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Nebahat Erpolat

"Nebahat Erpolatis a Berlin & Melbourne based choreographer and performance artist who intersects various movement forms, both traditional and contemporary. Nebahat was born in Melbourne Australia and has a B.A in Political Science (1994-Montclair NJ/USA, 1995-Melb) and a Masters Qualifying in Research in Gender Studies at Monash University (1999-2000) and draws theoretically from her experiential training in Somatic Psychotherapy (2002 Australian College of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy (A.C.C.S.P). An independent choreographer, performer and writer, she creates works and projects in cross-disciplinary art forms encompassing film, photography, ecological, site-specific performance art, Installation, neo-Cabaret and dance movement: intersecting sound, film, voice, narrative and text.
what artists think in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
Nebahat Erpolat

The Body in The Raw

Stripping dance to the bare body itself, removes the unessential. This pricks me awake; it is as if bodies become piercing elements, like a spear. This rupture, stirs feelings through my own body, a body that exists and serves, based on codes and language. Read more...
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