Programs for Choreographers
Choreographers Circle
An artistic accompaniment fellowship
Choreographers Circle is an artistic accompaniment program providing long-term, holistic support focused on sustained artist development. Intended for choreographers eager to engage in a challenging and collegial community, the Circle offers a rare opportunity for deep exchange among peers, broad creative imagining, artistic risk-taking, reflection, and future-building.
Over the course of a year, a selected cohort of five choreographers are supported through their existing commitments and artistic processes, without the expectation of a finished product. The program focuses on enriching the choreographer's ongoing artistic life through a dual structure of individual accompaniment and group engagement.
Each choreographer is granted a bank of hours for personalized, one-on-one artistic and professional guidance with Artistic Director Sarah Holcman who collaborates with each artist to flexibly utilize these hours toward the creation of a works, the navigation of professional challenges, and the pursuit of overarching career goals. Alongside this, the cohort comes together for a curated program of meetings, showings, discussions, and lectures with prominent figures from the professional fields of dance and culture.
2025-2026 Artists: Danielle Galia-Kind, Gilad Jerushalmy, Noa Shadur, Rachel Erdos, and Shaked Mochiach.
2023-2024 Artists: Andrea Costanzo Martini, Annabelle Dvir, Olivia Court Mesa, Roni Chadash, and Talia Beck
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Programs for Dancers
Toolkit
MentorshipProgram for Dancers
Toolkit is a mentorship program in which four experienced professional dancers meet regularly with 20 young dancers at different ages and stages of their careers for six months.
The mentors hold meetings with the participants once every two weeks, providing tools, knowledge from their extensive experience, and assistance in the ongoing conduct of the field from a professional, practical, and mental point of view. There are combined meetings for all participants on injury prevention and body maintenance, writing submissions and resumes, and showreel building.
Toolkit is artistically managed by Tamar Sonn and Nitsan Margaliot and was originally developed together with Laure Delion Paz. The program is subsidized by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Mentors 2022: Anat Vaadia, Keren Lurie Pardes, Ariel Friedman, Gilad Jerushalmy
Mentors 2023: Anat Vaadia, Keren Lurie Pardes, Shani Tamari, Tal Adler Arieli
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Perspectives from the Field
Residency for Dancers
Perspectives from the Field is a residency for dancers to deepen and expand the dancer-performer practice, independent of the choreographer. The residency invites dancers to investigate and articulate their individual practice and promote a dialogue that stems from the dancer's perspective, body of knowledge and experience, in dialogue with other forms of knowledge.
The program was held in cooperation and with the support of Seminar HaKibbutzim (2021) and Kelim Choreography Center (2022).
Artists of 2021: Shiraz Dagan, Naomi Katz, Danny Neuman, Eleanor Fuchs, Maya Schwartz
Artists of 2022: Ido Gidron, Tomer Giat, Gaya Lieberman, Hila Regev, Italy Meir, Nitzan Nisimov, Shachar Cohen, Keshet Ben Naim