Choreographers Circle
Meet the 2025-2026 Choreographers Circle
Danielle Gallia-Kind is a mother, choreographer, educator, and advocate for change. Her artistic research focuses on embodied maternal knowledge and the unique movement language and imagination it generates. She currently leads the Mothers’ Parliament - an international project gathering M/others around the urgent need to fight for our future with tools of thought, inspiration, and creation - in collaboration with Merav Dagan. Danielle’s work has been presented in theaters, museums, and festivals across Israel, Europe, and the United States.
Since October 7, 2023, she has traveled internationally to amplify the voices of mothers, advocate for the return of hostages, and foster global collaborations to envision hope and a shared future in the face of uncertainty. Danielle holds an MA in Choreography from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. She is a practitioner of the Ilan Lev Method.
Gilad Jerushalmy is an independent dancer and creator. Alongside his own choreographic works, he creates works for dance programs and young dance companies, teaches professional dancers and companies regularly, and leads movement research for the elderly as well as parents with infants.
Gilad’s works have been presented across Israel in Curtain Up, Machol Shalem International Dance Week, Dance Arena Festival by HAZIRA, IntimaDance and A-Genre Festivals at Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv Dance, TLVFest, Kelim Choreography Center, and Inbal Dance Theater, among others. He has received residencies from DOCK11, Germany; La Rotonde Québec; ART OMI, New York; Menashe Dance House and Bikurey Ha'Itim, Israel. He is the recipient of a 2023 Independent Creators Fund grant from the Ministry of Culture and Rabinovich Foundation grants in 2018 and 2022.
Gilad has been a dancer with Emanuel Gat Dance Company (France) since 2020. As a performer, he has collaborated with numerous other choreographers including Reut Shemesh, Sebastian Zuber, Rachel Erdos, Elad Schechter, Arkadi Zaides, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Jason Danino-Holt, Mor Shani, Ronit Ziv, and Olivia Court Mesa, among others. Gilad studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance - SEAD (Austria), the Maslool – Professional Dance Program Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and Hakvutza – School for Movement and Dance for Adults, Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Shaked Mochiach is a choreographer, musician, and dancer. She creates choreography for human encounters, exploring the potential for shared transcendence in the dancing body. She is interested in the human process unfolding within the creative process, giving birth to aesthetic movement and performance. In 2021, Shaked founded the Moon-Dreamers Ensemble, her performance group consisting of people with diverse identities, ages, and experiences. Her work has been presented across Israel in Curtain Up, Acre Festival, Kelim Dance Festival, and IntimaDance Festival, among others.
Shaked is dedicated to building bridges between contemporary dance and culturally and socio-economically diverse communities and she regularly works with groups of non-dancers. In 2024, she established The Bonfire, a program for physical and spiritual exploration in dance and performance. From 2022-2019 she was the artistic director of the Art Workshop Center Ramat Eliyahu where she established a residency program for artists, created training programs, and served as a curator and producer.
Shaked completed the two-year choreography program at Kelim Choreography Center and she is the recipient of a 2022-24 Community Dancer Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and a 2021 residency at the Yasmeen Godder Studio. In 2023, Shaked released her debut album, "Purple."
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Rachel Erdos is an independent choreographer, teacher, and artistic advisor. Born in the UK, she has been based in Tel Aviv for over 20 years. Rachel has been commissioned to create works for numerous dance companies and schools and teaches extensively to both professionals and non-professionals. She serves as a dramaturg and artistic advisor to other choreographers and was the artistic director of Machol Shalem’s Dance Week Festival 2020-24. In 2025, Rachel established an incubator for the creation of dance works for young audiences in collaboration with Bikurei Ha’Itim.
Rachel’s work has been commissioned by numerous companies including Panta Rei Dance Theatre, Norway; MOVING into Dance Mophatong, South Africa; Company E, Washington DC; Northwest Dance Project, USA; and Living Space Theatre, Poland, among others. Her work has been presented at prestigious festivals and venues including Prisma Festival, Panama; Rencontres Chorégraphiques, Paris; Singapore Fringe Festival; The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC; The Joyce, New York; and the Royal Opera House London.
Rachel has received numerous awards including: 2015 Independent Choreographer prize from the Ministry of Culture; 2009 City Dance Ensemble commissioning project, Washington DC; and 2008 First Prize Aarhus International Choreography Competition, Denmark. In 2018 she was a visiting artist at Brown University. Rachel holds a MA from The Laban Centre London.
Noa Shadur is an independent choreographer and video artist. Her work explores how embodied cultural, social, and historical contexts shape collective dynamics and is characterized by the tension between structure and freedom. Shadur's artistic process is rooted in cultural research which she reinterprets through the lens of the “contemporary” body and society.
Among Shadur’s works are Suddenly We Were All Alone, a commission for the Inbal Dance Theater; and Entropy, based on Shadur’s study and interpretation of Noa Eshkol’s original dance compositions , produced by The Lottery Council for the Arts and in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as part of a national project reexamining works by pioneering Israeli choreographers 1950-1990. Shadur also created choreography for the acclaimed play Ghetto, by Joshua Sobol (China national tour 2019). Her works have been presented internationally including at Pavillon Noir, Aix En Provence (France); Dance New Amsterdam (New York City, USA); Korzo Theatre, Den Haag (Netherlands), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel); and Galeria Sztuki (Poland), among others.
Noa has taught and created at institutions including Artez Institute for the Arts in the Netherlands, the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, Kibbutzim College of Education - Technology and the Arts in Tel Aviv, and University of Chichester, England. She was a 2019 Visiting Artist at Indiana University, as part of the Schusterman Foundation artist residency program. Shadur has won distinguished prizes including the No Ballet Choreography Competition (Germany); American Dance Festival Dancing for the Camera (USA); and Emerging Choreographer from the Ministry of Culture in 2009, 2014, and 2017. Noa holds a BA in Dance from ArtEZ Institute for the Arts, Netherlands and is currently pursuing an MA in Documentary Film Studies at Tel Aviv University.
2023-2024 Choreographers Circle
Andrea Costanzo Martini was born and raised in Italy where he began his studies in dance at Danzicherie in Cuneo and Teatro Nuovo in Turin, followed by Heinz Bost Stiftung Ballet Academy. He has performed with Aalto-Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, and Deborah Hay, among others. He danced with the Batsheva Ensemble and Batsheva Dance Company.
His choreographic works have been presented internationally including: Curtain Up Festival, Anticorpi XL in Ravenna, Teatro a Corte Festival, InTeatro Polverigi Festival, Fabrik Potsdam, K3 Hamburg, Shanghai Int. Dance Center, The Place London, Zurich Tanzhaus, HochX Munich, BMotion Festival, InTeatro Festival, Brigittines, Charleroi Danse, Pavillon Noir/Preljocaj, MAAT Festival Poland, and La briqueterie. He has been commissioned to create dances for Cullberg Ballet, Dance Makers Collective, Rome Ballet, Turin Ballet Theater, and Balletto di Roma. In 2021 he created PayPer Play, a work for a young audience supported by Explore Dance, and Mood Shifters as part of Curtain Up Festival. In 2022 he was commissioned to create Wild Thoughts for NDCwales.
Awards include: first prize for Performance and Choreography, International Tanz Solo Competition Stuttgart; 2015 Public Award from Mas Danza; Second Prize 2016 Jerusalem International Choreography Competition; and he was named “artist to watch” by TimeOut Tel Aviv in 2019. Andrea has taught Gaga and improvisation for companies including Batsheva Company and Ensemble, Cullberg Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, and many others. He is an associate artist of the VAN Cultural Association (ITALY) and a member of the Israeli Choreographers Association.
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Annabelle Dvir is an Israeli-Georgian choreographer, voice artist, live sound composer and performer who researches live art through the tension between sensation and perception, the heard and the seen. She creates extreme physical-vocal practices and examines the aesthetics that merge between the worlds of reality and fantasy. Through a musical-choreographic eye she composes the embodiment of live sound and the visual shapes of alternating soundscapes in order to transform human preconception, emotions and inner desires. Her work centers the “performance body” as visual, audial-sonoric, and plastic frequencies. Her work has been presented in Germany, Croatia, Italy, Georgia, Denmark, Spain, Lithuania, France, and the USA.
Annabelle earned her MA and BA with Dean’s honors from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and graduated from Kelim Choreography Center’s 2-year program. She is the winner of the 2017 Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for outstanding emerging choreographers and the 2022 Ministry of Culture Award for artists in their first ten years of activity. In 2018 she received a DanceWEB scholarship and the Art Excellence Award of Holon Municipality. Annabelle is a member of The Israeli Choreographers Association, and CAMPI - Jerusalem Dance and Performance Community.
Olivia Court Mesa is a Chilean-Israeli dance artist. Devoted to performance art for the past 25 years, she is a choreographer, performer, teacher, improviser, and researcher. Olivia started dancing in Chile with Oscar del Bardo’s physical theater company. In 1998, she moved to Germany and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She worked as a freelancer in Germany with VeraSanderArtConnects and Angulo Alterno (Mexico), followed by MSschrittmacher in the Theater of Oldenburg and then Marco Santi Tanztheater in the Theater of Osnabrück where she worked with Guy Weizman & Roni Haver, Martin Stiefermann, Marco Santi, Luc Dunberry, Massimo Gerardi, Verena Weiss and Antje Rose, among others. She has been based in Israel since 2010 where she has performed with Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Renana Raz, Sahar Azimi, Roy Assaf, Dafi Altabeb, Rotem Tashach, and Sharona Florsheim, among others.
Olivia’s works have been presented in Israel, Europe, and South America.
She has received many awards including: 2017 Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Best Solo Performer; 2022 Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, XL Production award, Audience award, and two Partner awards; and 2022 Ministry of Culture Award for Best Performance.
Olivia studied the Ilan Lev method and is a teacher of floor work, contact improvisation and partnering work with a clear approach to anatomy and functional movement. She is a member of the contact improvisation community in Israel and the founder of The Common Body with her partner Yochai Ginton. She is a mother of three.
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Roni Chadash is an independent choreographer, performer and teacher, based in Tel-Aviv. Roni graduated with honors from the dance department of Hayuval High School and studied dance at Vertigo Dance Company’s training program and Gaaton Dance Workshop. In 2014, Roni began to create her own work. In her movement research, Roni deconstructs the body into joints that function independently. She is in a constant search for instinctive, emotional and raw motives for movement. She attempts to deconstruct the body, movement, image, the relationship between the audience and the performers, and the act of the performance itself. She peels the body from its history, stereotypes and dictated labeling, and confronts it with the naked present. Roni has received numerous awards including the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Young Choreographers (2018, 2021) and Shades in Dance Award (2015).
As a dancer, Roni has collaborated with various choreographers including Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Maya Brinner, Odelya Kuperberg, and Satoshi Kudo. She teaches contemporary dance classes and repertoire at the most prestigious dance schools in Israel. Her classes are based on the physical principles of her language: discovering the instincts of movements, releasing muscle and focusing on spine movement, using direction in space to find balance and go beyond physical limitations.
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Talia Beck is an independent dancer and choreographer based in Tel Aviv.
As a dancer she has worked with Vertigo Dance Company, Noa Dar, Roy Assaf, Netta Yerushalmy, Ella Rothschild, Yasmeen Godder, Bruno Listopad, and The Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company where she also collaborated as rehearsal director, choreographic assistant and staging their work around the world.
Among her works are:
Saudade (2009) and Ma’atzama (2010) for the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company; The Botany of Desire (2013); W (2016); COLONIA (2018); ESTERS (2019); HHH (2020) for The Batsheva Ensemble; ABSERT (2020); and The Moon is a Girl with the Sun in her Eyes (2022).
Talia studied Philosophy and Art at Tel Aviv University. She received her Masters in Choreography from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
In 2021 She began studying nursing at the Sheinborn Nursing School at Ichilov Hospital.