Ayberk Esen (1984) is a Caucasian folk dance based freelancer contemporary dancer, teacher and performer, who as well has acting skills and experience in various international projects, which has been staged and / or filmed in different lenghts, lands and formats since 2004. 

Ayberk lives & works in Europe since 2009 and currently based in Cologne / Germany. He received his BA from Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (2014) , additional to his previous studies in Istanbul Yildiz Technical University / Modern Dance Program and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance , SEAD (2009) . 

Since 2010 he has been working in several projects in Austria, Bosnia, Germany, Spain and Holland with Georg Hobmeier ( AU ), Flow Berger ( AU ), Georg Reichl ( AU ), Edward Clug ( RO ), Jelena Kostic ( SRB ), Helder Seabra ( PT) , Karl Schreiner ( DE ), Maura Morales, ( CU ), Hakan T. Aslan ( DE ), Michael Schmidt ( DE ), Marguerite Donlon ( IE ), Reut Shemesh ( ISR ).

Since 2017 he has been teaching Profitraining - morning contemporary dance traiining classes, for professional dancers during a week of period - as a guest teacher in various sutudios in cities such as Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Brussels, Köln, Freiburg, Berlin, Basel and Zurich. ( more to come...... )