Participatory & Relational Performances

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We Were Never Meant to Survive

Performance Film, Istanbul (2023)

I created a container for consensual impulse exploration and choreographed the performance through simultaneous spoken guidance. This work was a pre-enactment of a death ritual between five women, exploring intimacy, care, and mortality. It included hyper-exposed material involving nudity and touch. Roles: Co-Director, Intimacy Coordinator, Choreographer

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Time To Kiss A Stranger

Participatory Performance, London (2024)

I designed encounters between audience members through a pre-recorded vocal score. The work explored momentary trust-building between strangers using carefully facilitated proximity. Participants interacted through non-verbal vocalizations, contributing to a shared soundscape that gradually transformed the atmosphere of the space.

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Pneuma

Participatory Performance, Tate Late x Royal College of Art, London (2023)

I invited audience members into one-to-one encounters through shared gaze and spoken oracle texts. The work explored the creation of temporary yet genuine encounters between strangers.

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Head to Head

Choreographic Performance, Istanbul (2022)

I choreographed this multi-body performance inspired by the re-enactment of a mythic upheaval state. Using embodied imagination and designed encounters as a guiding method, performers navigated themes of mortality and emotional vulnerability. Roles: Social Choreographer

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Enacting Ourselves

Public Performance, Istanbul (2023)

I invited a group of six citizen performers into a three-hour walk without verbal communication and asked them to arrive wearing costume elements representing underexpressed aspects of themselves. The work explored relational presence, self-expression, and the subtle shifts that occur when previously hidden qualities become visible in public space. The performance unfolded through silence, public visibility and encounters with others.

Workshops

Body as Battlefield

A workshop exploring desire, resistance, and decision-making through embodied exercises, speculative scenarios, and collective reflection.

Body as Erotic Site

A workshop exploring the erotic body as a site of sensation, boundaries, and relational awareness through movement-based practices, consent frameworks, and facilitated dialogue.

Social Dreaming Matrix

A facilitated group process using dreams as shared social material to explore collective themes, patterns, and emerging questions within groups and communities.