Mehmet Sander’s work challenges people’s habitual ideas of what a dance should be like. Associating his pieces more closely to the fields of architecture and physics rather than performance and music, Sander’s dance is about movement, space and time, explored through collaboration with physical forces such as gravity, inertia and velocity. Sander’s work aims to provoke thought and push boundaries, reflecting reality rather than offering an escape from it.
This is an opportunity to hear Mehmet Sander discuss his inspirations such as the postmodern architecture of Louis Kahn, the art of Mondrian and Malevich, and composition by the likes of John Cage, as well as influential dancers such as Merce Cunningham and Jeff Slayton. Sander is in conversation with Dominic Johnson, artist, writer and Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.
