M e r ic E r y i l m a z
Beginning
her dance education with classical ballet in state conservatoire at the
age
of 7, studied music (piano and cello) in Istanbul Fine Arts High
school, went to Istanbul State Conservatoire to study singing, where
she built her special sense of listening and hearing the essence of
music.
In 1995, she started studying jazz-dance and Argentine Tango
simultaneously. After 5 years of both, tango was already a very big
part of her life and she decided to concentrate on “Estilo Milonguero”, a very
traditional style of Argentine Tango.
In order to improve her own awareness and explore more into the
components axis/balance/power/breath,
she researched and studied different disciplines of body training. She
studied Hatha Yoga for a year, modern dance for 2 years with the world
known contemporary dance artist Zeynep Tanbay, and then explored Butoh
with Paul Ibey, again to dig more into understanding the “connections” between body,
gravity, mind and soul.
To this day, she has come to create and develop her unique way of
connecting and communicating before,
during and after the dance; putting together her knowledge and
WHY her own heart needs that communication while dancing. She’s
come to be known mostly with her very personal and special way of
seeing the dance as a whole: Before, during and after.
The maestro/as she’s worked with over the years, are; Alicia
Orland and Claudio Barneix, Esteban Moreno and Claudia Codega, Eduardo
Aguire, Imed Chemam, Fabian Salas and Claudia del Rivero, Muzaffer and
Birkit, Pilar Alvarez and Claudio Hoffmann, Celine Ruiz and Damian
Rosenthal, Ezequiel Paludi and Geraldine Paludi, Julio Balmaceda and
Corina De la Rosa, Andrea Reyero and Sebastian Misse, Andrea
Misse
and Javier Rodriguez.