BRATISLAVA - A well-known Turkish dance group has staged two performances in Slovakia.
Thousands of Slovak, Austrian and Hungarian dance-lovers watched the performances of "The Fire of Anatolia", a project displaying the Anatolian culture through dance and music, in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.
Numerous high-level Turkish officials from Bratislava and the Austrian capital, Vienna watched the show as well.
"Fire of Anatolia" will stage another performance in the Slovak city, Kosice on Sunday.
Mustafa Erdogan, the general art director of the project, said that his latest project "Troy", which gets its name from an ancient Anatolian civilization, will be staged in Turkey till the end of November and then it will go on a world tour.
-FIRE OF ANATOLIA-
Including a synthesis of hundreds of folk dance figures and music from different regions, The Fire of Anatolia is a unique project that gets its source from Anatolia's ancient mythological and cultural history. The dance group introduces the world the fire that arises from the ancient mosaic of love, culture, history and peace of Anatolia.
The Fire of Anatolia started its world tour in 2002 and since then from Germany to Belgium, the Netherlands to Switzerland, Israel to China, Romania to Qatar, Bulgaria to Jordan, Siberia to Azerbaijan and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to Japan has met audiences of many different countries.
-TROY-
"Fire of Anatolia"s Art Director Erdogan's latest project "Troy" tells about the legendary war between the Troy army pictured as an Anatolian alliance and the Greek army of Greek Alliance. The composition of the project does not only focus on dance choreography, the show is also a musical at world standards with ethnical and symphonic synthesis.
(DO-BRC)