Horizontal and vertical migrations
The research took its velocity through a reaction, a question, on freedom since travelling and migrating is not allowed to one of the makers who is precluded to cross European borders where she has been denied a visa multiple times. The desire to respond to this situation with an artistic and metaphysical elaboration results in the interaction of performers with beamer and livestreamed projections from Istanbul. Therefore, the research evolved into a philosophical approach where freedom is not something that can be taken away, or given, it is present at all times. It's the structural integration of the body and mind to the present moment and situation. This thinking feeds and aligns the performative expressions of the dancers, expanding towards a collective balancing and harmony. By researching on neo spiritualist philosophy we identified two migrating axes, transmitting a meaning of inner, individual and communal evolution of body and spirit. These axes are materialised as the horizontal, travelling through materiality, and the vertical which is ascending towards spiritual contemplation. In order to organise the body in relation to these two axes, we took inspiration from Ida Rolf’s structural integration research that focuses on physical elaboration of universal laws. After reading about “Structural Integration” one could claim that human evolution (physical, spiritual and intellectual) is interlinked with verticality or in other words, connected to the appropriate relationship oneself has with gravity. And similar to neo spiritualist approach, the horizontality is always in relation with verticality. Therefore to evolve to a mature understanding of the body and its manifold possibilities, a movement artist requires refined kinetics that express the unified coordination of vestibular, somatosensory and muscular systems. These basic underlying patterns govern our being and are in correlation with the external force of gravity. With this fact in mind, the act of being is more closely connected to the idea of balancing segments, rather than stabilising. This approach results in an unfolding of possibilities, which are already inherent in the human organism. That connects to the starting point of the concept where freedom is not something that can be taken away or given, but its present at all times. It is ours to organise the situation, the body and mind, from the individual to collective. All happenings, all migrations moving on earth, all thought migrations in mind, serves a purpose, and it's interconnected at all times.
Chaos is a part of harmony.Therefore there is no unnecessary process on this earth. All have a duty, all serve a purpose and it's there for us to read. To see. To feel.
Photo gallery
Garage Rotterdam
Festival Anima Flegrea in Monte di Procida, Naples
TIME WINDOW, ROTTERDAM
who are we
who are we
Ay Avec Toi is a multidisciplinary artistic research collective. Founders of the collective are Noemi Calzavara from Italy, Siva Meryem Canbazoglu from Turkey and Claudio Maria Silvia Murabito. Besides the central orbits, one of the values of the collective is gathering artists from around the globe, from different disciplines and different realities to a shared research, a creation, and a presentation of the work in whichever form it may take. This value touches the vital need to unify, to be working as a unit. While individualism is rising on social ground as well as the political opposite polarities. Reminding ourselves, as well as our spectator that everything in our reality is interconnected at all times. Because reality likes to connotate, even though things that seem completely irrelevant from each other, are a connotation of each other. Through direct, or indirect relations. In our methodology, we research these connotative reactions, crystallised on a subject matter.
Since March 2021, we have been part of -Ijzerblok Studios- a research collective based in Coolhaven, Rotterdam. Where we conduct our research, organise open studios, classes, performances and collaborate with other members of the Ijzerblok artists.
Our first piece WHO ARE YOU? was created for the platform of Capta laVie.
Our last piece, Vertical and Horizontal Migrations premiered in ‘Anima Flegrea Festival della Cultura e della Danza’ a festival held in Italy.
Afterwards was curated in a performative exhibition form, for the Garage Rotterdam Art Gallery.
The central medium is movement since all the core members by origin are dancers-choreographers. But to express and materialise a complex topic, there comes the need to enrich, layer and support the work through different disciplines, and understandings.
The research, and the creations are influenced by metaphysical concepts. Neo-spiritualism being the main source, since it gathers all the history of spiritual knowledge under one roof. Through poetry, we translate these intangible findings to choreographic narratives.
poetry loogbook
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poetry loogbook 〰️
LAYER-1
Why? Because of its habitat
The words that are losing it sense
And the essence
Then a candle lit
And the light did came
And the things came to be
Because of chaos
The harmony
It's a rainy day on the cosmic shore
The sound of swallows and a approaching storm
Just before
Is gone
And it just is.
The way it is.
No longer illions in power
And a way leads the chaos to light and for the light.
For the unity
From the unity
Golden beings, attached with golden strings
LAYER-2
It shattered with an endless fall then went in multiple spatial extremities
From an impact to the crash
And arrival and a departure
For a sun so bright
For a candle light that illuminates the hearth
For a eternal heart that sees the tiny light and turns it into a sun
So bright
And once the rays of that sun touched our home
And once the sun exploded from the hearths
A habitat grow full of extraordinary skies
All at once
All in unity
All in matter, yet the invisible will suddenly appear
LAYER-3
For a freedom that is neither to take or to give
A ray of inspiration burns the candle flame
Thought the inner gaze the candle flame expands to a sun
Shows a way
Is the way, is the way, is the way
The light so bright that burns the fabric of the reality
Leaves an empty space to a
Matter so refined, true
The words with an eternal strata, and stories to unfold
A sun so bright
A heart so light
An a tear that runs down
The smile from a gaze of gold
A bird that flies
A golden string appears at a summer sky
The warmth of unknown
Fleeting floating earth
The way doesn't pass through the earth,
The way fluctuates spiralling out as golden beams
Golden beings attached with golden strings
And the freedom isn't mine to take or to give
And it isn't mine to win
But the smile is mine to give
While the symbols of unimaginable things appears to be
The Letter, The İnitiation, The Start
I'd like to share a few thoughts with you. Through the tongue of my dear friends, colleague's, atoms.
Firstly, a poem, which was written on the night of my first visa decline.
*This is isn't mine to win,
and it was never mine to say anything.
But I will say it anyway
With a burning heart, a clear mind,
A clear water
with a mud settled
Down,
Up,
All around,
Re*defining meanings
Re*organising matter, influences....
Re*thinking values
The values that are preventing the world fucking collapsing on our head.
And this battle is so much bigger than me. Or anyone around me.
But with the unity, and as a unit,
I'm so hopeful, and wishful
2 actually create something that no matter what is it,
It stands on a certain polarity in reality.
Freedom is not something that can be taken away, or given.
It is present at all times.
So now,
A gentle fight with art
With intellect
With movement
With joy
With pain
With a lot of tears
And even more laughter*
Here I am, we are, a year later, with another organisation of mind, of body. To see the pathway, in an observative state.
The research took its velocity through a reaction, a question, on freedom. On movement, on what makes one move, to where and what for. This inner existential quest to evolve the being, therefore the spirit brought me to a space where the initial reaction to the problems on visa, on politics, the anger and sadness are no longer. a new vision in chaos,
to exist in it, and find pathways on it, which shattered and expanded to multiple spatial extremities. The video projection is a vision of this chaos, of being in no time and space, but still, it finds its place. All happenings, all migrations moving on earth, all thought migrations in mind, serves a purpose, and it's interconnected at all times. Chaos is a part of harmony.Therefore there is no unnecessary process on this earth. All have a duty, all serve a purpose and it's there for us to read. To see. To feel. To love.