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And in the piece ‘prison’ for two men, the topic is not only life in prison but also about the life of gay men in Turkey. When writing the piece ‘chair’ she thought about torture. In some pieces Tanbay comments in a symbolic way on problems in Turkey. The connecting theme is that mankind spends most of their lives on 4 legs: a chair, a table, a couch and in bed. The piece ‘4 Legs’ consists of 16 separate pieces. Instead of perfect dancers with perfect bodies they are normal people who like dance as a means to express themselves. Choreographer Zeynep Tanbay explains that almost none of the Turkish dancers has received a formal education as modern dancer: some dancers did Karate or belly-danced.
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Whilst they were there, the American dancer Clifton Brown (1980) from New York gave a free dance workshop to the Turkish dancers in Amsterdam. In October 2008 Zeynep Tanbay, the most important pioneer of modern dance in Turkey, performed her piece ‘4 Legs’ together with her group of 10 dancers at the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ. The Project aims to create a new sense of modern fairy tale and fairy tale characters and is an experiment of costume, stage design, video art, shadows, silhouettes, and light in relation to movement. She got inspiration from the Peter Pan from literature, ‘Pan’ from mythology, Jitterburg Perfume of Tom Robins and ‘Karagoz and Hacivat’, the traditional Turkish shadow game. The concept is based on conflict between dream, imagination, and reality inside one person. Gonca directed the dance “Peter Pan and the Swan Catching the shadow.” which had its first staging in Arnhem in May 2008, and was performed in Istanbul in September 2008. She continues her artistic works and projects with project group"Performance Planet". Now back in İstanbul, she continues her studies with a Masters degree at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts State University at the Modern Dance Department studying with Aydin Teker since January 2010. Gonca took part in several festivals and organizations in the Netherlands: 2007 Spring Dance Festival- Utrecht, 2007 Dans Dagen as volunteer, and publicity, 2006-2007 Uitmarkt - Amsterdam, participated IETM Utrecht 2005, she worked at the Julidans organization in 2009, staged as assistant of Olivier Dubois's "FAUNE(S)" piece. In 2006 she did an internship in Felix Meritis AMSU Amsterdam, at the same time period he took part in “School for Development New Dance,”(SNDO) in de Theaterschool in Amsterdam. She participated in “Arts Management” certificate programs of Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU) in 2005. She landed an apprenticeship with Anouk van Dijk D.C and Magpie Umbrella Dance and Music Company Amsterdam in June-August 2009. She had chance to work with Michael Schmacher, David Zambrano, Angus Balbernie, Suzy Block, and Mary O’Donnell. She studied at Artez Hogeschool voor de Kunstern: Dansacademie, at the Dance Maker/ Choreography Department in Arnhem between 2006-2008 and created 11 different pieces.
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Apart from studying in Turkey between 2005-2009 she also went to Holland to attain further education and experience.
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She graduated from the Middle East Technical University at the Sociology Department (2001-2005) and took lessons at the Student club Contemporary Dance Group ( ODTÜ Çağdaş Dans Topluluğu). Gonca Gümğşayak was born in Izmir in 1983 and is a dancer and choreographer.