Book on Creative Dance Pedagogy

The book is written in Turkish by Lerna Babikyan, to spread the creative dance culture in Turkey, including history of creative dance, lesson plans, family activities and embodied learning though dance; published in 2022 by Töz Publishing House; ISBN number 9786057186409 “Dance is not only fun, encouraging, and motivating activity for children, but also a […]

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 […]