Troy

Dance project from the legendary dance association, Fire of Anatolia, contiue to meet its audience.

With the art directing of Mustafa Erdoğan, Troy, a myth form Anatolia, come true.

Troy is as old as the stories in the Sacred Book... Historical Ilion or "Wilusa" city, as called by the Hittites, located in Hisarlık region of Canakkale and founded thousands years ago has served as basis for many ancient myth. For one of the oldest and most known stories of the history of humankind, where the dreams and truth, science and utopia mixed into each other… 

The western civilization is indebted its cultural inheritance to Troy Myth but nothing else. This story, which was deemed as happened in 1180 BC, was again written to the memory of the humanity by an Anatolian Poet. The story which had been written down by Homeros, born in Izmir, in his immortal books of Iliada and Odysseia, had taken its place among the most known compositions of world.