Aslı Bostancı (b. 1984, Istanbul) is an Istanbul-based choreographer, performer, SoundBody practitioner, and Assistant Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Department.

Her artistic and academic practice moves at the intersection of contemporary dance, voice, somatic research, and sound-based practices. After graduating from the Contemporary Dance Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2007, she completed the CNDC Dance Choreography Program (Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Angers, France) in 2009 under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh. She received her MFA in Dance in 2017 and completed her doctorate / proficiency in art in 2022 at the same institution.​

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Since 2013, Bostancı’s research has increasingly focused on the embodied intelligence of sound and voice as tools for artistic creation, transformation, and collective experience. She is the founder of SoundBody (SesBeden) Practices, through which she creates performances, sound journeys, workshops, and interdisciplinary gatherings that integrate movement, voice, vibration, and somatic awareness. In 2018, she completed her Sound Healer Training with the International Association of Sound Therapy in Spain.

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Over the past years, she has created and toured her own works internationally. Her choreographic repertoire includes in between, panic in the ZOO, tales in no language, singing stories on speaking mountain, the last unicorn, my grandmother is a stone, calling vaikhari, spirits of the things, vaikhari, UVAKUVA ya da gelecekten dualar, Vadi, Ateş Kuşu, and the Sadece_Dance Video Series.

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As a performer, she has collaborated with artists such as Meg Stuart, Michael Laub, Marc Vanrunxt, Alain Buffard, Trisha Brown, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jordi Galí, Tuğçe Tuna, and Gaby Agis.

Her work has been presented at numerous international festivals including  Julidans (Amsterdam), Springdance (Utrecht) , Neue Positionen (Frankfurt), International Istanbul Theatre Festival, and FAVOURITES  Festival (Essen).

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Her solo performance Calling Vaikhari received the “Best One Square Meter” Award at the 12th International Theatre and Performing Arts Festival in Yerevan (2017).

In 2013, she received a Special Mention at the Milano International Prize – Spazio Teatro NO’HMA Teresa Pomodoro for her solo work in between.

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Alongside her artistic practice, Bostancı has been teaching contemporary dance since 2010 at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory.  As an Assistant Professor, she teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation, composition and repertory while continuing her research on voice, sound, and embodied knowledge within artistic and academic contexts.