Troy Dance Show is between 24th April-29th May 2012 in Antalya Aspendos Arena!
Troy is as old as the stories in the
Sacred Book…Historical Ilion or “Wilusa” city, as called by the
Hittites, located in Hisarlık region of Canakkale and founded thousands
years ago has served as basis for many ancient myth… for one of the
oldest and most known stories of the history of humankind, where the
dreams and truth, science and utopia mixed into each other…
The western civilization is indebted its cultural inheritance to Troy
Myth but nothing else. This story, which was deemed as happened in 1180
BC, was again written to the memory of the humanity by an Anatolian
Poet. The story which had been written down by Homeros, born in Izmir,
in his immortal books of Iliada and Odysseia, had taken its place among
the most known compositions of world. Such that, it has an important
and effective place as much as all sacred books and was turned into a
mysterious adventure that made the history writers of all nations most
curious throughout the history.
The one who put the last point on this
curiosity, investigation and travels, containing a history of three
thousand years, and get Troy out to the stage of history again and made
the myth a real history was the German archeologist Heinrich
Schliemann. The treasures of humankind, which was found manually by
sheltering under the mysterious voices of rumors and taken out of the
country with great adventures were also turned into one of the basis
of contemporary archeology. What Schliemann has taught us is that : “The
voice coming out of the ruins is the voice of our own history”. The
ones who do not hear the voices of the history can not hear the voice of
future. Fire of Anatolia Dance Group is giving life to myth of Troy.
We are welcoming this immortal composition of history of art after three
thousand years in its Motherland. The illuminated city which
embellished the dreams of world leaders passing over the ages, from
Hittite King Tuthalia to Alexander the Great, to Caesar of Roman Empire;
from Persian King Kserkses to Constantine of Byzantine Empire, from
Sultan Mehmet, the Conqueror to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk…. The scream
rising from the ruins of Troy and the revival of a mystical dream of
3000 years…
From its Motherland to all humankind. Time in Troy, place in Troy, love and infinity in Troy …
A feverish work carried on under the shadow of lost myth, a history and musical revolt against a connivance history.
TROY IN FIGURES
- 150 light robots are being used,
- 150.000 watt energy is used at each show,
- 2000 costumes have been designed and tailored,
- 12.000 m. fabric have been used,
- 450 type of fabric have been used,
- 1200 m. bandage has been used for dancers,
- 3150 pcs of hairpins have been used for dancers’ hair,
- 32 large hangers,
- 7200 hours of total reheasal,
- 5400 beads have been used on costumes,
- 2.5 tons, the weight of costumes,
- 5400 hours, preparation of musics,
- 550 pcs of sketches for projection of images,
- 850 pcs headdresses, 300 pairs of shoes have been specially designed,
- 10 different costumes have been tailored in the costumes’ workshop,
- 200 pairs of dance shoes,
- 500 earrings and 500 necklaces,
- 500 bracelets have been used as accessories,
- 3000 gold coins have been used for fez,
- 2000 specially designed flowers have been used,
- 3500 make-up articles are being used,
- 2500 m. felt fabric has been exclusively woven in Ouzbekistan,
- 2000 m. Chiffon has exclusively been hand painted,
And A horse statue with 8 meters’ height.
