Mehmet Öcal ÖZBİLGİN

Devlet Türk Musikisi Konservatuvarı, Türk Halk Oyunları Bölümü, Türk Halk Oyunları Öğreticiliği Anasanat Dalı

Research areas: Social Sciences and Humanities, Art, Folklore, Museology, Behavioural Sciences, Philosophy, Folklore and Musicology, Fine Arts, Music, Performing Arts

<p>Engineer(BA), Philosophy(BA), Sociology (BA), Turkish Folk Dance Studies (MA), Folklore Studies (PhD), Professor in Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory, Turkish Folk Dance Department in İzmir, Turkey. Since 1991 taught courses on types, genres, history and staging of traditional dances in Turkey. Publications and research presentations treat structural analysis of Anatolian traditional dances and changes in socio-cultural context. Head of Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory Turkish Folk Dance Department. Artistic Director of State Conservatory Ekin Traditional Dance Ensemble (GO) and Ege Culture Association (NGO). Chair of ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe and member of Ethnochoreology Study Group. Published three books on Ethnochoreology. Editorial board and referees of journals of music and dance studies in Turkey&nbsp;</p>

Publications

• The Phenomenon of Age in Western Anatolia Local Dance Culture in Turkey (2025)
• GELENEKSEL DANS REPERTUVARININ ÖĞRETİME UYGUN BİÇİMDE DİJİTALLEŞTİRİLMESİ (2024)
• Establishment and the process of development of Turkish national folk dance institutions (2024)
• Establishment and the process of development of Turkish national folk dance institutions (2024)
• GELENEKSEL DANS REPERTUVARININ ÖĞRETİME UYGUN BİÇİMDE DİJİTALLEŞTİRİLMESİ (2024)
• Postmodern Sanat Düşüncesi Bağlamında Geleneksel Dans (2020)
• Girit Mübadili Türk Toplumlarının Geleneksel Dansları Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmalar (2019)
• The Effects of Regular Dancing on The Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Depressive Mood of The Persons (2019)
• The Cultural Development of Folk Dance Festivals and the Sustainability of Tradition (2018)
• The formation process of folk dance festivals in Turkey (2018)
• Dance Practices in “Hidirellez Tradition” in Turkey (2018)
• Çokkültürlülük ve Göç Bağlamında Kars Halk Oyunları (2018)
• Girit Mübadili Toplumlarda Geleneksel Danslar (2017)
• Bölüm1: dans Araştırmalarında teori ve yöntemler (2017)
• Bölüm 2: Dansın Gücü ve onun sosyo politik kullanımı (2017)
• Anca Giurcescu and Ethnochoreology (2017)
• Geleneksel dans ortamında Profesyonellik (2017)
• Formation Process of Folk Dance Festivals in Turkey (2017)
• Ege Universitesi Etnoğrafya Muzesi (2017)
• Türk -Yunan Kültürel Belleğinde İzmir Geleneksel DanslarıTraditional Dances of İzmir in Turkish-Greek Cultural Memory (2016)
• The Production and Archiving of the Educational Aoudio Visual Dance Recordings (2016)
• Türk Yunan Kültürel Belleğinde İzmir Dansları (2016)
• The production and archiving of the educational audivisioal ethnographic dance recordings (2016)
• Türk Halk Oyunlarında Kurumsallaşma Süreci (2015)
• Halk Dansları ve Yaratıcı Drama (2015)
• Türkiyede Yas Dansları (2015)
• Türk Halk Oyunları Bölümlerinin İstihtam Problemleri (2015)
• Balkan İnfluences in West Anatolian Turkish folk dances (2015)
• Türk Halk Oyunları Bölümlerinde Müfredat Birliğinin Sağlanması (2015)
• Alevi Yas Geleneklerinde Ritüel Danslar (2015)
• The Fountadion Process of Turkish Folk Dance Departments (2015)
• Köroğlu Knife Dances (2014)
• Professionalism in the Traditional Dance Enviroments (2014)
• Zeybeklik Kurumu ve Zeybek Oyunları (2014)
• İzmir Zeybek Oyunları (2012)
• Sword dances in Turkey (2011)
• Differences of Creative Processes in Local Communities on stage with the Example of Aegean Region Zeybek dances (1998)

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