ARUCAD Lecturer Bekir Şimşek Participated in the Kick Off Intensive Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival

Bekir Şimşek, Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD), participated in the Kick Off Intensive Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, held in Ankara on Saturday, 18 October. As part of the festival, Şimşek led a contemporary dance workshop and performed his piece entitled “The Room in My Head”.

Organised by Highest Funk Dance Collective under the leadership of Buğuhan Akbulut at Kült Teras, the festival brought together different approaches to movement in contemporary dance, processes of physical exploration and stage productions. As part of the festival’s workshop programme, Bekir Şimşek led a session focusing on movement research and forms of physical expression, creating a space for participants to share and experience different movement practices.

In the festival’s performance programme, Şimşek presented his piece “The Room in My Head”, bringing together the creative production and staging processes of contemporary dance.