***’LIVING’ PERFORMANCE Gallery -latest additions

Ziya Azazi – Gala Performance (with ADOB 2012), Ankara, Turkey.
This performance is a version of the solo called “Dervish in Progress”. The adaptation is done for the gala of Ankara State Opera & Ballet for the season of 2012-2013, on 29 September 2012 in Ankara/Turkey.
Ziya Azazi was born in Antakya, Turkey. He studied at Mining Faculty in Istanbul Technical University between 1986 and 1991, when he also studied gymnastics. From 1990 to 1994, he created his first choreographic works in the State Theatre of Istanbul. He worked with Tanz Atelier Sebastian Prantl (TAW), Tanz Hotel, and Willi Dorner between 1994 and 1998. Having put on stage his solo performance, “Unterwegs Tabula Rasa”, in Vienna in 1999, he was awarded with a scholarship by Summer Dance Week Vienna (Dance Web), and he was entitled “The Most Outstanding Dancer of the Year in Austria” by the Ballet International Magazine. Azazi started to explore the traditional dance of the Sufis in 1999. Choreographing this dance with different interpretations, he created his solo performances “Work in Progress I” (2001), “Work in Progress II” (2003). He continued to work with Vienna Volksoper, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, and Grand Théâtre de Genevre during those years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCSO-Qf0Yag

Sufi Whirling Dervish ‘Turning’
A way to come to inner stillness through movement is offered through the ‘Whirling Dervish Turning’ tradition. This is practised regularly following the authentic form originating in Turkey within the Mevlevi order of Dervishes founded by Jallaluddin Rumi in the thirteenth century.

Chongtul Rinpoche -“Lucid Dreams as a Bridge Between Realities” (September 2014)
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. By walking the line between the dream world and the waking world, we can train to access more of our own wisdom and our own consciousness. In this discussion, we learn about his mode of spirituality. Chongtul Rinpoche is a reincarnated Tibetan lama who grew up in India and studied philosophy for over 20 years. He was the director of a Bön monastery in India and now resides in America and gives various courses in Tibetan philosophy. In the US he founded a Bon educational fund that provides education and training for students of Tibetan philosophy around the world as well as for over 400 Tibetan orphan children living in India and Nepal. Bön is the indigenous religion of Tibet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=exjlR7izakg

Uldus Bakhtiozina, documentary photographer
https://www.ted.com/talks/uldus_bakhtiozina_portraits_that_transform_people_into_whatever_they_want_to_be/up-next#t-427251

https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_david_the_gift_and_power_of_emotional_courage
Susan David at TEDWomen 2017, “The gift and power of emotional courage”

“Love is the symphony of every beating heart. It is the divine music that whispers to us, in every moment of silence.
Silence is the most important and the most difficult discipline.”
“The Music of Silence” -biography of Andreas Bocelli
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3244786/videoplayer/vi1173272601?ref_=tt_ov_vi