En Danseuse - Filiz Sizanli

En danseuse is a piece of work choreographed, based on a creative  process that focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series  of collaborations of Alain Michard with several choreographers from  different generations, and varied backgrounds led to the birth of this  piece, a ‘collection of dances’ with scenography using sound and video.

En danseuse is made of a scenographic installation which combines images  of dance and sounds. Is it thought of as a confrontation between two  choreographical forms, but also between two memories. It offers to  audiences several ways of looking at the work, and appeals to their own  memories of dance.

En danseuse is based on the idea that the body of the choreographer is  the very source of their work, and carries within himself/herself a true  History of dance. Vast and unique, this dance History is made of dances  which have been lived, but also dances that have been seen or dreamt,  and of everything that has fit in with ‘choreographic material’.
En danseuse questions the role of images, and how they are active both in memory and in the choreographic gesture.

Filiz Sızanlı graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at  Istanbul Technical University, in 1997. In 2000, she was one of the  co-founders of the Çatı Contemporary Dance Artists Association with a  collective of artists. In 2003, she founded Taldans Company with Mustafa  Kaplan. Between 2001-2005, she worked with Mathilde Monnier at CCN de  Montpellier. She taught at Anadolu University State Conservatory Theatre  Department, and at the Eskisehir City Theatre. Since 2017, she has been  teaching at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory  Contemporary Dance Department where she had her MFA diploma in 2020.