Şule Ateş

Related places: ÇGSG Categories: Theatre http://www.cgsg-tr.org

About the artist

Şule Ateş gained her BA degree from the Department of Theatre at Ankara University, in 1986. The following year, she excelled her acting abilities in the acting program of Theater Research Laboratory found by Beklan Algan and Ayla Algan at the Istanbul Municipality City Theatre.

Between the years 1986-2000 she acted in many independent dramas and performances. She established the theatre company "Yada Theatre" in 1992 with Hüseyin Katırcıoğlu ve Zişan Uğurlu and also performed in its first show named İsmene. She staged her first performance "The Dinner" in 1996.  She also staged "Kasım and Nasır" that is adapted from a short story by Murathan Mungan with the young people at Diyarbakır Arts Center in Diyarbakır in 2004.

Following, she joined the workshop organized by the Jerzy Grotowsky and Thomas Richards Atellier’ s Crossing Roads Project at Novi Sad Yugoslavia in April 2004.
She directed and organized an event entitled "açıKalan/Cihangir – Art in the Public Sphere" in June 2005.  This event was based on a concept of staging performances and interdisciplinary works not in artistic venues but at public locations.  She has become one of the founding member of The Initiative for Contemporary Performing Arts” which was established through the artists' joint operation who got together with her related calling in June. (Contemporary Performing Arts Initiation - Çağdaş Gösteri Sanatları Girişimi – çgsg www.cgsg-tr.org.)

In 2006, she staged Long Way-A Documentary Performance about the Turkish Gypsies with the collaboration of İstanbul Bilgi University Center for Migration Research. This performance, as a documentary-performance, showed off history, mythology and social position of the gypsies in Turkey by using different artistic and documentation approaches.

On 2007, as a first project of the Contemporary Performing Arts Initiative, she performed a festival named “Performing Arts Meeting 01- Oyun Atölyesi/Kadıköy”. And again as a CGSG project she organized theater and dance workshops in district halls of Beyoglu Municipality.

During 2007-2008 season, Sule Ates worked as the artistic director of DirectLink, a project organized by Istanbul Bilgi University and supported by the European Commission. In June 2008, she organized a performance series titled ‘Geçici Işgal’ (Temporary Occupation) at santralistanbul; and, in September 2008, she directed Vakit Tamam Beyler! (Time's Up Gentlemen!) a theatre piece based on T. S. Eliot's poems.

Contact: 
suatess@gmail.com
www.directlinkproject.org

Selected works