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Bülbül Club

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Dates
18.10.2024 – 29.11.2024
Eine große Gruppe von Personen tanzt gemeinsam Kreistänze aus der Türkei und Griechenland.

Welcome to the Bülbül Club - a new meeting place for dancing together and dances from West Asia and North Africa. After an introductory workshop on a dance style, we dance together - like Bülbüls!

By and with Von Omar Mohamad & Irfan Genel
 

Special Edition – Halay Night – Hasaposerviko & Insel-Syrtos

Circle dances from Turkey and Greece

We will learn classic Halay steps during this evening; steps danced at every Turkish or Kurdish wedding. Also, we will introduce you to the damat halayı, originating in the Balkans as well as from other parts of Turkey, and a circle dance from the Black Sea region before practicing those dances with you. You will be given additional opportunity to acquaint yourself with two of the most common Greek dances: The hasaposerviko is among the most popular traditional dances in Greece, performed at festivities. The island syrtos is a circle dance that elicits excitement and fosters connection – it symbolises the unity, the joy, and the tradition found within the island communities.

You can take a deep dive into the world of Greek dance tradition while simultaneously preparing for any upcoming Anatolian festival in this Special Edition Bülbül Club. It is most essential to have fun together, dancing boundlessly in a circle for the evening – just like bülbüls!

Both the dancers themselves as well as the training coach of the Anatolian Dance in Düsseldorf Association (ATiD e.V.) will instruct the Halay Night / Turkish Circle Dances. ATiD e.V. was founded in 2003 and has a diversified membership. Among the dancers are students, apprentices, people from the workforce, and also parents. ATiD especially appreciates the vivid variety of cultures thriving in Turkey and the different dances that go along with this. Being different is expressly perceived as a boon and not as a threat in the team, too. We wish to enhance Düsseldorf’s urban culture with Anatolian dances.

The Greek circle dances are led by North Rhine-Westfalia based performer and choreographer Phaedra Pisimisi. Hasaposervikos carries musical and dance influences from a variety of Balkan people who came to Greece’s urban centres in the past to conduct business. Island syrtos is a traditional Greek dance common on many isles of both the Aegean and the Ionian Sea

With support from the Greek community of Düsseldorf.

Supported by the Alliance of International Production Houses; funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.