My name is Uri Shafir, I’m a dancer, choreographer, and performance maker.
I grew up in the center of Israel, performed as a dancer and performer for Israeli companies and artists such as Batsheva Dance Company, Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Dana Ruttennberg, Guy Gutman, and more.
Creating works sicne 2009 and performing them in Israel and abroad.
Recent graduate of MASTER EXERCE (MA in Choreography, ICI-CCN Montpellier France)
My main and premiere desire as a choreographer is to embrace and celebrate the liveness of the body, the liveness of the dance, the liveness of the event.
The dance performance is a site where previous expectations and conceptions are breaking down into a moment of becoming, where the only time available is now.
In our post-human era, where our personal time is an asset for the capital, for invisible forces that invade our mental space, I believe in the dance performance as a space for fugitivity, for reclaiming our physical intelligence, to practice intimacy with others, to reinforce our bodies with freedom and permission to be passionate, tender, full of will, and at the same time – to disappear, to doubt, to be in-between, to remember that we are mortal.
