Dana Ruttenberg - Israeli born dancer and choreographer, Dana Ruttenberg graduated from The Bat-Dor School of Dance and the Thelma Yelin High-school for Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. in Dance from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University.
between 2000-2003 As artistic director of her NY based dance troupe, The Red Hill Project, she has created works that showcased at various venues, including Dancenow/NYC, Joyce Soho, Mulberry Theater's Newsteps Festival, University Settlement, Minor Latham Playhouse, White Wave, and Toronto Fringe Festival, among others. Since her return to Israel in 2003, she has been teaching, giving workshops and choreographing for the Batsheva Dance Ensemble, OtherDance Festival, IntimaDance Festival, and Dance Arena festival, to name a few. Her piece 'Park part I" and evening of works titled "On All Fours" was chosen to be part of the repertory of Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv. She was chosen to take part in the inaugural year of the Sugar Salon Residency in New York, where she created alongside Bessies Award Winner Susan Marshall. The resulting work, titled "pixels on the Rocks" awarded her the 2nd prize at the A.W.A.R.D Show in NY's Joyce Soho. in 2008, Ruttenberg created the works "Kontrapunkt" and "Please Do Not Feed The Dancers" for Hazira Theater in Jerusalem. in 2009, she created a revolutionary interdisciplinary piece titled NABA, which had audiences geared with audio guides, choosing their own soundtrack for the piece live.

Most recently Ruttenberg created the duet "Private I's" to an original live score by Noam Inbar and Adam Scheflan, and the gender-flexible trio POLY set to the Chaconne in D Minor by J.S. Bach which is alternately performed by revolving all-male, all-female and mixed casts, examining the shifts in meaning caused by the change in the performing bodies.

Dana continues to create choreography for various theater productions throughout Israel, and participate in festivals and competitions in Israel and abroad (Senegal, USA, Hungary, South Africa and Siberia to name a few). She teaches and gives workshops regularly. She was recently chosen as one of "The Future Generation" women by The Marker W Magazine.

to see Dana talking about her work and her inspirations on the Leadel website, please click here

 

Dana is a member of the Israeli Choreographers' Association: www.choreographers.org.il