heartquake / Ekin Tunçeli
Saturday, 20 June, 2026 @ 18h - Les Subs
Performance
45 min
Les Subs
heartquake is a choreographic work about living on shaky ground, both metaphorically and literally. Inspired by Turkey’s political and geographical realities, the piece focuses on the idea that “the land shapes the inhabitants’ way of thinking” and evolves from a local ground into a global reflection on how we inhabit instability and precarity.
How can you imagine a future while shakes constantly change what you dreamed of? In a land where people grow up hearing ancient cities have been destroyed by earthquakes, how can you build something when you know it’ll eventually be demolished? When everything keeps falling apart, what is left other than each other’s support and the endless effort of human beings?
Corinth, the homeland of Sisyphus, is one of the most seismically active places in Europe.
Ekin Tunçeli is a choreographer and performer who seeks ways to translate embodied experience into artistic forms and multilayered, poetic, landscape-like moments. Placing the body at the core of her artistic research, she explores its expressive, political, and perceptive dimensions.
Holding degrees in Medicine and in Contemporary Dance and Choreography, she combines analytical precision with creative intuition. Alongside creating her own works, she has performed with artists and companies such as Zak Valenta, Trafik Dance Theater, Beyhan Murphy, Taldans, Clément Layes, Fatih Gençkal, Gizem Aksu, Aslı Bostancı.
Her solo “bir şey” was selected as part of Aerowaves Twenty20. She received the #KültürdeKadınGücü grant, and her work thinkerbell was presented at the WOW Istanbul Festival by the British Council (2021). Ekin recently completed an MA in Choreography at SKH (DOCH), Stockholm, supported by a full tuition scholarship (non-EU student).
Ekin Tunçeli
Choreography Ekin Tunçeli, Dance Barış Diker, Gizem Seçkin, Diren Ezgi Yıldızkan, Sound: including tracks from various artists: Ah! Kosmos, Ekin Tunçeli, Cucina Povera & Haron, Dinamarca ,Supervision: Jennifer Lacey, Stina Nyberg Sound Supervision: Barış Bingöl Costume: Mert YemenicioğluLight Design: M.Ali Dönmez
Special thanks to MAKOR people & Jennifer Lacey, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, Zorlu PSM, Halil İbrahim Aygün, Büşra Tuna, Ufuk Fakıoğlu, Melih Kıraç, Beste Demir, Martin Siewke; ÇATI Dans, Zeynep & Irmak Kuyumcu, KHAS Film ve Drama, MSGSÜ Modern Dans ASD., Akbank Sanat, Exanimo house, Güneşülkesi Sanat for studio support.