Eserzade Sword Dance

Biography

Eserzade was born in Stuttgart (Germany) and spent his childhood in Turkey, where he was taught Ballet since the age of 6. He lived in Berlin since the age of 13. There he started to devote his life to dancing at 16 years old. This genius dancer gets great fulfilment in inspiring the audience with his artistry and to bring together people from different cultures.

Eserzade, who studied oriental history and absolved an apprenticeship in the theatre, made his hobby dancing his profession!

Apart from oriental dance, he has learned a vast array of other dance styles while travelling abroad, and has developed his own unique dance style. Eserzade is his own choreographer. Thanks to his gracious dance moves and his unbelievable flexibility, he brings a unique and individual touch to his dances. Eserzade has continously expanded his artistic abilities over the years. That's how he learned among other things the techniques of meditation and yoga as well as the Indian art of knotting up during his travels to India.

Eserzade has dedicated himself to the study of Latin-American dances during his stay in Brazil and worked as a flamenco dancer in Madrid.

Further stations of his artistic career were apprenticeships as a model at Nino Cerruti, as visagist, actor, choreographer and style consultant.

Firm engagements followed in the beginning of the 90s in a couple of well known establishments in Germany such as

Tanzpalast Berlin
Türkischer Basar Berlin
Chameleon-Varieté
Schmidts Tivoli Hamburg etc.

Also in Turkey

Maksim, Istanbul
Halikarnas, Bodrum

As well as gigs on TV, e. g.

ORB "Querstrasse" (Eserzade - a portrait)
SFB "Casting club" (winner in the category best german artist)
Documentation on ITV, London
ZDF "Fernsehgarten"
ARD "Brisant"
Deutsche Welle "Boulevard Germany"

Eserzade worked for the Turkish television from mid until end of the 90s, where he had over 500 gigs at national and private channels such as A-TV, Inter-Star, Show-TV, HBB, TRT (Public TV-institution), Channel 6 and 7, TRT-INT, Kent-TV, eTV.

Several documentations followed: Portraits, different shows and television gigs in Europe: England, France, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Austria and Cyprus. In America: Brazil and the USA, the Middle East: Israel, Morocco, Egypt, United Arab Emirates as well as in Asia: India, China, Japan and Pakistan.

Furthermore, different articles appeared in the international press: Tagesspiegel Berlin, Berliner Morgenpost, TAZ, Berliner Zeitung, TIP, Zitty, Neue Zeit, Posta, Milliyet, Tercüman, Attitude, Le Figaro, Le Journal, Men´s Health, Prinz, Merhaba, Siegessäule, Bravo, Playgirl, Fokus Türkiye, Aktuel Türkiye, Phenomia Türkiye.

Eserzade also worked as a dance teacher for some of the best known Turkish artists such as:

Asena
Meltem Cumbul
Sibel Baris
Sibel Gökçe
Tanyeli

At the same time he took part in festivals and private events in Germany. He absolved concerts along with Nena, Udo Lindenberg, Nina Hagen, Wheather Girls, Eartha Kitt, Donna Summer, Tarkan, Muazzez Abaci, Bülent Ersoy, Meltem Cumbul, Zuhal Olcay, Fancy, Roland Kaiser, Thomas Hermanns, Gayle Tufts and also with the most popular dancer of the Orient: Nesrin Topkapi.

Eserzade lived in Morocco from 2002 - 2003, where he appeared as a solo-dancer in the royal palast of Rabat and at crown receptions as well as a choreographer and instructor for the royal ensemble.

Eserzade also had numerous gigs in TV shows on Moroccan television where he performed as a dancer for local singers.

In the last years Eserzade dedicated himself intensively to the study of folkloristic and regional oriental dances while still performing his numerous shows.