Audra's been kind enough to point out that Fire Of Anatolia will be coming to town!

As always, please direct any comments, questions, or reservations to the Man About Town post.

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THE RIVER THAT FLOWS TOWARDS ITS ESSENCE

While Isadora Duncan was creating her dance theory she was looking towards the Aegean while that Irish lady who lived in America, was going to and fro from east to west, there was only a little time to end the most magnificient period of classical ballet.The rebellion that she felt deep inside herself at the beginning of the previous century, found its historical description on the land where we live now.

It was oneiric blue journey. She pricked up her ears to Dionizos - the god of law, wine, passion, freedom, fertility – to see the dance of the civilization in Mediterranian, while she was saying ‘Dance is to reach Dionizos’ she was going round the Aegean islands, and was observing the historical figures, listenning the magical invitation of the dance. She was trying to be inspired with the remnants of ceremonies made for Dionizos. She had seen that the first codes, figures and rhythms of the physical freedom had been created in this region, and rich geography whose essence is Anatolia.

Hers was a flow of dreams for sure, but she was on the right way. Perhaps ,everyone after her was searching a piece of Isadora in his own dance steps.And now like a river flowing to its essence, may be going through Isadora’s footsteps with the view of the god emperor of Nemrut, Antiakos and the call of Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Mediterrenian – we want to create the dance of passion, ambition, enthusiasm and peace - in the land where the first flame was created, the first wheel turned.

Ours is the same road but the this time the river is flowing to its essence. We find the figures of satires and sirens in rituals of Dionizos, in folk dance steps. We are trying to see our land by feeling 3 thousand year old Eagean dance figures’ warmth. We are after a very strong emotion, a diffrent line.

We want the dance of Turkey.


Venue: Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088

Date & Time: Wed 26 - Fri 28 Apr 2006 (Wed: 9pm; Thu & Fri: 8.30pm)

Tickets: RM362/ RM312/ RM262

Ticket Contact: Axcess: 603-7711 5000 or any Axcess outlet

Synopsis: The Fire of Anatolia (previously called Sultans of the Dance) is a dance and rhythm performance, based on thousands of years of ancient Anatolian mythology and cultural history.

The performance comprises of hundreds of folkdance figures and music from almost every region of Turkey. It is an original Anatolian dance which brings together the traditional and the modern.