After having graduated from Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Architecture, in 1997 Sızanlı has participated in various projects at the Theatre Research Laboratory of Istanbul Municipality Theater. In 2000, she was among the initial co-founders of Çatı Contemporary Dance Artists Association in a collective artists’ group. Between 2001-2005, she worked with Mathilde Monnier at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (CCN) as a state artist along with working on different projects with Emmanuelle Hyunh, Mustafa Kaplan, Yann Marussich and Julie Nioche. In 2003, she founded Taldans Company with Mustafa Kaplan. Between 2013-2015, she gave classes on body and space relation in dance and gave movement classes at Eskişehir Anadolu University State Conservatory Theater Department and Eskişehir City Theater. She has been teaching at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory Contemporary Dance Department since 2017. In 2020, she graduated from MFA at the MSFAU Contemporary Dance Department with the thesis “Choreographic Research In The Limited Space” and in 2021 began her PHD from the same department.