MICHAL MUALEM

Date of birth: 05/11/1974
Nationality: Israeli

E-mail: michalula74@yahoo.com
Telephone: 00972-544839333


DANCE / MOVEMENT EDUCATION:

1979-1988
Professional gymnastics

1991
Studying in the “Kibbutz Dance Company’s School of Dance”

1992-1994
Dance education in Israel:
Contemporary dance, Ballet, Feldenkrais, Composition, Improvisation

2001-2005
Studying with different teachers like:
David Zambrano, Ted Stoffer, Kirstie Simpson, Meg Stuart, Benoit Lachambre, Renate Graziadei, Chrisa Parkinson, Mia Lorence, Ori Flumin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

1995-1999
Dancing with “Liat Dror & Nir Ben Gal Dance Company” (Israel) in the productions “Anta Omri”, “The Land of Rape and Honey”, “Interrogation”, “The Dance of Nothing” and “To Understand Dance”

1997
Dance project with the choreographer Inbal Pinto (Israel)

Dance project with the choreographer Niv Sheinfeld (Israel)

1999-2001
Dancing with “Noa Dar Dance Group” (Israel) in the productions “Achilles Tendon” and “Strange”

2001-2005
Dancing with “Sasha Waltz & Guests” dance company in the productions “Nobody”, “Korper”, “Insideout”, “Impromptus” and the Opera “Dido & Aeneas”.
With the company I had the chance to take part in several improvisation performances

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

1995-1998
Teaching in the school of “Liat Dror & Nir Ben Gal Dance Company”

1998-2001
Teaching Contemporary Dance in Tel Aviv (Israel)

1999-2001
Giving company classes for “Noa Dar Dance Group”

2004-2005
Giving Workshops of contemporary dance, contact and improvisation in Italy, Germany, Israel

2002-2005
Giving company classes for “Sasha Waltz & Guests”

CHOREOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCES:

1997
“Brown Sugar” - a 5 dancers dance piece for “Shadows in Dance”, a competition for young choreographers at the “Suzanne Dellal Center”, Tel Aviv (Israel)

2005
“In between” – A dance duet created together with Giannalberto de Filippis performed in Bologna, Berlin, Tel Aviv and invited at The Place Theatre, London, Tanec Praha dance festival, Prague, and Bratislava in Movement, Bratislava