HAGIT ABIR

Hagit is a graduate of Bezalel Academy Of Art And Design,  Jerusalem 2001. In 2003 Hagit Studied Stage Design with Rakefet Levi at  Shenkar College of Design. Following her Studies at Shenkar she went on to Study makeup for stage &Theatre and Hat design with Sofia Bach. Since 2004 Hagit has designed costumes and props for major opera, dance, theatre and television productions.

These selected works include:

Dana Ruttenberg Dance Group - Private I’s and POLY
The Israeli Opera - " Magic Sounds", directed by Niza Shaul
Props  for - "Nabucco","A Journey to the End of the Millennium"
"The Child Dreams","Samson and Delilah"
Batsheva Dance Company - " Beak" and "Starting Point", choreography by Mami Shimazaki
Batsheva Workshop - choreography by Kristin Inao
Kame'a Dance Company (Bat-Dor) -  "Step...Count....", choreography by Lior Lev
Kolbendance Dance Company - "Interface", choreography by Amir Kolban
Michal Helbin Photography
Beit Lessin Theater - "Dolphins", directed by Dedi Baron
Habima National Theater - "39 Stairs", "Hevron", "Dybbuk", and "Anna Karenina"
The Cameri Theater of Tel-Aviv - "King Lear " and "Death of a Salesman"
TV Commercials

TAL ADLER ARIELI

Tal Adler Arieli, born in 1989, is a dance artist and a movement teacher. He studied at the Thelma Yelin High School of the Arts, and later graduated with a BFA from The Juilliard School in New York. 
As a teacher, Tal teaches regularly at Ironi Alef High School of Arts in Tel Aviv, and the Inbal Dance Company. He was glad to start teaching this past year at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Tal enjoys teaching a wide array of students between professional dancers and people who dance, with the intention of making movement more accessible and the body more understandable.
He currently lives in Tel Aviv, and as a dancer he collaborated with numerous choreographers such as Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Yasmeen Godder, Roy Assaf, Dana Ruttenberg, Guy Gutman, Public Movement of Dana Yahalomi, and more.

During the past year Tal performed the iconic work 'Kiss' by Tino Sehgal for a 6-week run at the Tel Aviv Museum, and also created a solo for himself as part of the Intimadance festival.  
During his time living in New York (2007-2015) Tal worked with Andrea Miller's Gallim Dance and with The Equus Projects which is a dance company that creates site-specific work for dancers and horses. He also danced with choreographer Jonah Bokaer, and with company Le Carré des Lombes in Montreal.  

CARMEL BEN ASHER

Carmel Ben-Asher was Born in 1994. Graduate of Blich high school dance department and Ga’aton Dance workshop. As a freelance dancer collaborated with the choreographers: Yasmeen Godder, Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof, Osnat Kelner, Hillel Kogan, Roni Chadash, Tamar Borer, Nina Traub and Dana Ruttenberg. Created the piece “Evening” for Intimadance festival in collaboration with Zuki Ringart. Recipient of the danceWEB Scholarship program for 2017 at ImPulsTanz, Vienna international dance festival. Alongside her professional path started a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities. 

EINAT BETSALEL

Einat Betsalel is a rehearsal manager, entrepreneurial producer and artistic director, has a bachelor’s degree in management and sociology and a master’s degree in non-profit management in the Schwartz program at the Hebrew University,

Betsalel danced professionally in various groups, such as Inbal Pinto and Abshalom Pollak, the kibbutz dance company, and choreographers Naa Shador, Ariel Cohen, Barak Marshall, Shlomi Biton, Dana Ruttenberg, Noa Dar, Renana Raz and others. She conducted rehearsals as part of the “Maslool dance program” under the directing of Naomi Perlov and Ofir Dagan”, Inbal dance company, Lior Tabori and more. She worked as an artistic director at the Ra’anana Dance Center under the Culture Department of the Ra’anana Municipality and produced dance festivals such as “Dance Tel Aviv”.
Today she is a freelance rehearsal director, and director of an Arab Jewish cultural center in Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salam, where she lives.

ADI BOUTROuS

Adi Boutrous is a choreographer, dancer and soundtrack designer. Among his works: “What Really Makes Me Mad”, “It’s Always Here”, “One More Thing”, “Reflections” (2023) and “Camera Obscura” (2025). In 2022, Adi was awarded the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Prize for Dance Creation for his body of work. As a dancer, he has worked with choreographers Hillel Kogan, Iris Erez, Dana Ruttenberg and more.

In parallel with his choreography, Adi is a record collector and selector. The types of music he collects and plays cross genres, periods and geographical boundaries: music from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East, and European classical music. As part of this channel of his activity, Adi holds performative listening events, in which spaces are created for the act of shared listening.

RAN BROWN

Head of the dance department at the Thelma Yellin high school of the arts and dance critic at Haaretz newspaper. He began his professional career in a dance workshop run by Yehudit Arnon (Kibbutz Ga'aton), danced with the Muza dance company in Tel Aviv and in the works of independent choreographers. Graduate of the Interdisciplinary Arts Master's Program at Tel Aviv University and the Teacher Training Program (Bachelor's Degree in Education) at the Kibbutzim Seminar. After years of practical teaching of contemporary dance, in recent years he has focused on dance research and writing. Ran is the founder of the online journal Maakaf, and the editor of the book "A Place for Action: Contemporary Choreography in Theory and Practice."

Shmuel halfon

Graduate of The The Maslool Professional Dance Pogram under the Artistic Direction of Naomi Perlov and Offir Dagan.
Shmuel Danced with "Tzivei Machol” Dance company (Artistic director: Itzik Cohen) and was a member of The Inbal Dance Theatre, performing in works by Mor Shani, Noa Shadur and Brarak Marshall.
As a freelance dacer, Shmuel worked with Dana Ruttenberg, Sharon Vazanna, Anya Brud Tal, Sahar Azimi, Dana Marcus, Renana Raz, Itzik Gallili, Ido Gidron and Yael Schiller. 
He also performs regulary with the theatre Beit Lessin, participated twice in Project 48 Dance and performed in Maurice Bejar's "Bolero" at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.
Shmuel is a certified yoga instructor, and teaches repertory and technique workshops across Israel.

AYALA FRENKEL

Born in 1986. Collaborated with different choreographers, such as Ohad Naharin ("Kamuyot" project), Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, Tamar Borer, Anna Rotlisbereger (Switzerland), Maya Brinner, Iris Erez, Yasmeen Godder and Bosmat Nossan. Created "Gazelle" and "2HER".
Member of DRDG since 2011. 
Ayala has a professional background in Ballroom and Latin American Dance. She is a practitioner of the Ilan Lev Method.

MICHAEL GETMAN

 
Michael Getman is a Tel Aviv-based choreographer. Michael examines and is curious about the intricate interplay and relationship between ideas, words, and embodied knowledge, often using sound, visual, and linguistic stimuli, encouraging real-time cognitive responses. He began his ballet training in a small living room with his grandmother. Then, he attended the Bat Dor School of Dance, directed by Mrs. Jennette Ordman and founded by Baroness Bethsabée de Rothschild. His professional dancing career started with an invitation from Naomi Perlov to join the Batsheva Ensemble. He was soon invited to join the leading Batsheva Company. He had the opportunity to develop his skills and artistry, mainly with the Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin, and the
Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly, Amanda Miller. He collaborated with Dana Ruttenberg as a performer in “Private I’s” and a choreographer in two editions of “Project 48 Dance”.
Michael holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) from the School of Arts& Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, England.His works have been presented in festivals and venues, including the Israel Museum, Akko Festival, Tel Aviv Dance Festival, Holland Dance Festival, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, Nowy Teater, Warsaw, Dance In Rete, Italy, Belgrade Dance Festival, Gender Bender, Bologna,
among others. Michael occasionally works in Theatre and Ethnography, researching and facilitating artistic expression with various communities and cultures. Recently, he was involved with the "Songs and Borders" project, tracing the liturgy, hymns, and traditional texts of the cultures and minorities in northern Israel.

YAIR GUTTERMAN

Artist and Designer. Studied Industrial Design at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Designed for David Ross Studio, and designs lamps and furniture for Gwango, China. Won second prize in the design competition for Zag company, "Furniture 2000" Tel-Aviv. Showcased in "International Travel Souvenir Design competition 2005" Gyeonggi Province ‚Korea, and "kitchen is the heart of the home" imm cologne design competition. Collaborated with DRDG on Kontrapunkt and NABA.

neil DAVID harris

Neil Harris  trained in acting and performance at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and went on to perform in political theater in Scotland, before moving to Israel in 1979 as a founder member of Kibbutz Tuval. For a number of years he taught theater to young adults with a criminal record, and in the Community Theater Department at Haifa University specializing in The Theater of the Oppressed. In 2005 he started combining his theater work with dance, and in 2010 he was invited to join the faculty of the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, teaching courses on Performance and Activism, as well as mentoring MFA in Dance candidates in their thesis productions, and himself performing in some dance works that toured the USA. In the past few years, Neil has been working with a number of Israel-based artists as a performer and also as a loosely defined dramaturg/third eye/assistant/critical voice/teacher. Neil collaborated with DRDG on Dream Team (2017).

GILAD JERUSALMY

An independent choreographer and dancer. His works have been presented across Israel in various Festivals and Theaters, such as: Curtain Up Project, Suzanne Dellal’s Tel Aviv Dance festival, Machol Shalem’s International Dance Week, Tmuna Theatre's  Intima Dance Festival and more. As a dancer Gilad has collaborated with choreographers in Israel and Europe, such as: Dana Ruttenberg, Reut Shemesh, Arkadi Zaides, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Jason Danino-Holt, Mor Shani and Emanuel Gat. 

Gilad creates works for dance programs and young dance companies. He teaches professional dancers and companies and leads movement research for elderly men and women as well as parents with infants.

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.