Videodance | Kineo Dergi

Videodance
14 November, Friday: 7pm - 7:45pm
15 November, Saturday: 5pm - 8pm
SAHA Studio

Within the scope of SAHA Writing Series, Kineo Dergi, supported by SAHA in 2025, will be presenting a screening program at SAHA Studio on 14–15 November 2025.

Program:
14 November Friday, 7pm- 7:45pm
Özlem Alkış, Vlaic Golcea - Railway
Mustafa Kaplan - İP/2
Canan Yücel Pekiçten - Necromancy
Aslı Melissa Uzun - ich durch dich (video letter)
Mustafa Kapla - DANCERS
Marit-Shirin Carolasdotter, Melisa Dikta - No friends but the Mountains
Minna Elif Wendin, Johan Kuurne, Patrick Rydman - Nokta
Seçil Demircan - HOME WITHIN
Aydın Teker - Baba Dansı
Aslı Melissa Uzun - ben de, bi'bakıma
Ayşe Orhon, Gülsün Orhon - 38-40

15 November Saturday, 5pm- 8pm
Ami Skanberg - Ancestor
Taldans - VICTORY OVER THE SUN
Aydın Teker - Renewal
Özlem Alkış, Neo Hülcker - Dog Park
Aryan Zolfaghari - PROJECTS NO.5: METRO/DRESSAGE
Melih Kıraç - Pureland
Jasmin İhrac - Constant changes silent witnesses
Gizem Seçkin - The Undeniable Existence of Memory
18:15 - 18:30 Break
Canan Yücel Pekiçten - Kol Olmak
Michael Maurissens - [Ma] The Space in between
Gizem Aksu - 9/8FIGHT41
19:10 - 19:25 Break
Talk

"Videodance is a genre that moves the camera beyond being merely a recording device, positioning it instead as one of the active agents of choreography, while also making full use of the possibilities of editing. In addition to the technical capacities of the video medium, it opens up a distinctive field of expression by internalizing the conventions and aesthetic norms of all forms that have emerged around video and film , such as news, music videos, documentaries, cinema, and motion graphics.

While working on Atlas of Lost Sentences, a body of work by Mustafa composed of multiple video pieces that at times take the form of videodance, documentation, or video art; we became curious about similar productions by other dancers in Turkey. The idea came to mind to organize a screening composed of videos created by dancers, but which are not recordings or documentations of dance performances. I knew that what we wanted to watch were not films that would typically be classified within contemporary or visual art frameworks such as video art or video installations -even though many of them could fit those definitions. The range I had in mind was, in a way, both broad and narrow: yes, we were talking about videodance, but it had to be made by dancers. Dancers had a distinct perception of space, body, and time; and a language of their own, different from that of visual artists.

We decided to invite dance artists and create a platform to present videodance works produced within the discipline of dance."

Mustafa Kaplan & Ekmel Ertan