Acting • Music • Movement • Collective Creation How does an idea become a musical? Planned as part of the fifth edition of the Yücel Cultural Foundation’s Young Art Program, Young Musical focuses on exploring musical theatre, bringing creative ideas to the stage and developing an original mini musical together. Combining acting, music, dance, movement, and improvisation, the program encourages participants to become part of a collective creative process built around their own ideas. Training Time: Every Thursday, 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Total Duration: 6 weeks / 9 hours The sessions were scheduled to take place in person at Yücel Arts Center. Over six weeks, we will explore the essential elements of musical theatre, examine different musicals, and experience various performing arts disciplines. Through character development, stage expression, and creative acting exercises, we will explore different ways of telling stories. Improvisation will help us generate ideas, develop characters, and experiment with original scenes. We will work with voice, rhythm, and musical expression while exploring different ways of making music together. We will discover how music supports storytelling and becomes part of a collaborative performance. Through practical exercises, we will develop body awareness, explore movement design, and experience physical storytelling. We will discover how movement can communicate characters, emotions, and stories on stage. We will develop creative ideas, choose a shared theme, and build an original theatrical narrative around it. We will experiment with transforming our ideas into characters, events, and scenes. We will explore the relationship between space, movement, music, and acting to bring different elements of stage storytelling together. We will investigate how visual and physical choices can support the stories we create. By bringing different ideas together, we will develop original musical scenes. We will practice listening to one another, making shared decisions, and participating in a collaborative creative process. Based on the Devised Theatre (Collective Creation) approach, the programme aims to help participants develop their own story together rather than perform a pre-existing play. Participants are encouraged to bring together writing, acting, music and dance to create original scenes around a theme chosen collectively. The process includes generating ideas, developing stories and characters, and creating scenes together. The Young Musical programme aims to offer participants the following experiences: Young Musical was designed as a creative learning programme that does not require prior training in acting, music or dance. It is intended for young people interested in the performing arts who are curious about exploring, experimenting, imagining, discovering new ideas and creating together. What matters is not professional experience but curiosity, openness to experimentation and the desire to create together. Making mistakes is allowed! Being silly is allowed! Having fun is allowed! Dreaming and experimenting are allowed! Here, we value exploring and creating together more than having right or wrong ideas. Make space for yourself and others, listen to different perspectives, and become part of the creative process! İlayda Güralp is an actor, assistant director, and independent performing arts practitioner. She works in theatre, musical theatre, and cinema, taking part in projects that bring together acting, dance, music, and collective creation. She has performed in musicals such as İki Arada Bi’ Kabare, Kırılma, and Hell No! and theatre productions including Masalını Arayan Prens, Aşk - Tohum - Kader, Eğer Bu Bir Film Olsaydı, and Ben Babam Gibi Olmayacağım. Holding an athlete's license in International Latin Dance, Güralp combines her acting experience with music, movement, and creative stage production. She was announced as the instructor who would guide participants through the process of developing an original mini musical using acting, music, movement and improvisation. Young Musical was designed as a creative performing arts experience bringing together acting, music, movement, improvisation and collaborative storytelling. 📅 Programme dates: November 12 - December 17, 2026 🎨 Acting, music, movement and collective creation. Applications closed on November 9, 2026. This page remains available to present the programme and its announced schedule.🎭 Young Musical | How Does an Idea Become a Musical?
Developed as part of the fifth edition of the Yücel Cultural Foundation’s Young Art Program, Young Musical is a six-week creative performing arts programme combining acting, music, movement and storytelling. Explore its content, schedule and instructor below.
💚 Free participation 🎭 Acting, music and movement 📅 November 12 - December 17, 2026 🔒 Applications closed
🎭 The six-week creative process aims to culminate in a short musical performance developed from the participants’ shared ideas.
PROGRAM DETAILS
📅 Young Musical Program
TRAINING SCHEDULE
🗓️ Six-Week Training Schedule
PROGRAM CONTENT
🎨 What Does the Young Musical Programme Include?
ACTING AND IMPROVISATION
🎭 Acting and Improvisation
MUSIC AND RHYTHM
🎵 Music and Rhythm
DANCE AND MOVEMENT
💃 Dance and Movement
STORY DEVELOPMENT
💡 Creating a Story
STAGE DESIGN
🎨 Stage Design
COLLECTIVE CREATION
🤝 Collective Creation
COLLECTIVE CREATION
🎭 The Collective Creation Approach
🎭 The programme aims to conclude with a short musical performance developed collectively and shared with an audience.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
✨ Intended Learning Outcomes
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
💜 Who Is the Programme For?
CREATIVE LABORATORY
🎭 A Little Note: This Is a Laboratory!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
🎭 İlayda Güralp - Actor
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
✨ How does an idea become a musical?
🕣 Time: Thursdays, 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
⏳ Duration: 6 weeks / 9 hours
📍 Venue: Yücel Arts Center, Sultanahmet
🎭 Instructor: İlayda Güralp
💚 Participation: Free
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