EL Z G

06’56, Germany, 2021

Concept, choreography and performance: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Directing: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Deren Ercenk, Camera: Ronny Heimann, Deren Ercenk, Editing: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Music: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Music-Mastering: shordeli (Bryan Shortell)

EL Z G is an attempt to capture the nature of a cultural shaped and established dance phenomenon. The video work is a distillation of the folk dances and music of Turkey’s Elazig area in East Anatolia. The (Halay) dances on which this project is based are transferred into an artistic-performative format and downscaled to their essential features. This interpretation renounces the force of group dance energy, the variety of colorful traditional costumes and the auditiv dominance of live instrumentation to enable a different perspective on this specific materiality of movement.

Dilan Ercenk-Heimann was born in Cologne in 1980 and is a choreographer, dancer, performance-artist, dance-teacher and one of the co-founders of POGOensemble. A multiple award-winning dance collective based in NRW. Awarded at the Choreography Competition Ludwigshafen, nominated for the Cologne Dance Price, chosen as “Young Choreographer To Watch” by the Ballett Tanz magazine and invited to the aerowaves touring program for young choreographers.

The film will be part of the screening on 28.10.2022, 18:30-20:00, Festival and Congress Centre – Varna.