Noa Zuk Cv&Bio 2015

Noa Zuk is a choreographer and a dancer. She was born and raised in Kibutz Sh'ar Ha'amakim in the north of Israel. She began dancing at the age of four, doing folk, modern, Ballet, Jazz and improvisation as well as Martial Arts (she is holding a black belt in Shotokan Karate). At the age of eighteen she began her professional life as a dancer with choreographers Inbal Pinto and Youval Pick and with the Young Kibutz Dance Company. A year later she joined The Batsheva Ensemble, Batsheva Dance Company's junior company, where she danced for three years, performing up to 120 shows a year, in Israel and abroad. In the year 2000 she joined Batsheva Dance Company (BDC), where she danced for nine years. As a company member under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin, Noa danced In all of his creations for the company during those years, and was part of the original cast of pieces such as Naharin's Virus, Mamutot, Telophaze, Three, Furo and Max. She performed hundred of shows and toured extensively on the company's many international tours, dancing on the world's most prestigious stages - BAM (NYC), Lincoln Center (NYC), Barbican centre (London), Montpelier Festival (France), .s Opera, to name only a few׳Reggio Emilia Festival (Italy) and Sidney During her time with BDC, she also worked with and performed works by choreographers such as Matz Ek (Kulberg Ballet), Sharon Eyal (LEV Dance Company) Jiri Kilian (NDT), Yasmin Godder and Yoshifumi Inao (Norwegian National Ballet). Noa left the company in 2009, to concentrate on her work as a choreographer. Among her early pieces are O.M.S., A Droom Come Tree and the trio Boxerman, which was performed by members of the Batsheva Ensemble in NYC. Her collaboration with interdisciplinary artist, Ohad Fishof, on the dance video One More Song was presented in Israel and abroad. In 2010, she was awarded The Schusterman Foundation Visiting Artist Scholarship and spent three months in residency at The Ohio State University in the United States. Her work Speaker premiered in Israel’s Curtain Up series in 2011. In 2012, her new creation for Bern Ballet premiered in Switzerland and she was also selected as one of ten ﬁnalists to present her work in the 5th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. In the fall of 2012 She had a second artist residency at The Ohio State University, where she premiered NOTHING II, a piece for 15 OSU dancers created in collaboration with Ohad Fishof and performed at the Wexner Center for the Arts. In 2013 she created After Chorus for GroundWorks Dance Theater in Cleveland Ohio and the solo Nothing III (co-created by Ohad Fishof), that was performed in the US, Israel, Russia and China. In 2013 she also premiered the duet Doom Doom Land as part of the International Dance Week in Jerusalem and toured it in Russia, Poland and The Czech Republic. In summer 2014 she was commissioned to create a new piece for Repertory Dance Theater in Utah. Following the success of staging a piece on Singapore's Frontier Danceland earlier that year, she was invited to create a new piece for the company, together with Ohad Fishof, premiered in November 2014. Her Latest work, Garden of Minutes, in collaboration with Ohad Fishof, was premiered as part of Curtain’s Up Festival in Tel Aviv, in November 2015. Noa is also a renown teacher. She has been teaching composition, technique and repertory workshops (both of her own work and of Naharin's choreographies) worldwide, and is a Gaga movement language teacher since 2007. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Noa Zuk! born 1978! [email protected]! www.noazuk.wordpress.com! ! Choreography! 2015 Garden of Minutes (4 dancers)! Choreography by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof! Commissioned by Curtain Up Festival, Tel Aviv! ! 2014 An Old Woman Picking Up A Stone From the Ground and Carrying it Back to Her House (6 dancers)! Choreography by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof! Commissioned by Frontier Danceland, Singapore! Premiered at Sota Theater Singapore! ! ! 2014 By The Snake (6 dancers)! Commissioned by Repertory Dance Theater ,Salt Lake City! Premiered at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, Utah,USA! ! 2013 Doom Doom Land (duet)! Commissioned by Machol Shalem Festival, Jerusalem! Premiered at The Karnaf Hall, Jerusalem, Israel! ! 2013 After Chorus (5 dancers)! Commissioned by GroundWorks Dance Theater, Cleveland, OH, USA! Premiered at E.J Thomas Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA! ! 2013 Nothing III (solo)! Choreography by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof! Premiered at Israeli Dance Festival La Mama Theater, NYC, USA! ! 2012 Nothing II (15 dancers)! choreography by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof! Created during an artist’s Residency at the Ohio State University's Department of Dance! Premiered at The Wexner Center for Arts, Columbus, OH, USA! ! 2012 Speakers (6 dancers) ! Commissioned by Ballet Bern, Switzerland! Premiered at Vidmar Theater, Bern, Switzerland ! ! 2011 Speaker (trio) ! Commissioned by Curtain’s Up Festival, Tel Aviv ! Premiered at Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 2010 A Droom Come Tree (duet) ! Dancers Create/Batsheva Dance Company ! Premiered at Varda Studio Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 2009 Two Solos (duet) ! Commissioned by Batsheva Dance Company for The Gazebo Project! Premiered at Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 2008 O.M.S. (duet) ! Dancers Create/Batsheva Dance Company ! Premiered at Varda Studio Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 2007 Boxerman (trio) ! Dancers Create/Batsheva Dance Company ! Premiered at Varda Studio Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel ! Restaging: ! - Batsheva Ensamble, NYC, USA, 2008! - Kibbutz Ga’aton Workshop,Israel, 2008! - Department of Dance, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,USA, 2010! ! 2006 Duet (duet) ! Dancers Create/Batsheva Dance Company ! Premiered at Varda Studio Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! Performance Experience ! 2000-2009 Batsheva Dance Company, Tel Aviv, Israel ! Performed in Ohad Naharin’s Anafaza, Decadance, Furo, Kyr, Mamootat, Max, Queens, Shalosh, Tabula Rasa, Telofaza, Virus ! Performed in Sharon Eyal’s Bertolina, Love, Macarova Cabisa! ! 1997-2000 Batsheva Ensemble, Tel Aviv, Israel ! Performed in Ohad Naharin’s Dance Party, Kamuyot, Kyr, Zachacha ! Performed in works by Yossi Berg, Yasmeen Godder, Ji"í Kylián, Yoakim ! Savate, Niv Sheinfeld, Ronit Ziv ! ! 1996 Atuf by Inbal Pinto, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 1996 Kvedim, Yuval Pick, Tel Aviv, Israel ! ! 1996 Kibbutz Junior Company, Kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel ! ! Teaching Experience ! 2000-present: Gaga movement language, classes for dancers and non- dancers, on going classes as well as summer Gaga Intensive, and Gaga Teacher Training Course! ! 2012: Choreography course, Department of Dance, Ohio State University! ! 2011-present: Repertory workshops and courses! ! 2010-2011 Assistant of Ohad Naharin in the staging of his original choreography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH & Tanzfabrick summer course, Berlin, Germany! ! Honors and Awards! ! 2014 Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts grant! Israel National Lottery Department for Art and Culture Grant! Young Choreographer Award from the Israel Ministry of Culture! 2012 Finalist in the Fifth Copenhagen International Choreography Competition ! 2010 Schusterman Foundation Visiting Artist Fund ! 2007 Yair Shapira Prize for Excellence in Dance! ! Video Collaborations ! 2015 Ohad Fishof, ADR, video! 2013 Michal Helfman & Ohad Fishof, %, video ! 2008 Ohad Fishof, One More Song, Video! ! Training ! 1991-1997 Ulpana for Dance in Emek Israel ,Kibbutz Mizrah! 1992-present Gaga movement language! ! ! ! .

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