#istanbul news: “digitally-enhanced dancers cavorting through Istanbul (by İlhan Erşahin)

Gorgeous video of digitally-enhanced dancers cavorting through Istanbul

This video starts off with dancers grooving away in the streets of Istanbul, wearing what, at first, appear to be regular costumes — cool-looking ones, but made out of ordinary materials.

Then the costumes start morphing and growing and throwing off crazy CGI effects, and the whole t​h​i​n​g becomes a lovely, hallucinogenic riot of color, movement and song. As Colossal describes it:


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