BILINGUAL TURKISH-GREEK PERFORMANCE
2021–ongoing
Türkiye, Greece
An idea by Mairi Pardalaki
Texts: Çağla Meknuze & Mairi Pardalaki
Based on publications by Matthias Kappler, Evangelia Balta, Anastasios Iordanoglou
Original music: Emre Malikler
Costumes: Dimitra Liakoura in collaboration with Katerina Momitsa and Atelier Tsiouni
Performers : Greece-Turkey Elina Demirtzioglou, Mairi Pardalaki
Performers: Greece Sevasti Zafeira, Marietta Manaroli, Katerina Gevetzi
Performers :Turkey Canan Yücel Pekiçten, Aslı Bostancı, Gizem Seçkin
Duration 35′
‘Dünya Maskara’ is a moving anthology, a bilingual turkish-greek
performance inspired by 19th- century songs and funeral inscriptions from
Istanbul, written in ‘karamanlidika’: a dialect and writing system of the
turkish language using the greek alphabet, common among the orthodox
population originating from Cappadocia.
Based on the linguistic proximity of the original archives, Turkish poet
Çağla Meknuze and choreographer Mairi Pardalaki create new bridges
between the two languages and juxtapose their feminist writing with the
themes of these archives: love, death, religion and the place of women
within them.
The 9 co-written new songs are interpreted by a group of performers
using spoken word and movement.
The performance is assembled between Greece and Türkiye, engaging the
artistic community in each country.
Performed at
Dance Days Cania (GR) / 2024
Dance Laboratory Rhodes (GR) / 2024
Istanbul Fringe (TR) / 2024
Hülya-Özdemir Nutku International Izmir Theater Festival (TR) / 2025
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