Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu (Van Yüzüncü Yıl University): “Dramaturgical Practice in Dance is a Way to Break Stereotypes”
At the 15th International Conference on "Culture & Creativity" Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu (Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Turkey) is willing to share her experience in choreographic processes and explore how they deal with gender and race issues in dance. Referring to different dance productions, she focuses on the principal dramaturgical aim to break the orientalist, erotic, and exotic belly dance images and the related audience expectations. The scientist investigates different forms of creativity in movement and sound that enable us to show that “a different belly dance” is possible.
Since 2018 Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu, a performing arts scholar, who works as a pdramaturg in Berlin-based choreographer Tümay Kılınçel’s projects on belly dance, intertwins her academic research and creative work. Her dance experience and studies on the historical and socio-political contexts of dance in Turkey enable the scientist to check how a performance will work in front of an audience.
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