Hofesh Shechter
Graduating
from the Jerusalem Academy of Dance in 1993 Hofesh started his
career with the highly acclaimed Batsheva Dance
Company in Tel Aviv, working with choreographers
Ohad Naharin, Wim Vandekeybus, Terro Saarinen, Paul-Selwyn Norton,
Inbal Pinto and later, in the UK, with Jasmin Vardimon.
In 2004 he was appointed
associate artist at The Place
Theatre in London after presenting his duet
Fragments in the Resolution! programme.
Fragments toured nationally in the UK and
internationally to
Finland, Italy,
Portugal, Switzerland, Korea, New York and
Poland where the piece won first
place in the 3rd Serge Diaghilev choreography
competition. Cult, his entryfor
the 2004 Place Prize, was enthusiastically
received, being chosen by the jury as a finalist and winning the
audience vote special prize.
Hofesh was subsequently invited to create new pieces for the
Bare Bones
Company in Birmingham, for
Edge, the post graduate company
of London Contemporary Dance School, for the LCDS
graduation performance in
Berlin in July 05, for
Northern School of Contemporary
Dance, Ballet
CeDeCe in Portugal and the Exeter-based
Fan Club Dance. He also
created the choreography for Motortown by Simon
Stephens at the
RoyalCourt
Theatre, March 06 and is invited to create a new
work for Scottish Dance Theatre
in 2007.
In January 06 Hofesh took part in the
Jerwood Changing Stages Choreolab
at Birmingham’s DanceXchange and
in that year was offered the Robin Howard
Foundation Commission in order to develop his
research into a new work to be premiered at the Robin Howard
Theatre. He used the commission to create
Uprising, a piece for seven male dancers that had
its premiere in June as part of a triple-bill of his works,
degeneration. This programme concluded his residency at The Place
and undertook a national tour beginning at The Point on 22
September 06.
Hofesh’s current project is In Your Rooms, a new work that grows
in scale and ambition moving from its London commissioning
theatres The Place, Southbank Centre and Sadler’s Wells, to
The Point – also a commissioning partner in Autumn 07