![]() | RTDC is a dance-theatre company founded in 2001 by independent contemporary choreographer Ebru Aydar in Madison-WI /USA. Company members were local dancers, actors, visual artists, multimedia artists and musicians who combined individual artistic vision in order to send a message to an audience. RTDC was the first company in Madison-WI/ USA to use improvisation as a performance tool. RTDC’s work can be classified as dance theatre, performance art and post-modern dance. |
RTDC performed at Chicago
Links hall, and various performance spaces in Madison –WI/
USA such as Kanopy dance studio, Wendy Cooper gallery, Kings’
Foot gallery, Margaret D’Houbler performance space and
Oakwood village theatre. In 2002, The Company was invited to perform in
Madison international improvisational dance festivals. In May 2003,
artistic director and principal choreographer relocated to Chiswick/
London U.K. Since then company performed in Robin Howard Theatre,
Chisenhale Dance Space, Sadler’s Wells theatre, and Lillian
Baylis stage.
For more information about
RTDC and past performance videos can be obtained from RTDC web site www.randomtransformationsdance.org
“Aziyade”
by Pierre Loti
Aziyadé
is a dance theatre piece,
inspired by on 18th centuary French author’s book
Aziyadé which he described his experiences in a twisted love
triangle between himself an other man and beautiful harem girl
Aziyadé in 18th centaury Istanbul. Piece contains vivid
video images from Istanbul, authentic sound collages and text based on
the book.
About Aziyadé
(1879; also known as Istanbul-Constantinople) is a novel by
French author Pierre Loti. Originally published anonymously, it was his
first book, and along with Le Mariage de Loti (1880, also published
anonymously), would introduce the author to the French public and
quickly propel him to fame (his anonymous persona did not last
long).Aziyadé is semi-autobiographical, based on a diary
Loti kept during a 3 month period as a French Naval officer in Greece
and İstanbul in the fall and winter of 1876. It tells the story of the
27-year old Loti's illicit love affair with an 18 year old "Circassian"
harem girl named Aziyadé. Although Aziyadé was
one of many conquests in the exotic romantic's life, she was his
greatest love, he would wear a gold ring with her name on it for the
rest of his life. Forming a love triangle, the book also describes
Loti's "friendship" with a Spanish man servant named Solomon, for which
most critics believe, based on Loti's diary entries, that some sort of
homosexual affair occurred (indeed some believe Aziyadé
never existed and the entire work is a cover for a homosexual love
story, however the evidence for Aziyadé's existence seems
overwhelming, (See Blanch). It also describes Loti's love affair with
Turkish culture
which became a central part of his "exotica" persona.
Choreographer: Ebru Aydar
Dancers: 2 male and 1 female
dancer