This month, Yedek will be involved in two performances that demonstrate an aesthetic that she shares with Asian and European collaborators. At Archa Theatre Sept. 19, Yedek will appear with the Yinon Muallem Ensemble in a live music/dance work titled Klezmer for the Sultan. That this event is sponsored by both the Jewish Museum and the Turkish Embassy seems natural to Yeddek, who reminds us that "there is a tradition of Jewish liturgy done to Turkish music that goes back to the 17th century."

Muallem will lead his ensemble through what Yedek describes as "original compositions based on Turkish classical, traditional and folk music. He takes the Turkish form and gives it a new breath." Most of the music for the Archa performance can be found on Muallem's 2005 Oriente label CD, Klezmer for the Sultan. Although Yedek and Muallem have worked together in the past in Istanbul, this will be their debut European performance.

In contrast, Pentesilea Dreaming, Yedek's other collaborative premiere this month at Prague's Duncan Centre, is a futuristic work combining the vin-chun/kung-fu inspired dance of Yeddek and actor/dancer Andrea Miltnerová. This improvisational dance piece, depicting the queen of the Amazon's mythic encounter with Achilles, will be enhanced by the expressive lighting designs of theater director Jan Komárek.

Yedek has also enlisted the enthusiastic cooperation from Brno-based composer/percussionist Pavel Fajt. Although he is an admitted disciple of Brian Eno, Fajt creates a distinct music dosed with a muscularity seldom found in ambient. Over the past 20 years, Fajt's career has run from his '80s collaboration with Iva Bittová to his work in the '90s with avant-rock ensembles Pluto and Dunaj. In recent years, Fajt has worked more global grooves with the projects known as Drum Trek and Autopilote. His inventive approach will certainly be a perfect fit for Pentesilea Dreaming, which Yedek promises will be "a simultaneous, interdisciplinary creation ... not a fusion ... but a real dialogue of the various arts."