Or MARIN: like a sex machine

előadó: Eli COHEN (IL), Uri DICKER (IL)

koreográfus: Or MARIN (IL)

Eli COHEN (1990, ES/IL) was born in 1990 Spain and grew up in Israel. As a young dancer she studied in the ‘Bustan’ school of arts in Natanya, combining her dance, theater and circus studies. At the age of 18 she joined the ‘Sadna’ in Kibbutz Ga’aton, and after her graduation she joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in 2011(aritistic direction Rami Beer). Since 2013 Eli has been living in Berlin, working as a freelance dancer with various choreographers such as: Marina Mascarell, Roberto Zappala, Or Marin, Ofir Yudilevitch, Ira Domina, Daniel Kaufman, Laura Arend, Viliam Docolimansky and more.  Since 2015 Eli is also a certified Yoga teacher.

Uri DICKER (1988, IL) was born in 1988 Israel, He grew up in the North of Israel. He was a graduate of theatre in High school. He then went on to serve three years in the military after that he went to Madrid were he studied contemporary circus arts in carampa. He specialized in partner acrobatics, contact improvisation and theatre for two years. He then went on to do three years in re-search a contemporary dance school in Israel. He created his own works as well as working with many choreographers in various styles and settings. 2015-2018 Uri has worked with choreographers such as Ayala Frankel, Omer Uziel, Iris Nies, Or Marin, Yossi Berg, Odded Graf, Michal Mualem and more. Many of these works were performed in theatres and festivals around Israel. The last work a duet Uri danced with Eli Cohen which was choreographed by Or Marin. They performed in tmu-na theatre Tel-Aviv.

Or MARIN (1981, IL) was born in Israel in 1981, studied at “Habbostan” School of Art in Netanya and graduated from the “Thelma Yellin” High School for the Arts (1999). Marin graduated from the “Place, LCD” Academy of Music in London, the School of Physical Theatre in accordance with the Lekuk Method, “The Body theatre”, “Rakefet Levy’s School for the Performing Arts”, and the “SIC – Sound Image Culture Program” Digital documentary in the performing arts. In 2005, together with Oran Nahum, her partner in life and creation, she founded the “Or and Oran Dance Theater Company”, since creating works with a unique language which performed on various stages and festivals in Israel and abroad, In 2015, Established the RE-SEARCH Dance Training and Research Center in the Netanya Industrial area, with the aim of promoting the art of dance in Israel and establishing a first school of its kind in Israel for training creative dancers.

Magdalena OETTL, Stella KOLODZEY: Mindjárt visszajövök

előadó, koreográfus: Stella Felicitas KOLODZEY (D), Magdalena OETTL (D)

KOLODZEY Stella (1993,D) studied at Folkwang University of Arts in Essen (Germany). 2017-2018 she worked as a company member of „Tanzmoto“ and performed in Choreographies by Royston Maldoom). 2018-2019 she was a dancer within the light opera production „Ball im savoy“ in Switzerland. Since 2019 she is permanently employed at the Opera Nürnberg (Germany). Besides her work with free companies and theatre productions she is creating her own way of moving. With the interest of combining dancestyles such as Hip-Hop, Urbanstyle and Contemporary she has been part of creative processes following this direction. Stella is a dancer, who is open minded and adaptable to any kind of movement,dancestyle, physical challenge and situation in a creative process that may occur. Her strengths in dance are musicality, physicality, groove and precision.

Magdalena OETTL (1994, D) studied at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at Performact in Torres Vedras. She is working as a freelance dancer in Germany and Belgium. Her own choreographic work, which she had developed since 2014, has been presented in Germany and Switzerland. She performed in creations by Mark Siezcarek, Rainer Behr, Mate Meszaros and Ricardo Ambrozio. As a creator she collaborated with free companies mostly within interdisciplinary productions. Since 2018 she is a member of Samadhyana Company. 2019 she joined Ultima Vez for the creation of Traces.

Yunkyung HUR: Faltering Eyes, Crumpling Atmosphere

előadó, koreográfus : Yunkyung HUR (ROK)

Yunkyung HUR (1986, ROK) graduated Department of Media Communication, Yonsei University, School of Social Sciences, and M.F.A at the Department of Choreography, Korea National University of Arts, School of Dance. She is a choreographer, dancer, and performing artist who has been working on diverse performances. Her works show interest in the existence of body as perspective within various contexts, and as a starting point of any diverse possibilities of theatrical language. She performed in most of her own choreographed work such as Implicitly Anywhere(2018) Theatre of Miniature Spaces(2018-2019), Daily-life Translator(2018), Space-ship(2016-2017). Also she actively works and collaborates as a dancer in various works with artists from diverse fields. She was a 2019 exchange choreographer of Movement Research Exchange, NY and Space RED program of Seoul Dance Center.She expects this festival as an opportunity to share and research thoroughly of the unique movement language of herself.