WEST MEETS EAST 2023

Dilek Üstünalan

Felix Arjona

Dancer and choreographer. Contemporary and contact improvisation dance teacher (CI). Yoga instructor. Gestalt and movement therapist.
In 2004 he began his 3-year training at the Andalusian Dance Center. In 2006 he obtained a scholarship at Endanza, Seville, and in 2007, he moved to Berlin to continue his training at TanzAkadamie Balance 1.
Since 2011, he has activated Contact Improvisation in Seville and participates as a teacher in festivals, meetings, educational centers in Europe and Latin America, such as the Pablo Olavide University (MAES and Master of Art Therapy), the Cías. DanzaUna and Danza Abierta at the University of Costa Rica, Desert Contact Almería, Asturias Contact Festival, Contact & Flow Andalucía, Cardedeu Contact Festival, SOMA & Play 2019/20/21/22, and has taught the training course 'Contact Improvisation Methodology' for students and teachers (CEP), of the Professional Conservatory of Seville 'Antonio Ruiz Soler' (2019). Félix is currently working on the Solo ‘LENTO’, which has been shown at the ‘Me, Myself & I’ Contest organized by the ‘Paso a 2’ Association, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid.

Félix is the founder, organizer and teacher together with the dancer and choreographer Dasha Lavrennikov of ‘SOMA&Play. Research and creation through movement, contact, and improvisation’ 2019/20/21/22.
He is also the founder of ‘CI Formación Andaluza’, the first CI education in Andalucía since 2020.

Website SOMA&Play somaandplay.weebly.com/
Website Felix Arjona: felixarjona.com/

Tamara Maksymenko

Tamara Maksymenko is a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher of contact improvisation and contemporary dance for 17 years already. She has been teaching many workshops all over the world (Poland, Spain, Israel, Austria, Italy, Greece, Finland, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Morocco, Bulgary, Sweden, Portugal, France, Turkey). She is the founder of Motion Mode Dance Theatre (MMDT) and the creator of many dance projects.
28 years of dance experience (since the early age of 4). She got medical education in body therapy and sociology at Dnipropetrovsk National University and trained at the Physical Theatre in Intragna (Switzerland) with Thomas Mattler.

Now Tamara is a member of Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform Association and she is a member of OFFTANZ Tirol Association (Austria). The founder of "Solo & CI Tirol Festival" and "West meets East".

Emin Durak

Having received five years of Capoeira training from Brazilian Mestre Kiura, Emin develops techniques for movement improvisations, synthesizing contemporary and “non-contemporary” dance performances, workshops, films, sound-based works, installations, situations and research projects. He shares and publishes his artistic works and research projects under the umbrella of his newly found company: Sphinx Dance.

Emin has collaborated with different contemporary dance artists such as Moa Westerlund, Sebastian Lingserius, Peter Mills and Cristina Caprioli. His works were shown in different venues such as Dansenshus, Moderna Dans Teatern, R1 Nuclear Reactor, Weld and CCAP in Stockholm, Skogen in Gothenburg, Borderland in Denmark, and Refugio in Berlin.

Sveta Bird

Sveta Bird is a professional dancer, performer, choreographer, dance teacher, organizer of dance festivals and workshops of CI and everything around CI. She has been dancing since childhood and for the last 18 years she has been living in exploaring Contact Improvisation, sometimes looking into other body-oriented practices.

Vegetarian & Traditional Options

Turkey is famous for its cuisine and food culture. The Land camp prepares delicious vegetarian Turkish food (breakfast and dinner). If you are a carnivore - you are welcome to order a meat dish for an extra 5 euros per meal.
*You can do on the spot.