August 9-10

Location: Scorpios Bodrum

In this site-specific performance experience by Operator, choreography is an instruction manual for forgotten circuitry, ancient patterns inscribed in the flesh. Rather than considering technology as something outside ourselves, this work recognizes the body as a formidable instance of technology. Through repetitive movement that borders on obsession, something begins to dissolve: the boundaries between here and elsewhere, self and other, audience and performer, boredom and revelation. The rhythmic architectures of sacred chant and Sufi sema music, rooted in spiritual entrainment through repetition, breath, and modal tension, are reimagined not as doctrine, but as sonic architectures for nervous system attunement. Woven together, movement and sound form a hybrid ritual system: drones and makams, pulse and posture, fabric and form, guiding the body toward trance not through belief, but through sensation. What emerges beyond the terror of staying still is an archaeology of presence, the body's hidden protocols activated: mirror neuron networks, autonomic regulation, collective neural entrainment.

In other words: become worse at being elsewhere.

Choreographer: Ania Catherine

Music: RYAT

Costumes: Don Aretino

Performed by dancers from Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası

Selim Cizdan

Ufuk Fakıoğlu

Halil İbrahim Akgün

İlayda ipekçi

Gizem seçkin

Diren ezgi Yıldızkan

Alara Erdem

2025