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l'enfant et les sortilèges
Opera by Maurice Ravel - UdK Production
musical direction: Errico Fresis
direction: Lars Franke
costume design: Lara Duymus
organizational costume partner: Felizitas Wiesner
stage design: Hyeonsu Jung und Helena Zaïda Schaber
choreography: Rose Calheiros
2023
blue monday
Opera by George Gershwin - UdK Production
musical direction: Errico Fresis
direction: Lars Franke
costume design: Lara Duymus
organizational costume partner: Felizitas Wiesner
stage design: Hyeonsu Jung und Helena Zaïda Schaber
choreography: Rose Calheiros
2023
birth of the new
2021
concept, costume and stage design
University of Arts Berlin MA Project
Performer: Elvan Tekin
TASK: The climate catastrophe has led to a division of the planet's surface into two zones. (The polar caps have melted):
A hot-dry zone and a hot-humid zone. Humans survive in the two zones through physical adaptation and/or adapted clothing. What might you look like?
MANIFEST:
Death of the World and death of the mankind was just a beginning for woman entering this World.
The woman who managed to survive with her strength and intellect on the land where she has always been the most oppressed and restricted...
We see her with her body, her gait and her costume that she has learned to fight in.
Doesn’t need to cover the body from the male dominated society. The female body is no secret to anyone. That's why she wears the first layer of her costume, the see-through bodysuit, with pride. This body suit is her second skin, fully covering the body and protecting her from the sun without the fabric becoming too heavy.
The costume carries with it water, minerals and oil, all of which are unchanging needs in a landscape that has been dry for centuries. This is done so in much more intelligently designed organic muscle masses that are distributed according to the
anatomy of the body. These muscles are placed on the body in such a way that they additionally emphasize the contours of the female body.
Yes, it (or she) is scary. Maybe because she is no longer the one who is afraid, but is the one who is feared.
A new breed, savage but intelligent.
Now more alone but dominating, ruler and queen.
sahmeran
2021
costume and concept design
bachelor graduation project
From the earliest ages onward, the snake has been seized as a significant symbol all around the globe while harboring various meanings, differing from culture to culture. Portraying both poisonous and medicinal properties, it possesses a duality that serves not only as a foe but also a friend for the mankind. For instance, the positive aspect of the snake still thrives clearly amongst medical symbols till this day.
During numerous centuries, the very same animal has been employed in mythologies belonging to different communities, polytheistic belief systems and monotheistic religions.
The story behind Shahmaran comes from such ancient mythologies and folk tales. The main theme of the tale is based on the everlasting major crimes of humanity which are betrayal and greed. Briefly the story unfolds as Cemsab being abandoned to death by his friends. This mortal and insignificant man then falls into Shahmaran’s realm but the ancient creature’s pity results in sparing the man’s life. Shahmaran also lets Cemsab live with her for many years. Finally, when Cemsab leaves the creature, he tells on Shahmaran to the Sultan whom shortly gets the creature cut into pieces.
Today, as mankind’s payback for his greed and betrayal to mother nature becomes gradually more visible to the eye, I chose to elaborate what Shahmaran had to go through, alike mother nature and the mother goddess -or even perhaps just like Medusa, Melusine, Ekhidra, Illuyanka... As I find dance a form of art that presents the possibility to depict the untold, what is hidden between the lines and complex emotions; this thought lead me to choose the disciplines of contemporary dance and performance art to portray the story of Shahmaran.
pagan queen
2019
costume and concept design for drag queen performance
For the show night “The Witch’s Revenge”,
organized by the queer feminist art collective Build
Your Tribe, I have come up with a performance idea,
accompanied by a costume design for the
performance artist / drag queen Akıska.
I have aimed that this costume came out as a critic to the notion of female-virginity and the false meaning that has been projected from undeveloped minds attached to it. Also a reminiscence of the killing and torturing of women over the plague of witch hunts. Furthermore, this costume stands as a large and solid criticism to all the labels about what a woman should be, which has come alive with the body of a drag queen.
My overall intention was to obtain the silhouette of a fearless,
modern witch.