The Fire of Anatolia is the best known Turkish Dance Company of our times. Their performances fuse folk dance, ballet, and modern dance choreography, as well as visual show elements into one spectacular theatre. Besides, the element of different dance traditions, belly dance and live drum solos are also part of the performance.

The company was founded by Mustafa Erdogan six years ago, when the 90 most talented young members were selected from a crowd of 750 dancers. The company started to work under the direction of the country’s most prominent dancers and choreographers. The Fire of Anatolia is the result of this collaboration, and the show has been performed on several international tours around the world in 30 different countries. With the approximately 800 performances, The Fire of Anatolia charmed more than six million members of different audiences.

Dawool – The Story of the Orient or Scenes from the Turkey of Our Days

While The Fire of Anatolia tells the ancient history and mythology of the Turks ancient country, Anatolia, the new production represents our days, the modern age. The music of the performance offers an interactive, variegated rhythm; it evokes the simultaneously laid back and energetic Turkish lifestyle, the simultaneous presence of progressive thought and the conservative bigotry, and the unique atmosphere of the Orient bazaars filled with contradictions and pleasure.
The loose threads of the story display different situations of everyday life. A bourgeoisie family around the dinner table, among them an unhappy child sipping Coke. The noise of the sips mingles with the porcelain’s monotonous clattering.
The group of drummers playing a variety of different drums provides the background for a love duet, expresses the emotional crisis in the trial and demonstrates the two sides of this child: East and West.

Fire of Anatolia: The Guinness World Recorder
The Fire of Anatolia entered the book of Guinness World Records with an incredible speed. The rhythmic tension plays with the limits of dance: 241 steps per minute!
The Fire of Anatolia aimed to enter the book of The Guinness World Records under the category of the ’fastest dance with music.’ For this purpose, the company performed the piece in the Aspendos Amphitheatre in Turkey.
The dancers of Anatolia, in the last minute of the show’s choreography, titled “The Excitement of Waves,” succeeded to “jump” 241 steps.
In this unique performance the dancers reached this an extraordinary achievement by making an average of four steps per second.
An electric metronome counted the dancers’ steps. At the same time, six cameras recorded the pictures in the presence of a notary, so that the performance could be projected for the audience. The event was closely followed and supported by the international media.