The three-thousand-year-old legend of Troy takes the stage at Istanbul AKM
The Anadolu Ateşi Dance Company, which promotes Turkey to the world through dance by synthesizing folk dances with ballet, modern dance and other disciplines of dance, continues to bring the legend of Troy to life. The "Troya" show, which brings the 3,000-year-old legend together with eastern and western cultures, will be staged on 19 January at Istanbul Atatürk Cultural Center. Tickets for the magnificent show have gone on sale on Biletinial, Turkey's event ticketing platform.
Anadolu Ateşi Dance Ensemble, which synthesizes folk dances with ballet, modern dance and other dance disciplines to introduce Turkey to the world through dance, continues to bring the Troy legend to life. The "Troy" performance, which brings together the 3,000-year-old legend with Eastern and Western cultures, will be staged on 19 January at Istanbul Atatürk Culture Centre. Tickets for the spectacular performance are now on sale at Biletinial, Turkey's event ticketing platform.
Anadolu Ateşi Dance Ensemble, which synthesizes folk dances with ballet, modern dance and other dance disciplines to introduce Turkey to the world through dance, continues to bring the Troy legend to life. The "Troy" performance, which brings together the 3,000-year-old legend with Eastern and Western cultures, will be staged on 19 January at Istanbul Atatürk Culture Centre. Tickets for the spectacular performance are now on sale at Biletinial, Turkey's event ticketing platform.
General Art Director Mustafa Erdoğan describes the performance, which brings the Troy legend—told as taking place in the historic city of Ilion established thousands of years ago in the Hisarlik Region of Çanakkale—to the stage through modern and traditional dance, as "an intense work conducted in the shadow of a lost myth, a history against forgotten history and a musical rebellion."
Anadolu Ateşi Dance Ensemble breathes life into the Troy legend. We greet this immortal masterpiece of art history three thousand years after its time in our homeland. The luminous city that adorned the dreams of world leaders spanning ages—from Hittite King Tuthalia to Achilles, from Alexander the Great to Roman Emperor Caesar, from Persian King Xerxes to Byzantine King Constantine, from Conqueror Mehmed to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... The cry rising from Troy's ruins and the rebirth of a 3,000-year-old mystical dream...
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