BElly DAncer

DIRECTOR_ CHOREOGRAPHER

with Taies Ferzan

A woman dances inside the gaze that consumes her.

Blending theatre, ritual, and dance this solo performance dismantles the fantasy of the “belly dancer” and exposes the machinery beneath it: the patriarchal and capitalist systems that eroticise, consume, and discard.

What happens when survival requires speaking the language of power?

What remains of oneself when the gaze never disappears?

Belly dancer is an invitation to listen to what the body remembers and to question what it means to look.

RUSALKA

CHOREOGRAPHER

STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN 2023

subj:medeA 2025

CO DIRECTION- MOVEMENT DIRECTION

with Ozlem Ozhabes

subj:medeA is a solo performance that reimagines the Medea myth through ancient fragments, modern testimonies, and personal reflections on motherhood, exile, and systemic failure. The work dismantles the monstrous image of Medea to ask what kind of world needs her — and what kind of world keeps abandoning women.

A broken chorus of voices—mythic, political, intimate—collides onstage. The narrator confronts the audience with the violence of blame: how women are made responsible for collapse, while deeper injustices remain buried, unnamed, intact.

Through chalk drawings, fabric, projection, and responsive audience input, subj:medeA unfolds as an embodied essay and a ritual of refusal—tender, furious, unresolved.

Part political investigation, part personal exorcism, this is Medea not as legend, but as a wound without closure: one that still reopens inside contemporary culture.