Reut Shemesh & Ronni Shendar
| Biography
Reut Shemesh is a choreographer and media artist from Israel, based in Cologne.
She is a recipient of ‘Spitzenförderung’ by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (top dance funding programme).
Her pieces and films were shown at international events and venues such as the Art Cologne, Tanzplattform, the Impulse Theater Festival and the tanz nrw Festival, HELLERAU in Dresden, Kampnagel in Hamburg, Korzo Theatre in Den Haag and the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Israel. ‘Bad Mothers’, her first piece for an acting ensemble, commissioned by Theater Oberhausen premiered in March 2022.
She is currently collaborating with the Belgian production house fABULEUS in Leuven (BE) for ULTRA, a piece on masculinity and ‘Ultra’ sports fans.
Her piece LEVIAH won the 2016 Cologne Dance Theater Award.
Highlighted by tanz magazine in 2019 as the dance scene’s ‘One to Watch’, the choreographer was a resident artist at tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf for two years and holds regular lectures at several universities in the region.
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Ronni Shendar is an Israeli visual artist based in Berlin working in video, light, and stage work. For the past ten years she has created scenography and film for choreographer Reut Shemesh. As a live-video artist, Shendar has toured internationally with producers Glitterbug (DE) and Gold Panda (UK) and she has presented video works at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and Festival de Cannes. She was the co-founder of the now defunct c.sides Festival for electronic music and media art in Israel.
| Biography
Reut Shemesh is a choreographer and media artist from Israel, based in Cologne.
She is a recipient of ‘Spitzenförderung’ by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (top dance funding programme).
Her pieces and films were shown at international events and venues such as the Art Cologne, Tanzplattform, the Impulse Theater Festival and the tanz nrw Festival, HELLERAU in Dresden, Kampnagel in Hamburg, Korzo Theatre in Den Haag and the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Israel. ‘Bad Mothers’, her first piece for an acting ensemble, commissioned by Theater Oberhausen premiered in March 2022.
She is currently collaborating with the Belgian production house fABULEUS in Leuven (BE) for ULTRA, a piece on masculinity and ‘Ultra’ sports fans.
Her piece LEVIAH won the 2016 Cologne Dance Theater Award.
Highlighted by tanz magazine in 2019 as the dance scene’s ‘One to Watch’, the choreographer was a resident artist at tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf for two years and holds regular lectures at several universities in the region.
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Ronni Shendar is an Israeli visual artist based in Berlin working in video, light, and stage work. For the past ten years she has created scenography and film for choreographer Reut Shemesh. As a live-video artist, Shendar has toured internationally with producers Glitterbug (DE) and Gold Panda (UK) and she has presented video works at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and Festival de Cannes. She was the co-founder of the now defunct c.sides Festival for electronic music and media art in Israel.
