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Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası
SATURDAY 22 MARCH 2025 19.00 AT ATALANTETICKETS HERE

You chose your seedling, decided on a good place for it, prepared its soil, watered it for the first time, turned your back and walked away, days passed, perhaps weeks, the rains came, and then snow, winds blew, every now and then you came and checked, it had grown to your height, it had held up well, its roots could sink as deep as eternity, then came spring and then came summer, the sun rose, the moon set, Venus came up, you were already dead, who knows where your  

grandchildren woke up, some had departed, those who arrived had departed from  other places, it didn’t work out, some things went wrong, the tree grew, there used to  be one house in the distance, then there were three, then five, then five hundred,  murders took place in its shade, and of course, some kissed, too, some never realized it  stood there, and some gave it water. 

 

Then they chopped it down. 

And thank goodness for that because the pavement needed widening.

This performance was constructed upon a misunderstanding of the world, humanity,  mountains, the earth and the sky. It has absolutely nothing to do with the tree  mentioned above. The performance is interested in knowing where the grandchildren  wake up. 

Concept Development and Performance: Mihran Tomasyan - Saro Usta

Lighting Design: Cem Yılmazer, Yasin Gültepe, Utku Kara

Lighting: Utku Kara

Sound Technician: Berkant 'Doktor' Kılıçkap

Teaser: Muhtar Pattabanoğlu

Photo: Engin İriz, Mustafa Erdoğan

Poster Design: Alican Tezer

A dream country, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası was founded in 2003, in Istanbul’s vibrant neighborhood Beyoğlu, made up mostly of dancers with contemporary backgrounds. Since its founding, they have valued production through sharing and have achieved forming their own language. Over time, this production expanded through forms of body, movement, shows and workshops, earning the Company not only its own audience but also help enlist new amateur and professional dancers into the field. 

Mihran Tomasyan started dancing with folkloric dances. During his high school  years at Getronagan School, his interest in performing arts was triggered upon  watching “Kim O?”(Who’s That) by KUM,PAN,YA. He continued Modern Dance  Department at Mimar Sinan Universtiy (1997-2001) and then went to Angers, France to  study at Centre National de Dance Contemporain (2001-2002). In 1999, he performed  with Rebecca Lazier in the USA and Canada. In 2000, he worked with Yard Dance  Group at Martha’s Vineyard Island and in the same year, he performed at New York  Downtown Festival with the works they developed in the Island choreographed by  Edissa Weeks. 

Between 2002 and 2007, he worked as a dancer at Cie Cre-Ange in Paris. He  performed in various shows such as Go baby go, I wanna be your dog, Man and Ray,  Favorite Things, Embreasse- nous, L’encontre, and Piece a Conviction. Besides these  works, he continued performing for internationally acclaimed companies and  choreographers such as As Palavras in Belgium, Sasha Waltz in Germany, Da Motus in  Switzerland, Association YMA in France and Aydin Teker and Tugce Tuna in Turkey. 

 

He choreographed Mehmet Barış’ı Seviyor (Mehmet Loves Peace, 2005) at Çıplak  Ayaklar Kumpanyası which he co-founded in 2003. With this show, the company  performed countless times and acquired a strong ground within Turkey’s contemporary  dance scene. In 2007, the company opened up their own studio venue at the heart of Istanbul and Mihran  has focused his energy to produce works under Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası. He created pieces performed  

several times like Ters Okyanus, Sen Balık Değilsin Ki, Hayat Ağacı, Gomidas’la Yolculuk, Tüh, Her An Her Şey  

Olabilir, and Sar”. Since 2012, with his colleague Duygu Güngör, he has been hosting a radio program titled Dance with Çıplak Ayaklar at an independent station called Açık Radyo.  Based in Istanbul, Mihran continues to work as a dancer,  

instructor, studio manager, choreographer and producer.

Saro Usta, after graduating from the Private Getronagan Armenian High School, completed his education by graduating from Istanbul University, Department of French Language and Literature. He discovered his interest in music, especially Armenian music, in the  backstage of the Sayat Nova Choir, in which he was born and raised since his  childhood years.He started to play the accordion with the lessons he took from Edvard  Aris and Hagop Pakyüz.Again, he developed his Armenian music repertoire in the choir  backstage and in various association environments. 

 

In the following years, he played the accordion at Boğaziçi University Folklore Club and  Kardeş Türküler concerts and worked in the organization teams of the concerts. In  2012, he founded the Vomank band with his friends with the aim of adding a new  quest to traditional Armenian music. He released two albums with the Vomank band,  played synthesizer and designed electronic infrastructures in this band. He took part in  different album recording works with Arto Tunçboyacıyan and took part in the  recording of Tayis Yıldızcı's Chronicles album. While working as a stage manager and  production supervisor at Zorlu Performing Arts, he decided to move abroad and  currently continues to work on the production side of performing arts in France. Since 2016, he has been continuing the Armenian music program Jirayr'ın Walkmani  (Jirayr'ın Walkmani), which he has been preparing and presenting with Vartan Estukyan  at Açık Radio. He has been working with Mihran Tomasyan and Çıplak Ayaklar Dance Studio since  day one.

RADIX is supported by The City of Gothenburg Arts and Cultural Affairs Committee and The Region Västra Götaland Cultural Affairs Committee​

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