Kintsugi Touch to Life
Part 1: Existence Part 2: Recuperation Kintsugi Touch to Life Touch has many faces; corporal, visual, literal, auditory and ecologic touch are some of them…In the spring of 2022 I have received my first touch by Schumacher Collage in Reimagining Education Festival. Schumacher Collage was opening me a wide, wise and humble gate to manifest […]
Seeking Wholeness in a New Life: Boundaries and Fine Lines
I am starting life anew in a small village in England, and I am just beginning to understand my relocation here, together with the intimate life my husband and I have established. I sometimes watch the days of pouring rain with gratitude, and at other times, I take walks under the rain; contact with the […]
Alternative Education and Creative Dance
This year’s Alternative Education Conference, which included creative dance and movement studies in both its opening and workshops, helped increase the awareness and visibility of this new and intriguing field for our country’s education.Braindance movements, which we implemented as an opening event with the participants, was met with interest, and during the application process, participants […]
Daylighting
My perception of and relationship with dance and performance have evolved significantly since graduating from a related bachelor’s program in Istanbul. Initially rooted in set movements and result-oriented dance performances, my practice expanded towards interdisciplinary improvisations, site-specific explorations in urban spaces, nature, and the profound ancient landscapes of the Aegean coastline. This journey became a […]
On the Memory of Transformation in Dance Education from the Critical Pedagogy Conference
The Critical Pedagogy Congress was held in Ankara between November 29 and December 2, 2024 with the support of Eğitim Sen, Sivil Düşün, Birarada Association, ODTÜ Alumni Association and Töz Publications. The rich program, which included presentations from local and foreign academics who have been working in the field of Critical Pedagogy for a long […]
Ghost Bodies Reuniting with the Soil
On a May day, while enjoying the sense of emptiness after a long period of intense academic research and thesis writing, a tickle of curiosity led me to type some of the keywords I had explored in my thesis—such as Armenian, dance, alphabet, and embodied learning—into a search engine, eager to discover academic researchers with […]
Dancing with the Armenian Alphabet
On a cold, rainy, and gloomy morning in Berlin four years ago, I was walking through the streets of the city. The only thing I had to do here was to create as an artist. Berlin welcomed me for this very reason: to survive by producing. But the question that mattered most to me was […]
Wind of Sinop
From the steppes of Ankara to the north; I’m traveling by bus, leaving behind the steppes of Ankara. As I enter the city of Sinop—a place I know only from my grandfather’s stories, yet know so little about—I’m greeted by statues of the Amazon Queen Sinope and Diogenes, one of the first philosophers of antiquity. Entering […]
