A workshop that will help you give flexibility, elegance and discipline to your body. As an art branch that features dance, music, rhythm, scenery and theatrics altogether, and holds purity, beauty and elegance, ballet develops the sense of aesthetics. One of the most impressive stage arts, ballet contributes in the physical, social, mental and emotional development of children.

Ballet helps children learn to know, discover and control their body, and to use their gestures and mimics accompanied by music.

Master instructor Murat Çatbaş was a student of Cerm ERtekin, Ramazan Bapov, Nikolai Morozov and Ludmila Morkovina at the Ballet Department of Istanbul University State Conservatory. Throughout his ballet education, Çatbaş danced in many works by Cem Ertekin in the Contemporary Ballet Company. After his graduation, he went to Germany and danced at Bühnen der Landeshauptstadt Kiel Ballet for two years and in Mannheim Nationaltheater Ballet for five years as soloist. During this period, he worked with choreographers including Heinz Weitz, Anthony Taylor, Markus Brühl, Rosamund Gilmore, Irene Schneider, Philippe Talard, Jose Luis Sultan, Katarzyna Gdaniec, Marco Cantolupo, Carrie Hanson, Eric Trottier, Luches J. Huddleston, Bruno Jacquin, Anne-Marie Porras and Jacqueline Davenport. He was also assistant stage director in the production of Halemin Opera at Landestheater Flensburg.

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After his professional art life, Murat Çatbaş attended Mannheim University (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim) where he succesfully completed the courses delivered by Birgit Keil, Yladimir Klos and Christine Neumever and graduated from the Dance Pedagogy Deparment at the top of his class.

He won the second prize at the Seleznyov Ballet Contest held in 1991 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Coreographies: Ave Maria (Bach.Gounod), Chrisanthemi (Puccini), At the Shore I Shall Weep (Latti Patek), Duo (Haendel), Kesitler (Armand Amar).