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  • Korhan Basaran Contemporary Dance Workshops at METU in Ankara (Photo: US Embassy Ankara Staff)
    Workshops at Middle East Technical University and Ankara University with Korhan Basaran

    "Suspend" and "drop" said Korhan over and over. "Feel your body. You are an individual on the stage; explore yourself. It is all about your movement," he said to one of the dancers. At the frigid end of January in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Korhan returned to the town where he had studied to give workshops. Many of his techniques he had learned under American dance legend Merce Cunningham. Video »

  • Mark Wentworth, Public Affairs Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara with METU students.
    Public Affairs Counselor Discussed U.S. Elections with METU Students

    Mark Wentworth, Public Affairs Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, spoke to a group of senior students at the department of political science at the Middle East Technical University on the U.S. elections: primaries/caucuses, political parties, the electoral college, campaigning, and the selection...  

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