Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in NYC since 2000. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship, a NYFA Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship. The artist’s work was presented by the American Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, La Mama, Harkness Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research; In Israel by Curtain-Up, Jerusalem International Dance Week, Intimadance, International-Exposure. Her collaborations with philosopher David Kishik include The Work of Dance in the Age of Sacred Lives, at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, Germany), and Critique of Pure Movement, an evening of theory and performance at the ICI Berlin. Residencies include Djerassi, DiP at Gibney Dance, Process Space & Swing Space at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin), Baryshnikov Arts Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Commissions for repertoire ensembles/universities: Ririe Woodbery (Salt Lake City), Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis), Same Planet Different World (Chicago), Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of Utah, the University of the Arts, Long Island University, Ha-Maslool (Tel Aviv), and at Salt Dance Festival (Utah). Netta danced for Joanna Kotze, Doug Varone and Dancers, Nancy Bannon, Karinne Keithley, Mark Jarecki, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. This residency was made possible with support from Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs.
Netta Yerushalmy will develop a series of dance experiments generated through a systematic deconstruction of landmark modern dance choreographies – performed alongside the contributions of writers, philosophers and historians who situate these iconic works within the larger project of modernity.
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