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Berrak Yedek (Turkey)

Turkish dancer and choreographer – traditional, classical and folkloric dances from Turkey, contemporary dance

Berrak Yedek was born in Istanbul. At the age of five, she started dancing and learning music in Germany. Then she traveled and lived in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, in Russia, in England and in France. She studied dancing with ballet masters at the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, then at the Istanbul Conservatory. She had broaden her experience in England with the Rambert Ballet and the Northern Ballet Theatre, as well as with Vakil Usmanov at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. In 1992, she came back to Turkey to study at the University of Bogazici in Istanbul and started dancing with the Contemporary Ballet of Istanbul. Two years later she started Kumpanya Bale Türk, her own ballet group. In three years, she created 11 productions for her group. As a teacher in two dance Academies of Istanbul, she taught classical and contemporary ballet and dancing improvisation. She has been living in Paris since 1999. As a choreographer and an actress, she has been working with Compagnie Errance for Yerma, by F. G. Lorca. In 2003, she worked as a dancer again in the framework of the productions of Teatri del Vento, Opera de St. Etienne. In co-operation with nomades461 productions, she created her own creations: "Ensemble", ”Masal”. For nomades Laboratory, she is the artistic director in charge of dancing and runs improvisation workshops for amateur and professional musicians, dancers and actors in France, CZ and in Turkey. Since May 2005 Berrak lives in Prague and works as a teacher for modern dance in the Duncan Center Conservatory.

She is very active also in belly dance. Berrak was born by the Northeastern Black Sea region of Turkey and in her early childhood she was dancing for her family as most of the young Turkish girls. During her education as a dancer she was always doing also traditional dances of Turkey. When she moved to Paris in 1999 she worked also as a oriental dancer and collaborated with Nawal Benabdallah (Marroco), Soraya Baghdadi (Lebanon) and Shelly Alalluf (Israel) in Paris. In 2004 she started to work on her own style, making research about Turkish music and inspiring herself by old paintings of the Ottoman Empire. She is mainly focused on the close relationship of the music and the movement in the Turkish traditional style, finding her resources in Anatolian folkloric art and she is working and performing also with musicians. Living in Prague she performs and teaches belly dance as well.
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