Teachers

Amit Landau
Born in 1998 in Israel. Graduated with honors from the Thelma Yellin High-School of the [Read on…]

Tanja Saban
Tanja is a dancer, Gaga teacher and Yoga practitioner. Born and raised in Switzerland, she [Read on…]

Gosia Mielech
Gosia Mielech is a dancer, choreographer, Gaga teacher and a dance educator. She completed the Gaga Teacher’s Training Course in 2018.

Hsin-Yi Hsiang
Hsin-Yi Hsiang, a native of Taiwan, was born in the year of pig. She received [Read on…]

Snunit Baraban
Snunit Baraban is a dancer and a certified Gaga teacher, based in Tel- Aviv. She completed [Read on…]

Alvin Collantes
Alvin is a certified Gaga teacher, photographer and dance artist based in Toronto, Canada. He completed the Gaga Teacher’s Training Course in 2017

Adi Salant
Adi Salant danced with the company from 1993-2001. After leaving Batsheva, Salant was a freelance [Read on…]

Adi Weinberg-Prejna
Adi received her dance training at the Haifa Program for Professional Dancers and did an apprenticeship in Vertigo Dance Company.

Amy Morrow
Amy Morrow is a teacher, choreographer,consultant & founder of AM Arts. She launched the TBX [ Toolbox Series ]to provide professional workshops & collaborations with international choreographers in Austin, Texas.

Andrea Costanzo Martini
Born in Italy, Andrea danced with the Batsheva Dance Company and Batsheva Ensemble between 2006 and 2010.

Anna Long
Anna was certified in Gaga with the pilot Gaga Teacher Training Program in 2012. She is based in Chicago.

Annemarie Kaufmann
In 2011-2012, Annemarie participated in the first Gaga Teacher Training Program in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is currently based in Bern, Switzerland and teaches Gaga.

Ariadna Montfort
A former member of Batsheva Ensemble and the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, Ariadna is currently working with La Veronal as a freelance dancer based in Barcelona.

Delphine Jungman
Delphine Jungman is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She began her professional adventure in 2010 [Read on…]

Berit Ahlgren
Berit works as a freelance performer, choreographer, and instructor-Gaga, pilates and yoga, between Minneapolis and New York City.

Bret Easterling
Bret Easterling has been surrounded by dance ever since he was born in Palo Alto, [Read on…]

Bosmat Nossan
In April 2008, Bosmat joined Batsheva Dance Company. She has taught Gaga/people for six years.

Candace Scarborough
Candace Scarborough was born and raised in the Baltimore area. She received a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a recipient of the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship

Caroline Boussard
Caroline joined the junior company Batsheva Ensemble from where she continued to the main group of Batsheva Dance Company until 2009.

Catherine Coury
Catherine Coury is a native of Detroit and graduate of the University of Michigan. Since 2010

Chen-Wei Lee
Chen-Wei Lee studied dance in Taipei National University of Art ,and graduated in 2008. The [Read on…]

Chiaki Horita
Chiaki Horita was born in Japan in 1989. She studied at the Ikemoto Ballet School [Read on…]

Chisato Ohno
A former member of NDT2 and Batsheva Dance Company, Chisato Ohno teaches Gaga in London.

Clea Onori
Clea participated in the Gaga Teacher Training Program 2011-2012 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Danielle Agami
From 2002 through 2005, Danielle danced with the Batsheva Ensemble under the artistic directorship of Ohad Naharin, and she was a member of Batsheva Dance Company from 2005-2010.

David Liu
David is currently finishing his MFA degree in Dance and became a certified Gaga teacher in 2012.

Deborah Friedes Galili
A native of New Jersey, Deborah is currently based in Tel Aviv. She teaches Gaga and dance history, and she researches, writes, and lectures about dance in Israel.

Doron Perk
Born in 1990, Doron studied at the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem and the [Read on…]

Doron Raz Avraham
In 2000, at the age of sixteen, Doron was accepted to the Batsheva Ensemble. While maintaining an active schedule as a performer and creator, she has been teaching Gaga since 2005.

Doug Letheren
Doug joined Batsheva Ensemble in 2007 and continued to the Batsheva Dance Company from 2008 to 2012, and he is now a founding member of Sharon Eyal’s new project, L-E-V.

Ella Rothschild
Ella danced with Batsheva Ensemble from 2006-2008 and Batsheva Dance Company from 2008-2010.

Emma Rozgoni
Emma is a dance artist living and working in Stockholm. She holds her BA degree [Read on…]

Erez Zohar
Erez joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2002 and danced with Batsheva Dance Company from 2005-2012.

Etay Axelroad
Etay Axelrod was Born in 1995, graduated from Blich High School in Ramat Gan.
Attended in the American Academy of Ballet Summer Course (2012), Peridance School in Manhattan (2013), and SIBA in Salzburg under full scholarships.

Genna Moroni
Genna Moroni graduated from the L.A. County High School for the Arts and magna cum [Read on…]

Gavriel Spitzer
Gavriel was a dancer with the Batsheva Ensemble and the Batsheva Dance Company from 2000-2008.

Géraldine Chollet
Géraldine Chollet trained at the Laban Centre (London). Back in Switzerland, she has worked and performed with different companies as a dancer (Cie Jessica Huber, Cie Philippe Saire, Cie Prototype-Status, Cie Gaspard Buma, Cie Fabienne Berger, Collectif Utilité Publique) and as a comedian (cie Emilie Charriot, Cie Alakran).

Gili Navot
Gili joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 1999, and she performed as a member of Batsheva Dance Company from 2001-2008.

Guy Shomroni
Guy began dancing with Batsheva Ensemble in 2001 and performed with Batsheva Dance Company from 2004-2012.

Hadar Katz
Hadar is a certified jazz, hip hop, Pilates, and Gaga teacher. She currently teaches hip hop and Gaga.

Hillel Kogan
Hillel Kogan is a choreographer, dancer, dramaturge and teacher. Kogan has been creating dance works [Read on…]

Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson was born in Bangor, Maine USA. He trained with the Robinson Ballet and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA.

Idan Porges
From 2005-2007, Idan was a dancer in the Batsheva Ensemble, and from 2007-2008, he danced in the international cast of Ohad Naharin’s Kamuyot as part of a project of the Riksteatern.

Ido Gidron
Ido was born in 1995 in Shoresh and is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance High School, He danced with Batsheva Ensemble between 2014-2017.

Iyar Elezra
Iyar joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2005 and was promoted to Batsheva Dance Company in 2008.

James Viveiros
James Viveiros is a graduate of both the Grant MacEwan College Music Theatre and Dance Programs in Edmonton Alberta.

Kelvin Vu
Kelvin Vu is a freelance dancer and teacher based in Tel Aviv. He grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Yale University, where he received his BA in Environmental Studies.

Keren Rosenberg
Keren completed her education in the special pilot of the Gaga Teacher Training Program at the Batsheva Dance Company complex in Tel Aviv in 2012. She teaches in Europe.

Kornelia Maria Tamara Lech
Kornelia Maria Tamara Lech was born in 1991 in Poznań, Poland. She graduated from the [Read on…]

Laura Toma
Born in Romania and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Laura is a contemporary dance artist living [Read on…]

Lee Sher
In 2000, Lee established LeeSaar The Company with the choreographer Saar Harari. Lee started to learn Gaga in 2005 and leads classes to her company on daily basis.

Leia Weil
Leia is currently dancing with Nehara Dance Company in Tel Aviv and is the director of the Dance Division of the Tel Aviv Arts Council.

Lior Zohar
Lior Zohar was born in Israel in 1988 and grew up in Jerusalem. He graduated from the “Academy of Music and Dance” in Jerusalem in 2006. As a student he received three scholarships for excellence in dance from the “American Israel cultural foundation”.

Madison Hoke
Madison Hoke is from Fairmont, West Virginia. She is an alumnus of The San Francisco [Read on…]

Maree ReMalia
Maree ReMalia is a choreographer, performer, and educator. Born in South Korea, and raised in [Read on…]

Mario Zambrano
Mario Alberto Zambrano danced for Batsheva Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nederlands Dans Theater, and Ballet Frankfurt between the years 1994-2005 before returning to school and attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for an MFA in English, where he received the John C. Schupes Fellowship for Excellence in Fiction.

Marija Slavec
Marija danced with Batsheva Ensemble (2009-2012) and joined Vertigo Dance Company in 2012.

Maya Tamir
After a year as an understudy with the Batsheva Ensemble, Maya joined as a dancer in 2010.

Michal Sayfan
Michal Sayfan was born in Israel.
She danced in Nadine Bommer’s dance company between 2001 and 2004 before joining Batsheva’s ensemble in 2005.

Mirjam Karvat
Prior to joining the Gaga Teacher Training Program in 2011, Mirjam danced in the musical RENT in Basel/Switzerland. She teaches Gaga in Israel, Switzerland, and Germany.

Moran Zilberberg
Moran is a former member of the Batsheva Ensemble, Emanuel Gat Dance, and the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company.

Mourad Bouayad
Mourad was born in Paris in 1990. He trained in Hip-hop with Dominique Lisette and [Read on…]

Natalia Iwaniec
Natalia was born in Poland and is now a freelance dancer and teacher based in Europe.

Natalia Vik
Natalia has worked as a freelance dancer and dance teacher in Norway, Denmark, and Israel and was certified as a Gaga teacher in 2012 through the Gaga Teacher Training Program.

Nataša Novotná
After graduating from Janáček conservatoire in Ostrava, Czech Republic,
Nataša danced with the Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Gothenburg Ballet and
Nederlands Dans Theatre 1 between years 1997 – 2007.

Navarra Novy-Williams
Navarra spent a year dancing in the Batsheva Ensemble and is currently dancing for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York City.

Noa Paran
Noa trained as a dancer in the Kadima community center and from 2007-2010 performed with the Batsheva Ensemble.

Noa Zuk
Noa joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 1997 and was a member of Batsheva Dance Company between 2000 and 2009.

Ohad Fishof
Ohad is an artist and musician working in a diverse range of fields including sound, dance, video, performance, and installation.

Olivia Ancona
Olivia was a member of the Batsheva Ensemble from 2010-2012 and joined Batsheva Dance Company in 2015.

Paul Vickers
Paul grew up outside of Chicago, Illinois and received his B.A. in Dance with a [Read on…]

Rachael Osborne
Rachael Osborne, born in Australia 1980, trained at the National Capital Ballet School under Janet Karin OAM. She completed an Associate Degree in Dance at QUT

Rebecca Hytting
Rebecca has worked with Batsheva Ensemble, Batsheva Dance Company, Carte Blanche Contemporary Dance Company, the Gothenburg Opera Danskomani, and L-E-V.

Robin Lesley Nimanong
Robin, dancer with the Batsheva ensemble since 2016. Before he studied Jazz/Urban at Fontys Tilburg [Read on…]

Ron Amit
In 2003, Ron joined the Batsheva Ensemble and during the next three years performed in works by choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Arkadi Zaides, Sharon Eyal, and Osnat Kelner.

Saar Harari
In 2000, Saar established LeeSaar The Company with Lee Sher, relocating to NYC in 2004. He teaches in New York.

Shaked Dagan
Shaked danced in the joint project of Batsheva Dance Company and the Riksteatern in Sweden in a tour of Ohad Naharin’s Kamuyot.

Shaked Leibzirer
Shaked danced with Batsheva Ensemble from 2011-2013 and is currently studying mathematics at the Technion.

Shane Scopatz
Shane Scopatz graduated from University of California Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts and danced with Batsheva Ensemble from 2012-2015.

Shani Garfinkel
Shani started to teach Gaga in 2005 both people and dancers and danced with Batsheva until December 2012.

Sharon Dvir
Sharon became certified as a Gaga teacher after studying in the Gaga Teacher Training Program from 2011-2012.

Shi Pratt
Shi has taught the different companies’ repertoire and techniques, and continues teaching Gaga as well as her own choreographic work in various classes and workshops around the world.

Siri Wolthoorn
Siri Wolthoorn was born in 1985 in Aarhus, Denmark. She is educated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam, and has worked with Batsheva Ensemble, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre, Recoil Performance Group, Danish Dance Theatre, Ari Rosenzweig and Itzik Galili.

Stefanie Nevo
In 2011-2012, Stefanie participated in the first Gaga Teacher Training Program. She is based in Zürich, Switzerland and travels regularly to Tel Aviv.

Stephanie Troyak
Stephanie danced with the Batsheva Ensemble from 2015-2016 and is currently a dancer with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

Tamir Eting
Tamir Eting was born in 1990 and is a graduate of the HaMaslool training program for dancers at Bikurei Haitim in Tel Aviv.

Tom Weinberger
Tom joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2005 and the Batsheva Dance Company in August 2008.

Thibaut Eiferman
Thibaut Eiferman grew up in New York City. He danced with Ballet BC in Vancouver, [Read on…]

Uri Shafir
Uri is an actor, dancer, and performance maker who danced in the Batsheva Ensemble from 2007-2010.

Wies Van Houplines
Currently Wies is teaching Gaga as well as modern, ballet and jazz, and working on dance projects in collaboration with live piano and live plastic arts.

Ya’ara Dolev
Ya’ara was born in Arad, Israel. Ya’ara started her dance training when she was five, [Read on…]

Yaara Moses
Yaara joined the Batsheva Ensemble at the age of 18 and later was invited to join the main company, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin.

Yael Schnell
Yael Schnell danced with Batsheva Ensemble, Batsheva Dance Company, and Sasha Waltz & Guests and is based in Berlin.

Yankalle Filtser
Yankalle Filtser is an independent dancer, a young choreographer and an Ilan Lev practitioner. He worked as a dancer in the Inbal Dance Company and as a student in the Batsheva Young Ensemble.

Yaniv Avraham
Yaniv began dancing with Batsheva Ensemble in 2002 and performed with Batsheva Dance Company from 2004-2010. He is currently the artistic director of MASPA.

Yasmin Mahmoud
Yasmin danced for the LeeSaar The Company, Ate9 Dance Company, and Batsheva the Young Ensemble. Yasmin became a Gaga teacher in 2018.

Zina Zinchenko
Zina Zinchenko was born in Moscow, Russia. She started her dance education with Nikolay Ogruzkov in The Contemporary Dance School in Moscow at the age of 12. She graduated from CODARTS in the Netherlands with a BA degree in 2007.