MEDIATHEK

Mustafa Kaplan was born in 1965 in Konya, Turkey. He moved to Istanbul to study Electronics and Telecommunication in Yildiz Technical University. During his studies, he started taking dance classes from Geyvan McMillan. As he made his first choreograpy during those years, Although he graduated from the university, he never worked as an engineer. He danced with the Modern Ballet Company between 1989 and 1992. He started working for the Istanbul City Municipality Theatre in 1990 and worked at the theatre as a choreographer and dancer for 10 years. He is one of the founders of “Yesil Uzumler Company, “Dance Factory, “TALDANS Company and “CATI Dance Studio. Apart from his own choreographies, he danced in Aydin Teker’s and Yann Marussich’s pieces. (Quelle: www.taldans.com) / jst