Beyhan murphy biography of michael

Beyhan Murphy is a prominent dance figure in Turkey and a graduate of London Contemporary Dance School.

She was trained by Jane Dudley, Nina Fonaroff, Juliet Lewis, Bernd Berg, Anthony Van Laast, Robert Cohan at The Place before she graduated in 1978.

She lived and worked in the United Kingdom between 1978-1992 as a freelance dancer-choreographer & teacher.

Since her return to Turkey in 1992, Murphy became a resident choreographer for the State Opera & Ballet and founded and directed two institutional contemporary dance companies who are at the vanguard of contemporary dance in Turkey, Ankara MDT (1992) and Istanbul MDT (2011).

With the support of The British Council, she invited many UK based teachers and choreographers including Richard Alston, Ashley Page, Michael Popper, Kenneth Tharp, Mark Baldwin, Isabel Mortimer, Ben Craft, Matthew Hawkins, Ballet Boyz, Akram Khan, Lloyd Newson.

During her artistic directorship; as well as British choreographers