Modern Dance

About the Program

Our Modern Dance Program is a comprehensive arts education that supports body awareness, creativity, and technical development. Throughout the program, students learn the fundamental techniques of modern dance while simultaneously improving their flexibility, coordination, balance, rhythm, fitness, and stage presence skills.

Throughout the training process, floor exercises, balance exercises, turns, jumping techniques, stretching exercises, and movement coordination are systematically applied. As the program progresses, students have the opportunity to explore the artistic aspects of modern dance more deeply through improvisation, movement production, choreography, repertoire, and stage work.

Our modern dance education aims not only for physical development but also to strengthen students’ creativity, unique expressive skills, and connection with art. Through improvisation exercises, individual movement production, and composition practice, the program supports students in developing their own artistic language.

At the advanced level, students have the opportunity to experience professional stage processes through repertoire, choreography, stage use, costumes, set design, and lighting. This allows students to develop in a multifaceted way, both technically and in terms of performance.

The Ekin Akbaş Ballet and Dance education system distinguishes itself from other institutions by focusing not only on developing students’ technical skills but also their creativity and individual expressive abilities. Our training is delivered by experienced instructors who are conservatory graduates and possess strong communication skills with students.

Program Content

• Basic concepts and technical foundations of modern dance
• Stretching, conditioning, and body strengthening work
• Floor work and body awareness exercises
• Balance, coordination, and movement control work
• Turning, rolling, jumping, and transition techniques
• Spine, flexibility, and anatomical awareness work
• Rhythm, music, and movement relationship practices
• Modern dance techniques and movement variations
• Improvisation work and creative movement production
• Individual and group improvisation practices
• Spatial use and stage awareness work
• Contact improvisation and partner work
• History of modern dance and dance movements
• History of ballet and the development of contemporary dance
• Dance composition and choreography work
• Repertoire and stage performance practices
• Basic stage knowledge for costume, set, and lighting use
• Individual project and choreography development work
• Staging, performance, and presentation techniques
• Applications that develop creativity and individual expression skills