Repeat as necessary | Scorpios Bodrum
Repeat as Necessary: Choreography to unveil the hidden circuitry of the body
Performance Dates: August 9-10, 2025
Location: Scorpios Bodrum
We're showing a new work, a 27-minute durational performance called Repeat as necessary to Bodrum, Türkiye.
Operator - Repeat as necessary (Performance visualization)
Repeat as Necessary: Choreography to unveil hidden circuitry
Performance Dates: August 9-10, 2025
Location: Scorpios Bodrum
We're showing a new work, a 27-minute durational performance called Repeat as necessary to Bodrum, Türkiye.
In this performance experience, choreography becomes an instruction manual for forgotten circuitry, ancient patterns inscribed in the flesh. Rather than considering technology as something outside ourselves, this work recognizes the body as a formidable instance of technology. Through repetitive movement something begins to dissolve: the boundaries between here and elsewhere, self and other, audience and performer, boredom and revelation.
The rhythmic architectures of sacred chant and Sufi sema music, rooted in neural entrainment through repetition, breath, and modal tension, are reimagined not as doctrine, but as sonic architectures for nervous system attunement. Woven together, movement, sound, and costume design form a hybrid ritual system: pulse and posture, fabric and form, guiding the body toward trance not through belief, but through sensation.
What emerges beyond the terror of staying still is an archaeology of presence, the body's hidden protocols activated: mirror neuron networks, autonomic regulation, collective neural entrainment. "Repeat as Necessary" is an experience as well as an activation and honoring of the technology of the body itself.
In other words: become worse at being elsewhere.
Collecting choreography
Continuing our groundbreaking On-chain Choreography Method established in 2023, Repeat as necessary addresses a fundamental problem in dance history—collecting choreography has been limited to documentation and notation rather than as an art object itself.
The collection consists of one Performance Operating System (1/1)—containing complete on-chain performance infrastructure and re-staging rights—alongside 40 individual Choreographic Works, each capturing a precise moment from the 27-minute performance. The smart contracts create a digital nervous system that mirrors the performance's entrainment mechanics, requiring sustained attention to reach full activation and embodying the work's resistance to fragmented focus through code itself.
Join Us in Bodrum
Two nights only at Scorpios Bodrum, experience performance as nervous system technology. Come prepared to surrender your scattered attention.
Artwork Credits:
Choreography: Ania Catherine
Operator On-chain Choreography Method: Operator
Method Adaptation (Blockchain and Visual Art): Dejha Ti
Engineer: Isaac Patka (Operator)
Music: RYAT
Costume: Don Aretino
Dancers: Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, Selim Cizdan, Ufuk Fakıoğlu, Halil İbrahim Akgün, İlayda İpekçi, Gizem Seçkin, Diren Ezgi Yıldızkan, Alara Erdem