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SUMMARY:Movie night and artist talk with Leyla Toprak (TR)
DESCRIPTION:Weld  has invited the Kurdish artist Leyla Toprak for a screeni
 ng and a talk about her artistic practice. In the evening two of her short
  films are screened followed by a talk together with- and translated by th
 e artist Savas Boyraz and moderated by Ola Saleh\, project manager at the 
 organization Kvinna till kvinna.\n\nLeyla Toprak is a dancer and choreogra
 pher that recently started to use the medium of film to tell stories about
  people under political oppression. At the same time\, the dance is presen
 t with its historical layers in its ritualistic and collectivistic qualiti
 es.\n\nIn one of her movies\, she returns to the folk dance tradition as a
  cohesive carrying force\, were its rhythmical moves together with song is
  used as a tool for surviving. Her artistic practice reacts and interacts 
 with the political issues that surround her and the dance is always presen
 t.\n\nAs many artists\, she is interested in art as historiography and tim
 e document and to find alternative ways for problem definition\, resistanc
 e\, and action.\n\nDistant (2015) is filmed in the Syrian city Kobane\, th
 e days after it was liberated from Daesh by the Kurdish peshmerga-guerilla
 . In a ravaged landscape two female YPG-warriors are interviewed about the
 ir identity and their rebellion against the society that has ignored woman
 ’s historical values in dominant social narratives for thousands of year
 s. How they have chosen to become fighters and what warfare is for them. I
 n the ruins\, there is a glimpse of a dancing body\, as a life that used t
 o be\, or as a hope for a new life and future to come.\n\nThe documentary 
 short film Red Handkerchief (2015) tells the story about five Kurds that w
 ere sentenced with 14-25 year long imprisonments in their twenties. Today 
 free\, they tell about how they survived abuse and torture through the Kur
 dish collective folk dance\, ”Govend”. The dance that gave them courag
 e and kept their spirits up and that made them organize.\n\nLEYLA TOPRAK\n
 is a dancer/choreograph\, born in Istanbul.\n\nShe took part in the artist
 ic activities of modern dance collective Mesopotamia Dance\, in Istanbul b
 etween 2003 – 2013. In 2014\, she graduated from Performing Arts Departm
 ent at Istanbul Bilgi University.\n\nCurrently studies her Masters at Cine
 ma studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. She wrote\, choreographed and dir
 ected several performances and short video works.
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