Beliz & Emir

I was born in Istanbul, Türkiye. I started my ballet training at the age of 6. I had a very intense love for dance. When I started to live this love within the framework of ballet, I worked at an intense pace with great commitment and discipline for many years without getting tired. In addition to ballet, modern dance classes were part of the curriculum at Dans Akademik, which was founded by Emel Alper. I then went on to study classical ballet and modern dance at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. When moving within a certain vocabulary, I could no longer answer the question “Why do I move, what makes me move?”.

I was born in Bakırköy, Istanbul. Making philosophical sense of the world has always been an activity that I was drawn to. When I was 3-4 years old, I wondered if I was actually 2 years old and whether all this was a dream and I would wake from up. This pull became much more pronounced during my high school years. There had to be some convincing reason that I had to be here. As I was influenced by my philosophy teacher in Saint Joseph High School, GökçenHoca and the conversations I had with my father and decided to study philosophy.