“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” ― Brian Trac
Workshops and Trainings Attended
(Organisation, Title, Trainer)
2020 February
Helix Association Trainings
› Suspend Action: Alexander Technique and CI with Matthieu Gaudeau
2019 August
Contact Festival Freiburg
› Moving While Touching: Body Mind Centering into CI with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad
2019 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Teach Us to Fish – The Axis Syllabus with Frey Faust
› Aotearoa MB: Movement and Hybrid Training with Charles Koroneho
2018 August
Contact Festival Freiburg
› Improvising Relationship, Dancing Tarot with Keith Hennessey
2018 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Radical Scheming: Collective Dreaming with Meg Stuart and Moriah Evans
› Moving Alchemy with Sara Shelton Mann
2018 June
Helix Association Trainings
› Tone and Space: Alexander Technique and CI with Matthieu Gaudeau
2017 May-June
Movement Artisans – Learning Through Movement Module 5 – Berlin
› Axis Syllabus – Anatomical Center/ Rhythm and Dynamic Arcing with Kira Krisch and Antoine Ragot
› Cranio-sacral Integration / Whats New? with Alex Does
2017 October
Movement Artisans – Learning Through Movement Module 1 – Berlin
› Axis Syllabus – Knee / Spheres of Activity with Kira Krisch and Antoine Ragot
› Body Mind Centering – Organ System Nina Wehnert
2017 August
Contact Festival Freiburg
› Body, Relationships and Perceptions Measures with Benoit Lachambre
› Training a Political Body: Responsiveness, Resistence and Resilience with Ann Cooper Albright
2017 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Alexander Principles with Shelly Senter
› Performing the Present with Susanne Bentley
› Social Dancing with Keith Hennessy
› Contact Subversive with Eszter Gal
› Conversations with Earth Kira Kirsch
› A Surprised Body with Francesco Scavetta
2016 August
Contact Festival Freiburg
› Touch into Movement with Eva Kacrzag
2016 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Body Mind Centering – Architectural Interaction with Adriana Almeida Pees
› The Energetic Body Through Dance and Meridians with Ori Flomin
› Tools for Partnering with German Jaurequi
› Shamanic Improvisation Potential with Keith Hennessy
› Contact Subversive with Eszter Gal and Peter Plyer
› Liquid Body- Dancing like Water Bruno Caverna
2016 June
Bilgi University Clinical Psychology MA Programs, Authentic Movement Retreat – Fethiye
› Moving on the Ground III: Advanced Practice in Authentic Movement with Marcia Plevin
2016 March
Bilgi University Clinical Psychology MA Programs, Authentic Movement Retreat – İstanbul
› Finding the Witness Within: Authentic Movement Training (assistant)
2015 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Awkwardness, failure and Redemption: Adventures in CI with Andrew Harwood
› Towards Moving with Pia Lindy
› Myoreflextraining with Kurt Mosetter
› Spine, Space and Sparkles – Axis Syllabus with Kira Kirsch
› The Axis Syllabus – Empowerment, Respect, Freedom of Expression with Frey Faust
2015 June
Bilgi University Clinical Psychology MA Programs, Authentic Movement Retreat – Fethiye
› Moving on the Ground II: An Intermediate level of Practice in Authentic Movement with Marcia Plevin
2014 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Body Mind Centering – Sliding with Adriana Almeida Pees
› The Informed Body – Invisible CI skills with Nita Little
› Difficult Things can be Easy with Frey Faust
2014 May
Bilgi University Clinical Psychology MA Programs, Authentic Movement Retreat – Adrasan
› Moving on the Ground I: An Intermediate level of Practice in Authentic Movement with Marcia Plevin
2013 July- August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Tools for Partnering with German Jauregui
› Crossing the Stage and Other Scores with Matteo Fargion
› Talking from Dance/ Dancing from Speech with Alice Chauchat
› Myoreflextraning – The Psoas Connection with Kerstin Kussmaul
› Contact Improvisation – West Coast Style with Martin Keogh and Sabine Parzer
2013 March
Bilgi University Clinical Psychology MA Programs – İstanbul
› Finding the Witness Within: Authentic Movement Training with Marcia Plevin
2012 November
Amber Platform, Special Issue Project – Istanbul › Fieldwork with Michael O’Connor
2012 November
Skinner Releasing Intensive – Istanbul
› Skinner Releasing, Improvisation with Gaby Agis and Mary-Clare McKenna
2012 July-August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
› Full Presence Ahead with Nicole Berndt-Caccivio
› Voice and Movement with Angelique Willkie
› Introduction to Alexander Technique and Movement with Judith Grodowitz
› Alexander Lab: Strategies for Change with Judith Grodowitz
› Gravity Happens: Principle of Movement with Kerstin Kussmaul
› Reorganising Ourselves with Alva Noe
2012 July
Ensemble Physical Theatre – Lesbos Island
› Psychophysical Actor Training Research – Peforming at the Edge with John Britton
2012 June
Skinner Releasing Intensive and Aerial Dance – Istanbul
› Skinner Releasing, Improvisation with Gaby Agis and Mary-Clare McKenna
› Skinner Releasing and Low-flying Trapeze with Nathan Dryden
2010 July
Transit Festival – Improvisation and Performance Arts – Istanbul
› States of Grace : Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas
› Active Listening : Kirstie Simson and Lê Quan Ninh
2010 June
Skinner Releasing Intensive and Aerial Dance – Istanbul
› Skinner Releasing, Improvisation with Stephanie Skura
› Skinner Releasing and Low-flying Trapeze with Nathan Dryden
2009 July
Transit Festival – Improvisation and Performance Arts – Istanbul
› Instant Composition with Julyen Hamilton and Barre Phillips
2009 June
GarajIstanbul Workshops – Istanbul
› Presence of Performers on Stage and Stage Aesthetics with Laurent Chetouane
2009 April
Au-Brana Workshops – Bordeaux
› Psycho-physical Training for Performance Artists with John Britton
2009 February
Öteki Psychological Counceling – Istanbul
› Dance and Movement Therapy – Relation Between I and the Other with Marcia Plevin
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” ― Merce Cunningham
2008 December
Folkuniversitet Balletakademian Professional Development Week – Stokholm
› Psychological Wellbeing of Dance Students and Their Teachers with Prof. Julia Buckroyd
2008 October
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Dance History and My Dance History with Alain Michard
2008 July
Transit Festival – Improvisation Days
› Site Specific Performances – INandOUT with Yanael Plumet – Cappadocia
› Instant Composition with Julyen Hamilton and Barre Phillips – Istanbul
2008 July
Skinner Releasing Intensive and Aerial Dance – Istanbul
› Skinner Releasing, Improvisation and Finding Forms with Stephanie Skura
› Skinner Releasing and Low-flying Trapeze with Nathan Dryden
2008 June
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› Sound Recording and Improving Acoustic (Audio) Perception with Erdem Helvacıoğlu
2008 May
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Choreographic Instant Composition: Physicality, Listening and Intentionality with Haim Adri and Benoit Gazzal
2008 April
International Conference “Performing Arts Training Today” by International University “Global Theatre Experience” – Slovenia
› Psychophysical Training through Movement Improvisation Workshop by John Britton
› Performer’s Physicality: Biomechanics (Meyerhold), Psychological gesture (M.Chekhov), Physical action (Stanislavsky) Workshop by Sergei Ostrenko
› Reflections on the Total Regeneration of a Post High School, Professional Dancers Training Program: Presentation by Fay Nenander
› Carnival Arts and Its Impact on Arts Education: Presentation by Shabaka Thompson
› Arts Education and the Disaffected Student: Presentation by Annie Cornbleet
› Approaches to Movement-Based Theatre: Lecture-demonstration by Pal Bernstein
2008 March
Project 0032 – Istanbul
› Master Classes with Meg Stuart
2008 March
Tune-Barcelona
› Multidisciplinary Collaboration Recognizing Improvisation as an Independent Art Form with Shahar Dor
› Butoh with Ariel Procajlo
2008 March
Logomotion – Orvietto and Rome
› Moving, Speaking and Writing with Simone Forti
2008 February
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› Contemporary Dance with Ted Stoffer
2008 February
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› Slowness and Lightness with Serkan Özkaya
2008 February
Eskisehir University – Eskişehir
› Devise Technique with Handan Ergiydiren
2007 November-December
Yıldız Teknik University – Istanbul
› Limon Technique with Louise Frank
2007 September
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› In Between: Word and Image in Art with Nancy Atakan
2007 July- August
Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival via DanceWEB Europe Schollarship:
› Coaching Project: Powerful and Fragile with Inaki Azpillaga
› Physical Theatre Training with Georg Blaschke
› Creation for Beginners with Marion Ballester
› Improvisation for Performers with Andrew Harwood
› Ballet for Contemporary Dancers with Janet Panetta
› African Contemporary Dance with Adedayo Liadi
› The Nervous System in Movement with Roseanne Spradlin
› C-Star Field with Frey Faust
› The Improvising Citizen with Keith Hennessy
› Flying Low with David Zambrano
› Afro-Haitian Dance with Karine Label
› Shamanic Improvised Presence with Keith Hennessy
› Flight Basics with Frey Faust
› Coaching Project: Performing Performance with Philippe Riera
2007 June-July
Transit Istanbul Improvisation Days
› Instant Composition with Julyen Hamilton and Barre Phillips
› Contact Improvisation with Claire Filmon
2007 June
Arlequi Contemporary Dance Workshops
› States of Grace: Improvised Music and Dance with Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas
2007 May
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› On the Reliable Ground with Jurij Konjar
2007 April
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops
› Physical Dialogues with Daniel Lepkoff, Sakura Shimanda and Atilla Dora
2007 March
Yogasala Workshops -Istanbul
› Asthanga Yoga Foundation Course with Eric Powell
2007 March
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› Art in Public Space with Gül Ilgaz
2007 January
Aksanat Contemporary Art Workshops – Istanbul
› Body and Space in Performance Arts with Safak Uysal
2006 December
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Performative Improvisation with Yanael Plumet
› Dance and Osteopathy with Gabriel Mallet and Julie Nioche
2006 December
Dans Buluşma Workshops – Istanbul
› Contemporary Dance with Carmen Werner
2006 December
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Qigong with Max Greze
2006 November
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Middle Asian and South American Shamanic Dances: A Passage to Sema (whirling ecstatic) with Meryem Quiolla
› New Butoh Space Dance with Tetsuro Fukuhara
2006 October
Yogasala Workshops – Istanbul
› Experiental Anatomy with Martin Sonderkamp and Nicole Ohme
2006 September
ÇATI Contemporary Dance Workshops – Istanbul
› Body Mind Centering and Butoh with Irem Calikusu
› Music and Movement Therapy:Karacorga (Shamanic Dance of the Baksi) and Sema (whirling ecstatic) with Asist.Prof. Oruc Guvenc
2006 July-August
1st International Contact Improvisation Festival – Cluj Napoca
› Falling into Flying with Alicia Grayson
› Awareness – Perception – Presence: A Somatic Approach to CI with Malcolm Manning
› Open Classes with Kurt Koegel
2006 June-July
Yogasala Workshops – Istanbul
› Asthanga Vinyasa Yoga with Julie Martin
2006 June
Transit Istanbul Improvisation Days
› Improvised Dance with Kirstie Simson
2006 May-June
Yogasala Workshops – Istanbul
› Scaravelli Yoga with Helen Noakes
2004-2006
Aksanat, Dansbuluşma – Istanbul
› Contemporary Dance Classes
2003-2004
Bujin Club – Istanbul
› Muay Thai Training
2005 March
S.T.E.P. Seminars – Istanbul
› Creativity with Engin Kafadar and Hakkı Mısırlıoğlu
2004 October
S.T.E.P. Seminars – Istanbul
› Presentation Skills with Fatoş Karahasan
2002-2003
Türkiye Dans Organizasyonu – Istanbul
› Latin Social Dances with Alper Alakut
1988-2002
American Collegiate Institute and Boğaziçi University Teams
› Voleyball (Licensed Player)
1988-1994
ACI Folkdancing Club – State Conservatory – İzmir
› Folkdances of Anatolia with Gül Yılmazkoç and Mine Erim
1983-1985
Sevinc Altıntas Bale School– İzmir
› Classical Ballet for Kids with Sevinc Altıntas
“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” ― Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955