Founder &
Creative Director
Duygu Etikan

 
 
 

Born in Istanbul. She has won numerous dance awards during her years at school.

Her high school won the best dance group and best choreography award with her choreography and was noticed at press.

Her most recognizable award was the 2007 Nike Dance Award which she won in Istanbul.

She graduated from the department of Cinema and Television at Bahcesehir University.

     
     

She made short films about dance while still a student which were shown at some festivals and choreographed urban dance performances at the theatre of the school. After graduating university, she completed the dance program in Broadway Dance Center, New York. Through her study at BDC, she was selected as the best international dance student in May, 2007

Since she was a student at high school,she's been attending to dance festivals such as Impulstanz, SDK, Funkin Stylez, Juste Debout, Team K and many underground events.

Under the Spotlight (2011) is her latest documentary which was selected at many film festivals around the world such as Istanbul Internatıonal Film Festival, Rome Independent Film Festival, Cinedans Film Festival, Erzurum Dadas Film Festival...

She has choreographed and danced for many turkish artists such as Sertab Erener, Kenan Doğulu, Ziynet Sali, Ebru Gündeş. She is also the artistic director of the ETI CRAX commercial which had foreigner famous dancers in it.

She also worked as a choreographer and artistic director for international projects and directed dance videos in different countries.She was one of the choreographers for The Netherlads based projects Xpats and Made in Turkey which was performed in different cities.

At the moment she continues to teach dance for adults & teens and choreograph for shows, commercials and music videos . Her aim is to develop urban dance scene in Turkey, involve the youngters into art projects and carry the urban dance to international platform.