ABOUT


Juxtaposing beauty and power, inventive movement and disjointed
composition, my work distills the awkward and virtuosic into a
distinct aesthetic quality. I create my project-based works with a
changing group of performers in New York City and in Tel
Aviv.

 

Fellowships: 

  • 2013 Jerome Robbins Fellowship, Bogliasco Foundation
  • 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
  • 2010 New York Foundation of the Arts
  • 2010-2012 Six Points Fellowship 

 

Artists-In-Residence:

  • 2013 ICI Berlin
  • 2012 Baryshnikov Arts Center
  • 2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space
  • 2010-2013 Tribeca Performing Arts Center

 

Original work commissions:

  • La Mama Etc (NYC, 2012) 
  • Dance New Amsterdam (NYC, 2010)
  • Danspace Project (NYC, 2009)
  • Harkness Dance Festival (NYC, 2008) 
  • Curtain-Up Festival (Tel-Aviv/Jerusalem, 2006)
  • Intimadance  Festival (Tel-Aviv, 2006, 2007) 
  • The Yard Dance Colony (Martha’s Vineyard, 2003)

 

Presentations:

  • International Dance-Theater Festival Stuttgart, Germany 
  • New York City - The Kitchen Works-in-Process, Movement Research @ Judson Church, 92nd Street Y, Brooklyn Museum, Joyce Soho, La Mama Moves!, Danspace Project Food-For-Thought
  • Tel Aviv - International-Exposure, Different Dance Festival
  • Other - Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Painted Bride Theater-Philadelphia Fringe Festival

 

Works commissioned by other companies:

  • 2013 SPDW Dance Theater (Chicago, IL)
  • 2012 Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis, MN) 
  • 2011, 2012 University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
  • 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
  • 2010 Harkness Repertory Ensemble (NYC)
  • 2010 OfMovingColors (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
  • 1999, 2001 Misgav Dance Workshop (Galilee, Israel)

 

Grants:

  • Merzt Gilmore Foundation 
  • The Fund for Creative Communities
  • Manhattan Community Arts Fund
  • Israel Lottery Foundation
  • Puffin Foundation.

 

In addition to my work as a choreographer, I perform in the works of others. I was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers 2007-2012, and have also worked with Nancy Bannon, Karinne Keithley, Mark Jarecke Dance, Noemie LaFrance, Ronit Ziv, Zoltan Nagy, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. 
I am currently dancing for choreographer Joanna Kotze.

 

I have taught modern technique at Yasmeen Godder’s Studio (Jaffa, Israel), Bikurey Haitim Center (Tel-Aviv, Israel), OfMovingColors (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), The Yard, Misgav Dance Workshop. I have staged works by Doug Varone at the University of Michigan and at Point Park College (Pennsylvania), and, through his auspices, i'v taught throughout the USA and abroad.

 

I was born in South Carolina, where i had my first dance performance at age 3 (see above). I moved to the Galilee in Israel soon after and trained at the Misgav Dance Workshop, the school of the Kibbutz Dance Company in Ga’aton, and Bat-Dor studios in Tel-Aviv. In 1996 I relocated to New York to earn a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts. I work mainly in Tel Aviv and in New York. Currently I am living in Berlin.

 
Photo: Oded Hirsch