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Among many dance and ballet schools, International Ebru Ballet and Dance School is easily differentiated with its remarkable academic staff.

Ebru Sayın is the only ballet teacher in Turkey with the Royal Academy of Dance,

Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma. She holds a registered RAD Teacher status.

First RAD PDTD Teacher; Reflections in the Media

Ballet trainers include a ballet proffesor (there are only two in Turkey) and 6 conservatory graduates (University Level). 3 of the ballet teachers are graduated from Russian State Conservatories.

Our rytmic gymnastic trainer (to support youngsters starting ballet education) was actually Turkey's national rytmic gymnastics team's trainer for the period 1998 - 2004. She is a Moscov Sports Academy graduate.

Music teacher is another talented conservatory graduate. She has her own books and methods on piano teaching.

Founder of the International Ballet Schools, Mrs. Sehnaz Ebru Sayın, started ballet as early as 3 years old. Her mother is also a ballet teacher. She graduated from Russian State Conservatuary. Later she graduted from Mimar Sinan University, Ballet Dancing Department. She is the only student to be accepted directly from the second year. She is the only student to graduate in three years (normally a four year programme). She represented Turkey in International Sanlam Dance Competition and ranked 5th.

In our Ballet Schools, half of the students are of international origin, three languages are used in classes besides the language of ballet(French).

Contact Information: Tel: 0 (212) 299 1088

Founder and the teachers are fluent in English, Russian and Turkish.

First Graduates – All In Conservatories Now

First graduates of International Ebru Ballet Schools received their diplomas in the 2007-2008 period and “all” got accepted by the most reputable conservatories on classical ballet and modern dance in Turkey at university level.

Behind the honorable “100%” success rate there is a hard-core academic team of educators.

Founder, Ş. Ebru Sayın, is herself a Russian State Conservatory graduate. She later got accepted by Mimar Sinan University and is still the only ballerina to be accepted directly from year two and graduated in just tree years.

She is the “only” ballet teacher to be accepted for the Royal Academy of Dance, “Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma” program from Turkey in the last 60 years and graduated with “Distinction”, the highest possible achievement.

She ranked 5th at International Sanlam Ballet Competition representing Turkey at the age of nineteen. She danced professionally for 6 years at AKM. She performed in and worked with:

·Leyla and Mecnun (Barra, Ray - Artistic director of Berlin Opera Ballet, 1996),

·Swan Lake (Dean, Derek – Artistic director of the English National Ballet, 1997),

·Sleeping Beauty (Dean, Derek 1998),

·Carmina Burana (Vamos, Yuri – Art director of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 1999),

·Ferhat and Sirin (Grigorovich, Yuri - Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer of the Bolshoi Ballet, 2000, considered as “greatest living choreographer”)

·Nutcracker (Grigorovich, Yuri, 2001)

School’s head of classical ballet is Prof. Alev Meral Tokgöz. There are only two professors on ballet in Turkey and she is the one to start classical ballet and modern dance programs at university level. She adapted Vaganova system for Turkey. Ebru Sayin is one of her first graduates.

Head of modern dance, Pınar Ataer, is a talented choreographer and dancer. She is awarded many times as the “best dance choreographer” and is also working with top professional dance groups and theatres in Turkey.

Yulia Langueva and Alexander Samokhvalov are Russian State Conservatory graduates (same school with Ebru Sayın) and are specialists in classical ballet and chararter dances.

Melis Kıvılcım is a Mimar Sinan Conservatory graduate at university level and is specialist in classical ballet and modern dance.

Besides ballet and dance, the school provides academic piano teaching with the help of two conservatory graduates; Bilge and Müge Demirkazan sisters. Talented teachers have their own piano methodologies and have their books and cds sold in major book stores.

Ballet teaching at the school is one of a kind, sustaining the perfectionism of Vaganova without losing the motivational teaching aspects of the Royal Academy of Dance method.

Teachers are fluent in English, Russian and Turkish, while the language of ballet is French. Generally more than 50% of the students are of different nationalities.

The school can shortly be described as “for the more serious moms” and expectations are higher. Teachers are very experienced in motivating the children and pushing them a little bit further, while the kids would only remember how nice the games they played and show you the beautiful awards they got.

On the average, one teacher is assigned for every 5 students. For the primary, prep and grade 1 classes there are 5 different day alternatives, including two weekend days. Children can attend any two or tree and can compensate for any missed classes in the same way.

A full fledged ballet recital is performed in the year ends at one of the top theatres in İstanbul. It has same format  with a professional performance and is a real stage experience for both the children and the parents.