THE DERVISH

State Folk Dances Ensemble

Dance

Scriptwriter: Prof. Dr. İskender Pala
General Art Director: Ömer Faruk Belviranlı (GSGM Director General)
Art Direction and Staging: Yıldız Çankaya

The year, circa 1250. Anatolia is pillaged by Mongol raids and plunders and the whole region totters with social and political instability. This is a land of famine and drought, and Yunus Emre, the eye, ear, tongue, and heart’s bidding of Anatolian man, will come to the stage to tell his life story in three distinct phases.

His story begins as a simple Anatolian villager before he enters the Dergâh (Convent) of Taptuk. Once there, he will slowly but assuredly expand on his love for God and ripen his thoughts towards compassion, love, good deeds, and good morality. Through Sufism, he will reach a Sublime level of understanding of the world, which was born out of war and devastation, but now a reflection of the tremendous gyre of harmony put in place by God. With a broadened horizon and a deeper understanding of the ways of the world, order, and God, Yunus' world is now wrought by love, peace, and amity. We will listen to the hymns, poems, and folk songs that came from Yunus; see his troubles, suffering, and struggles until he finds the knowledge for God, which, he, with ease, passes onto us in our modern day, sharing the language of love, peace, compassion, and amity.

ACTORS
Yunus Emre: Poyraz Deniz Genç
Tabduk Emre: Kemal Topal
Composition / Musical Edit and Arrangements
Enver Merallı (GSGM Vice-Director General)
Aydın Sarman
Turan Sağer
Mustafa Sarıkaya

Soloists:
Ömer Faruk Belviranlı
Enver Merallı
Berk Özbek

Cinematography: Alper Kaya
Scenic Design: Özgür Usta
Costume Design: Gazal Erten
Light Design: Yıldız Çankaya
Dramaturge: Meriç Bardakçı
Chroeography: Yıldız Çankaya
Drama Trainer: İclal Karaduman

Répétiteurs: Gizem Yıldırım-Ceyhun Yıldırım-Ozan Pakkan-Canberk Şahanlar-Damla Şahanlar-Murtaza Yıldız- Funda Çatak- Azra Bölek-Zehranur Yüksel

Coordination: Murat Yener Yıldırım, Hasan Hüseyin Ülker
Stage Manager: V. Bora Kılınç, Burak Satır
Contributory Institutions and Organizations: Pera Fine Arts Academy-Kafkas Academy

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