Independent animator and illustrator. Graduated from Bezalel Department of Screen Based Arts. Lives and works in Haifa. Together with Ofeq Shemer, she creates short films that combine material and digital techniques. The films have been featured at festivals and exhibitions in Israel and around the world.

 

Painter, graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem; since 1992 his works have been exhibited in one-man and group shows in Israel and abroad, and are held in collections of the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museums; among others won the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports Young Artist Award for 2001, and the Benno Gitte Award by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2008.

Artistic and General Director of Hazira. A Theatre director and space designer, he is a graduate of the School of Visual Theater (2001) and has been teaching at the school since 2006. He is a member of the artistic committee of Bat-yam Festival of Street Art and Theater (2015-2017). He is one of the founders of the artists compound Fest’ Factory and the Pandora Collective. In his work, Drori creates live, intensive and poetic performances, based on human performers that act side by side with robotic objects. These are built by Drori and his team through detailed, unique manual work. In his work, Drori creates landscapes of artificial nature, which give rise to mythical tensions between human consciousness, technology, and nature. His work moves within the boundaries of theater, performance, and installation. His creative work has won recognition both in Israel and around the world and his works have been shown in more than 20 countries. These include a presentation of his work at the Barbican center in London, the Nord-Zone Performance Festival in Groningen, The Netherlands, and the Taipei Art Festival, Taiwan. His works are based on extended developmental processes and cooperative international productions. He is the winner of the Rosenblum Prize, 2010.

Born 1970; photographer-artist working in analogue format in Israel and abroad.

Performance and installation artist, graduate of The School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem (2011) and DasArts – Master of Theatre in Amsterdam (2015).

Ana Wild is a young girl, a graceful punk, a memorisation maven, interested in voice, in speaking, in words, in knowledge-structures, in anthropology, history, mythology, poetry, graphic design, electricity, in creation ex-nihlis, in musicality, learning, understanding, repetition, cyclicality, in Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, in translation, in print, in magic, in adventure, in friendship, in agency and in power. Her work oscillates between the theatre and the gallery, and was presented in Seoul, Geneva, Brussels and more. In Israel, her work was shown in MoBY – Bat-Yam Museum for contemporary art, Habait theatre in Jaffa and more. Her work “Worlds, a Canaan-Futuristic Song Cycle” was produced by Hazira, Jerusalem and co-produced by l’Arsenic, Lausanne. In 2019 the work was nominated for the PREMIO prize in Switzerland. In 2018-19 Wild was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Between 2021-22, She will be a resident in Artport, Tel-Aviv. Wild teaches at the “Olympus” study program for artists at the Liebling Haus.

www.anawild.com

Asaf Elkalai was born in Kerem Ben Zimra (1986), currently based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Teacher and Artist in the fields of installation, sculpture, photography and video. His works are exhibited in museums in Israel and around the world and part of important collections such as The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum and more. Graduated with honors BA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and Art Education studies at The Hebrew University. He participated programs and residences as "Skowhegan" artist residency in Maine (USA), the FINE Artist in Residence at Pittsburgh (USA), the artist residency program of the Jewish Art Center at Buffalo (USA), “Investigate Ways of  Living” by  Andrea Zittel at California (USA), “Aesthetics and Bias” at Poznan (Poland), EAU & GAZ Artist Residency at Eppan (Italy).      

A senior lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Department of Theatre Arts, where she heads the Actor-Creator-Researcher Study Track, and teaches at the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Her research addresses aesthetics and the ideology of performances, the reflexive performance, the void as a performative phenomenon in theatre and performance groups as well as contemporary Israeli theatre. She heads the "Practical\Theoretical Research Laboratory" Program together with Prof. Freddie Rokem, Prof. Nurit Yaari and Prof. Ruth Kanner, funded by the Humanities Fund for an innovative humanities teaching project.

Artist and Director. Director of Miklat 209. During 2009-2017, he was the Head of the School of Visual Theater. Founder and curator of the school’s International Performance Conference. An editor in of the journal Maakaf. Studied at the École des Beaux Arts in France and the Central Saint Martins College in London. Taught at the Central Saint Martins College and served as head of the program of Space Design at Shenkar College. Creates stage works, sound' theatre, dance and performance, in theatres, museums and festivals in Israel and around the world.

Acting teacher and coach. Studied at Lee Strasberg’s acting school in New York, and trained in diverse acting techniques that involve the body, voice, text, and space, including Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints and Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theatre. Holds a bachelor’s degree in cinema from the New School University, New York, and a master’s degree in theatre (with special honors) from Tel Aviv University. Teaches acting and stage presence at SVT, the Hebrew University, Move Studio, Beit Zvi, Shenkar, the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and leads private group actor training workshops as well as one on one sessions. Has served on several committees, among them: IsraDrama & International Exposure of Israeli Theatre, the Fringe Section of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Golden Hedgehog Jury, Sal Tarbut, and Culture for the Periphery. 

An independent Choreographer, dancer and teacher. Through her works Iris searches to bring the political and public spheres through the private vibrating body. Between her works are: "Temporary"(2007), "Homesick"(2010), "First Body Many"(2013), "I'll be right back"(2014),"Public Intimacy"(2014), "Local/Not easy"(2016) "The Makers"(2018), "Missing Faces"(2020),site specific works and videodance pieces. Her works are shown worldwide. As a dancer worked with choreographers Yasmeen Godder, Inbal Pinto, Arkadi Zaides, Ronit Ziv and more. Curated the Galilee Mountains Dance Event and MASH 2015 dance festival in Jerusalem. Teaches release technique and choreography at the Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance and was the guest artist professor for spring 2017 at the dance department at Reed College USA. Won prizes from the ministry of culture for the best dancer for the year 2001 and 2018 and grants from Bistrizki, Teva and the lottery culture funds. Holds a BA in psychology and arts and a diploma in dance therapy. A mother of 2 boys.

Born in Ashkelon 1981, Performance Art Artist, Kineret has been busy with expanding the understanding of live art and its potential. Her works respond directly to reality and introduce performance as a process, and a junction of actions and interactions within a public situation shared by the audience and the artist. Since graduating from the School of Visual Theater in 2007 she joined the Performance art platform and Ensemble 209. This along with exposure to performance art throughout Asia and Europe in which she performed, left a significant imprint on her.   Her works have been exhibited in gallery spaces, public spaces, and theater. Between the years 2016-19 she led performance studies in PAP. Since 2016 she has been a lecturer at Musrara School of Art and Society. From 2023, she will direct the "Scratch Orchestra" ensemble. Holds a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.  

Lea Mauas is part of the Sala-Manca group and director of the Mamuta Art and Research Center. The Sala-Manca Group is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation since 2000. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts as well as social and political issues. The members of Sala-manca group are Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman, artists born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who live and work in Jerusalem. Sala-Manca edited the books The Ethnographic Department of the Museum of the Contemporary, 2017, Jerusalem: Mamuta Art and Research Center; Heara – Independent Jerusalem Art Scene at the beginning of the 21st Century (edited together with Ronen Eidelman), 2014, Jerusalem: Mamuta Art and Research Center; Founded and Edited  Hearat Shulaym art journal  (Note in the Margin): Independent Quarterly for Contemporary Art and Literature (2001-2007), curated and produced Heara events – multidisciplinary events organized in an independent way with no commercial or official sponsors, between other projects. In 2009 they founded and directed since then the Mamuta Art and Research Center which ran at the Daniela Passal’s house between 2009-2012 and in Hansen House since November 2013. Their work has been shown in different shows and festivals in venues such us: The Israel Museum, Petach Tikva Art Museum, Haifa Museum of Art; Tate Modern; Eyebeam New York, BlackBox Belfast; Transmediale, Berlin; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; The Jerusalem Film Festival; NYU; IMPA, La Fabrica, Buenos Aires; Castle Ujazdowski, Warsaw.

Lior Pinsky, creator in the fields of experimental-electronics based music. Stage works. Installation works. Keyboards and strings. Field recordings. Texts. Musique concrète. Mechanical and electronic mechanisms. Drawings and records. www.liorpinsky.com

Choreographer and teacher of body work. Graduated from SVT, and from 2017 serves as the school's Director.

Singer and interdisciplinary artist. Graduate of vocal studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Specialized in medieval music of France and Italy, Arab music and Ladino singing. Performs the music-theatrical works 'Virga' and 'Membrana', and in the concert 'Amant de mo name" - Jewish music of the Sephardi diaspora, published by the French label "Alpha". Member of creative research group 'Vertigo' in the framework of
culture labs, has taken part in creating the performance 'Mamalela'. Currently performing her new work 'Ode to the Box'. Senior instructor of the "Discovering the Voice" method.

Lives in Jerusalem, Works with the body and movement, sculpture and spirit.

A Jerusalem native, 1979. Performance artist. Since her graduation from the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem in 2008, she has become one of the most prolific and central figures in the Israeli experimental scene. Using a unique language, she creates poetic pieces that include a complex word game, play-like choreographic structures, and aesthetic tools that elegantly swing between the sacred and the earthly. She has a BA in Psychology and philosophy. In addition to her artistic work, she teaches at various universities and dance and theater schools across the country. Her works are inter-disciplinarian in the deepest sense of the word. They grow within the theatrical environment but produce an abundance of exciting relationships between the various artistic domains. They draw unexpected links between space and the human object, while making use of day-to-day materials for the creation of infinite plastic poetic moments. Her performances build rich, closed worlds, devoid of internal plots, which challenge the way we are used to grasp the world and produce meaning. This type of performance uncovers the basic “condition” that is to be found under any plot. It focuses on the behavioral and the existential and directs our attention to the very act of observation, to our own ways of observing.

Theatre maker and performance artist. His work spans various practices in the media of video, sound' text, and research. His projects have been presented at many theatres and art vanues including: Bahuhaus Dessau', Mousonturm Frankfurt, the Ruhrtriennale, Gessnerallee Zurich, the Tel Aviv Museum of art, Schwankhalle Bremen, Reading International, Jerusalem Season of Culture, and Bat Yam Museum.

Independent animator and special effects supervisor in the film and television industry. Graduated from Bezalel Department of Screen Based Arts. Lives and works in Haifa. Together with Ada Rimon, he creates short films that combine material and digital techniques, with an emphasis on the interplay of sound and image. The films have been featured at festivals and exhibitions in Israel and around the world.

 

Artist and Lighting Designer (b’ 1982). BA in literature and philosophy – Tel Aviv University, MFA in Art Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. His works were presented in various galleries and venues, including: Traiomf (Moscow), Artist’s Studios Gallery, Nehoshtan Museum, Basis Gallery and others. His works deal with public spaces, lights and stages, focusing on the interaction between the performative element and the environment. As a lighting designer, he developed his unique style in theater and contemporary dance. He awarded prizes for his achievement, (including the Fringe Prize, and Acre Festival Prize). He is teaching his methods in various academies. as a lighting designer he collaborated with many artists, including: Yasmeen Godder, Roi Asaf, Neta Barzilay, Bat Sheva Dance Company, Sharon Eyal, Yonatan Levi, Noam Inbar, LA Dance Project, Göteborg Opera…

שחר קדם, 1989- רמת הגולן. שחר יוצר עצמאי החוקר את מקומם ותִפקודם של חפצים שימושיים, חללי פנים ומרחבי חוץ, תרבות אוכל ומחשבה קולינרית- בחיי היומיום. בסיס היצירה שלו נע בין מרכז הארץ לרמת הגולן ולרוב משתקפים בעבודותיו חילופי החומרים והיחסים בין פנים לחוץ, פרא וביוּת. בוגר התואר הראשון לעיצוב תעשייתי בבצלאל, והתוכנית המקוונת של קולקטיב המעצבים ההולנדי- Dutch Invertuals Academy, מרצה מן החוץ ב H.I.T במחלקה לעיצוב תעשייתי. פועל על הרצף שבין עיצוב ואומנות ועוסק בניהול והפקת פרוייקטים בתחומים אלו.

 

(2022) אוצר התערוכה "שוד ושבר" בשיתוף רשות העתיקות עבור שבוע העיצוב ירושלים.

(2021-2023) חבר בחממת המעצבים של מפעל הפייס במוזיאון העיצוב חולון- לעיצוב ואוכל - תערוכה שתציג במרץ 2023 (אוצרת המוזיאון- מאיה דבש, אוצרות התערוכה- ליאורה רוזין ודנה בן-שלום). (2021-2022) תערוכה משותפת בגלריית BY5 בתל אביב ("מיד ליד" בתערוכה אנגז'ה, אוצרות- מירב רהט ומיכל קרסני), מיצג קיר בתערוכה "אוצרות האדמה", מוזיאון המדע בירושלים, תערוכה משותפת "True Matter" של קבוצת Dutchinvertuals כחלק משבוע העיצוב באיינדהובן (בשיתוף עם טל פרגר- גלילי). ליווי פרוייקט הגמר של שירה מרק, בית הספר לתיאטרון חזותי, ירושלים- תכנון אובייקט קינטי למיצג תנועה.

עיצוב חלל התערוכה "באין פסנתר" (אורי דובדבני, גלריה ברבור בירושלים). עיצוב ובניית חלל הסלון בכנס פרפורמנס- 9, בית הספר לתיאטרון חזותי בירושלים, בשיתוף עם כרמל בר- סטודיו Mela. ניהול פרוייקט ועיצוב חלל- בית הפואטרי סלאם תל אביב.

Shani Tamari Matan is a dancer, a creator, and dance teacher. She is a graduate of the Visual Theater School, with both a Bachelor of Dance and a Master of Dance degrees from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Among others with whom she has danced are the choreographic creators Barak Marshall, Dafi Eltabab, Efrat Rubin and Osnat Kellner. Shani Tamari writes about and comments on dance in various platforms. Presently, she is a lecturer in the master's program at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and also in the graduate program at the Hebrew University in Folklore and Folk Culture Studies. She is also a member of the dance section of the Ministry of Culture of the State of Israel.

Born in Haifa, lives and works in Jerusalem.
Graduated The School of Visual Theater and  the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem (B.d). 
Danced at “Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal Dance Company".
Creates dance and videodance.

Tami Lebovits, Born 1983. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Graduate of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem 2007.Graduate of the Choreography Program Kelim, conducted by Anat Danieli (2009-2012). Student in Seminar Hakibutzim College. Winner of the America-Israel award for 2006. Stage works: Alike Me (or- The Maids of Honor) Diver Festival 2013. God is Measuring the World with a Compass Machol Shalem Festival 2012. Lessons in Binding and Government New Dance festival 2011. Sketch for 3 Unknown, New Dance festival 2010. Taninim, IntimaDance Festival 2006. Dancer co-creator in Repetitions of Parts of Me by Anat Danieli,Bat-Yam Museum 2012, Tel Aviv Museum 2013. Performing in Homesick by Iris Erez, Curtain Up festival 2010. From 2007 part of Ensemble 209 under the direction of Tamar Raban. participating in the works Old Wive's Tales (2006) by Tamar Raban and Guy Gutman. Amplifier (2008), Remix : House of Bernarda Alba (2010) by Guy Gutman

Tomer Damsky is a sound artist, graduate of the New Music Department in Musrara, external studies
at the School of Visual Theater, and the Department of Art, Film & Theater Studies at the Open
University. She researches philosophies of listening and social dissonance in a context of gender,
performance and existential boredom and wanders the areas between voice, drumming, improvisation,
electronics and amplified metal sculpture. Participated in musical and stage projects such as the
theatrical Doom Metal parody "PARVE", the play "Raful and the Sea" and ceremonial performance
"Ghom! A Gibberish Cantata" by Yonatan Levy, Nir Shauloff and Noam Enbar. Creates, performs and
designs sound for dance pieces such as Yasmeen Godder's "Simple Action", "CLIMAX" and
"Common Emotions". Together with her partners in OOMVABOREG collective builds sound and video
installations, exhibited in Musrara Mix Festival, InDnegev, Tectonics Festival and Medditeranea
Young Artists Biennale in Albania. Member of A/V trio WACKELKONTAKT. Active in the underground
and DIY community, one of the founders of Studio Straus collective and a Teacher in Musrara Art School.

MA in art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduate studies in stage and costume design at the University of Michigan; has been teaching literature and art history for many years, focusing on art schools and academies such as Bezalel and the School of Visual Theatre, closely involved in students’ projects; curated parallel exhibitions in Art Focus II; presently writing on accumulated experience of reading, interpretation and artistic creation, so unique to art school learning processes.

Yonatan Levi, a writer, director, artist, journalist and a teacher. lives in Tivon, and one of the funders of Shaked – Voldorf high school in Kiriat Tivon. a funder of Shech Abrek for civil culture. an ex editor of the magazine ‘Man World’. his first plays collection “Malchitavas – Liric Drama and Dramatic Poetry” was publish under “Dahak”, with the support of Hazira. working for a premier at the Luksemburg Opera House.