Academic interests
Structured Human Movement Systems, Digitalisation of Movement Experience, Dance Anthropology, Somatic Practices and Actor Training, Aesthetic Experience, Phenomenology, Enactivist Theories.
Courses taught
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Introduction to Phenomenological Research (MCT4024 – Networked Music Performance Technologies 1)
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Art-Based Research Planning ( MCT4025 – Networked Music Performance Technologies 2)
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Qualitative Movement Analysis, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, Embodied Theories (MCT4053 – Motion Capture)
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Research Internship: Audio-Visual Background Rhythms in a Dance Experiment (MUS4089 - Research Internship at the Department of Musicology)
Background
She completed her BA in mathematics education, also she studied theater and performing arts. She finished her master’s degree working on kinesthetic aspect of aesthetic experience in theatre for young audience (TYA) at Ankara University Theatre Department. She finished her PhD at the same department and focused on acting phenomena from an enactive perspective. Also, she studied physical theatre in Copenhagen and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies in Berlin. Recently, she completed two years EU funded Choreomundus - International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage program, which is run by four universities University of Clermont Auvergne, France; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; University of Szeged, Hungary; University of Roehampton, United Kingdom. In her latest research, she worked on the digitalization of movement experience in a hybrid format class setting through ethnographical methodologies within the Choreomundus program. Now, she works as a post-doc researcher in the AMBIENT project at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo.
Awards
- EU-funded Choreomundus Scholarship