Netherlands 2012

This year in the framework of the 400 years celebration of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey, with the support of both the Dutch and the Turkish governments, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts(IKSV) will be organising a series of events in different cities of the Netherlands. IKSV is collaborating with several institutions in Netherlands for the coordination of these projects, which are events from different disciplines like music, jazz, film and dance.

SAY, I AM YOU - MEVLANA
Lucas Vis musical direction
Tessa Joosse filmmaker
VocaalLAB
Hezarfen Ensemble

1 June 2012, Rotterdam Operadagen
"Holland Premiere"
24 Haziran 2012, Hagia Eirene Museum
"Turkey Premiere"

Michael Ellison
Say I am You

The Rotterdam Operadagen Festival hosts the world premiere of "Say I am You", a contemporary musical play by the distinguished composer Michael Ellison, in a co-production with the Istanbul Music Festival to mark the 400th anniversary of the Netherlands-Turkey diplomatic relations. VocaalLAB Choir, Hezarfen Ensemble, Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson, Ekaterina Levental and Arnout Lems participate in this inspirational project, which throws the boundaries of theatrical, cultural and musical clichés aside while creating a lively theatrical immediacy in probing Mevlana's relationship with his mentor. Michael Ellison's unique musical language culminates in the powerful and absorbing work that blends the traditional with the contemporary in a refined sensitivity of classical manner. Telling a universal story from centuries ago, "Say I am You" also relates directly to the condition of the modern man and invites the audience to a unique and innovative experience. It will provide a meeting point, a forum, a creative nexus of attraction for visions in the 21st century culture that dare to create something not of the East nor from the West but simultaneously from and beyond both, addressing the eternal essentials of human existence: "You, the only one among all of them, say I am who? Say, I am you."

ARTISTS FROM TURKEY AT THE NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL
"Encounter Turkey"
Curated by Istanbul Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival
03-08 July 2012

3 July, Bimhuis, Amsterdam
Timuçin Şahin ile Eric Vloeimans ve Tyshawn Sorey

5 July, North Sea Jazz Roundtown Groundz, Rotterdam
Timuçin Şahin ile Eric Vloeimans ve Tyshawn Sorey
Ferit Odman Quartet ve Sean Jones
Baki Duyarlar Quartet ve Eric Vloeimans

6 July, North Sea Jazz Festival Yenisel, Rotterdam
Oğuz Büyükberber ile Simon Nabatov, Nils Wogram ve Tobias Klein
Hüsnü Şenlendirici ve Aytaç Doğan ile Dhafer Youssef Quartet

8 July, North Sea Jazz Roundtown Volga, Rotterdam
Erdem Helvacioğlu ve Per Boysen

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Netherlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. In the early days, the festival had six venues, three hundred artists and about nine thousand visitors. In this very first year of the festival, internationally renowned jazz legends performed, such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, as well as most Dutch avant-garde artists. In 2006, the festival moved to its current, bigger location in Rotterdam. The North Sea Jazz Festival is now considered among the biggest jazz festivals of the world.

The festival, which will be organized between the 6 and 8 July 2012 expects to host more than a thousand musicians, in more than 150 performances at thirteen different stages. With over 65,000 visitors, the festival still manages to retain its intimate character and offers a unique experience to visitors.

This year the festival will feature different musicians and bands from Turkey, showcasing a wide-ranging selection of contemporary Turkish music in the framework of the celebrations of 400 years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey. The participating artists will be selected in cooperation with the Istanbul Jazz Festival, İKSV. Special emphasis will be given to those artists and musicians fusing the tradition with modernity.

ARTISTS FROM TURKEY AT THE JULIDANS FESTIVAL

İlyas Odman ve Aslı Bostancı
06-07 July 2012, Podium Mozaek

Taldans
10-11 July 2012, Theatre De Melkweg

Julidans is an annual and highly acclaimed international contemporary dance festival, which takes place at various locations in Amsterdam during the first two weeks of July. The festival offers productions by established and upcoming national and international dancers who have theatrical choreographies in which dance and theatre, music and other disciplines merge. The festival also distinguishes itself by featuring a unique program of non-Western forms of contemporary dance from the Middle East, North Africa and China. Julidans 2012 takes place between Tuesday, July 3rd – Saturday, July 14th 2012, hosting different companies/artists at the Stadsschouwburg and other theaters in Amsterdam.

This year the festival will feature three dance companies from Turkey: İlyas Odman, Aslı Bostancı and Taldans. İlyas Odman is a dancer-choreographer who is searching for a unique expressionist physical theatre method. He combines methods from contemporary dance, acrobatics, as well as risk technique and gesture theatre in an attempt to create an artistic production closer to performance art than imitative/expressionist dance art. Born in 1984, Aslı Bostancı graduated from Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers in 2009 and continues to work for Michael Laub / Remote Control Company since 2010. Founded in 2003, Taldans, has been established in Istanbul by Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sızanlı. Kaplan and Sızanlı have created many independent and collaborative projects. Taldans was named after the Theater Research Laboratory (TAL) of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Theater in which a movement-dance research unit was established by Mustafa Kaplan. For their latest work, Taldans, the choreographic duo of 14 years, started to work with memory. Not “on” or “about” memory, but by using memory as a tool of exploration and a means that allows to revisit a past, a subjective as well as collective history.

At Julidans Festival, İlyas Odman will present his work "Oggi niente", Aslı Bostancı "in between" , along with Taldans which will perform “Eskiyeni”.

The performances will take place in the framework of the celebrations of the 400th year of the diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey. The participating artists have been selected in cooperation with the Istanbul Theater Festival, İKSV.

TURKEY - HOLLAND CO-PRODUCTION MEETINGS, PANELS AND A FOCUS ON TURKISH CINEMA
27 September - 1 October 2012, Utrecht

Opening reception: Restaurant Zindering, Stadschouwburg
Co-production panel: The Festival Pavilion, Neude Square
Co-production Meetings: Grand Hotel Karel V
The Cinema Militans Lecture: Blauwe Zaal, Stadschouwburg

Within the framework of the 400th anniversary celebrations of the diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey, the Istanbul Film Festival’s “Meetings on the Bridge” and the Netherlands Film Festival’s “Holland Film Meetings” decided to dedicate their co-production meetings and panels to respective countries. With the purpose of encouraging co-productions and enhancing cultural relations between film producers from the Netherlands and Turkey, several events will be hosted and presented between 27 September and 1 October 2012. The Netherlands Film Festival’s country focus will be Turkey at the Holland Film Meetings. For this reason the director of the Istanbul Film Festival Azize Tan, Head of Meetings on the Bridge Gülin Üstün, and the producers and directors of 3 pre-selected film projects will be joining the Holland Film Meetings at the Festival Pavilion. During the opening reception, which will be hosted by the Istanbul Film Festival, a wider audience will have the chance to meet producers from Turkey. The last 5 years of the film industry and conditions of production in Turkey will be discussed at the panel, which will be attended by various managers from institutions and producers from Turkey. The renowned Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu will be the guest speaker of the Cinema Militant Lecture accompanied by a screening selection of his films.

NETHERLANDS 2012

Netherlands 2012