Revisiting Trauma: Choreographing the Loss of the Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink

As a choreography of intervention into daily life, Mihran Tomasyan's Sen Balık Değilsin Ki (SBDK) allows viewers a moment not only to remember the assassination of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, but also to revisit past and current traumas that need to be reworked by Turkish and Armenian s...

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Published in:Dance chronicle 2019-09, Vol.42 (3), p.270-295
Main Author: Ersöz, Ayrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
artistic subjectivity
assassination
Assassinations & assassination attempts
choreographic objects
Choreography
Collective memory
Dance
Dink, Hrant
Hrant Dink
Journalists
journalists and danger
loss
memory
Sen Balık Değilsin Ki (SBDK)
Subjectivity
Tomasyan, Mihran
Trauma
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Summary:As a choreography of intervention into daily life, Mihran Tomasyan's Sen Balık Değilsin Ki (SBDK) allows viewers a moment not only to remember the assassination of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, but also to revisit past and current traumas that need to be reworked by Turkish and Armenian societies. I argue that the choreography of SBDK functions as a memorialization of a history of losses, using images and objects as guiding elements to trace the roots of the truth. Through their choreographic revaluation, the objects used in SBDK exceed their inherent functionality and gain new meanings marked by Tomasyan's subjectivity.
ISSN:0147-2526
1532-4257
DOI:10.1080/01472526.2019.1673112