Turkish Dance Essay

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Since Queens College is celebrating the year Turkey, famous Turkish dancers were invited to come perform for us here at our school. I was only able to watch the first Turkish Contemporary Dance, Sek Sek, performed by Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli. From what I saw, compared to the American culture, the Turkish culture has a very different interpretation on what dancing is. Since Mustafa and Filiz’s dance is not common here in America, I didn’t know what to think of it at first. I kind of didn’t like it; it didn’t really look like a dance to me. But, I can’t really judge because it’s something that I’m not used to. The dance really didn’t go with the music, because the music was just a bunch of noises playing at different times. I felt as if there weren’t really a certain number of counts for each movement they did. It’s like they moved whenever they wanted to. I noticed that there is a lot of touching in the dance. Mustafa and his partner, Filiz, used their feet constantly whether to stay intertwined or to help each other move. Mustafa would be on the floor while Filiz was standing above him and he would use his legs to move hers to help her walk. Filiz stood on Mustafa for a good portion of the dance. She also would lie on top of him at some points. They kind of looked like animals because they walked on all fours. At one point they both had toothpicks in their mouth when they danced. That kind of had me on edge because it looked really dangerous to be dancing with sharp objects in their mouths, regardless whether they’ve practiced it numerous times before. I’m not sure if I understand the whole dance that they performed. It didn’t really make a lot of sense to me. All I know is that they did everything together (the same things), they moved together and also sung together. I think it was a good experience to watch another culture’s dance even

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