Heartquake

Heartquake is a choreographic exploration of living on unstable ground, both metaphorically and literally. Drawing inspiration from Turkey's political and geographical realities, it examines how "the land shapes the way its inhabitants think."

How do you envision a future when the ground beneath you is constantly shifting, altering your dreams and plans? In a land where ancient cities were destroyed by earthquakes, how can one build when everything seems destined to collapse? How can you trust institutions, structures built of concrete, when everything continues to fall apart? In these moments, what remains is the support we give each other and the relentless resilience of humanity. Perhaps this dynamic even offers an explanation for the prolonged presence of one political figure.

Anxieties are not merely born from political situations—perhaps all anxieties are inherently political. Corinth, the birthplace of Sisyphus, is one of the most seismically active regions in Europe, symbolizing the never-ending struggle between hope and destruction.

Ekin Tunçeli is a freelance dance artist who creates contemporary dance based productions with an understanding of interdisciplinary art design, blends familiar and unusual with using individual subjects, objects and popular images. Beside being choreographer, she is a contemporary dancer, singer, actress and performer. She has graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and has BA on Contemporary Dance from MSGSÜ State Conservatory in İstanbul which makes her creations both analytic and initiative. She organizes klank.ist impro improvisation meetings with klank.ist, a community working on interdisciplinary music projects, open to artists and disciplines from all disciplines.

She worked with Beyhan Murphy, TalDans, Clement Layes, Aslı Bostancı, Gizem Aksu, Fatih Gençkal, Harriet Plewis and worked in various musicals. She is a former chorus member of Bogazici Jazz Choir, still works there as choreographer and instructor. Her solo piece “ bir şey” is selected as Aerowaves Twenty20. She is currently having Choreography Master's in SKH (DOCH).