International Projects & Original Productions
AURA // by choreographer Reut Shalem
// International Original Production // 2025
In AURA, Reut Shalem explores the process of self-discovery and identity formation among young people through an examination of clothing and uniforms. The work reveals how uniforms reflect processes of belonging versus individuation and features five professional dancers revisiting their adolescence while merging it with the experiences of today’s younger generation.
Based in Germany, Reut Shalem has been creating work across Europe over the past decade.
AURA is a collaboration between Reut Shalem Dance Company and Kelim Choreography Center, supported by Mifal HaPais and the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
The Reut Shalem Dance Company is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Department of Culture of the City of Cologne.
AURA continues the international project ESTHER, developed within a network of dance centers in Germany promoting dance creation for young audiences.
Performers / Co-creators: Gilad Yerushalmi, Ilana Sarah Claire Belsen, Lil Goren, Tzipi Nir, Avshalom Latocha / Shahar Hanin
Original music: Micha Kaplan
Poster design: Yitzhak Yitzhaki
Reut Shalem, born in Israel, is an artist working in contemporary dance, photography, and creative writing.
She currently lives in Cologne, Germany. Her works have been presented at Art Cologne, Impulse Theatre Festival, Tanzhaus Zurich, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, HELLERAU Dresden, fabrik Potsdam, and Kampnagel Hamburg.
She holds a B.A. from ArtEZ Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and an M.A. from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).
Her works have been shown at numerous international festivals and have received multiple awards.
She won the Cologne Dance and Theatre Prize (2016) for her work LEVIAH, and was recognized as “One to Watch” by Germany’s leading dance magazine, tanz.
In April 2019, she created ATARA during a residency at K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, which was later selected for Tanzplattform Deutschland 2020 (Germany’s national dance platform).
Between 2020 and 2022, Shalem served as an artist-in-residence at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf, where she continues to collaborate regularly.
In May 2024, she premiered ESTHER as part of the collaboration Explore Dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum (a German network supporting dance for young audiences) at fabrik Potsdam.
She is currently touring Europe with her production ULTRA, performed at venues including STUK Leuven and BRONKS Brussels. ULTRA was created in collaboration with the Belgian production house FABULEUS.
Shalem is regularly invited to create works with various ensembles and institutions, including City Theatre Giessen and Maslul – The Third Movement Program in Tel Aviv.
She also lectures at academic institutions such as Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and the University of Cologne.
Her work is consistently supported by various foundations, including the NRW District Foundation for Outstanding Artists and the City of Cologne Arts Foundation.
Women’s Diptych // by Neta Yerushalmy // International Original Production // 2024–2025
Women’s Diptych is a two-part dance piece created for nine women (ages 47–78) whose lives are devoted to movement and bodily wisdom. It is a work filled with the sediments and folds of skin and joints, of time and place. A choreographic space that observes — with wonder — a rare and fragile way of life devoted entirely to the body.
It is a journey of deep knowledge: endless repetition, countless refinements, efforts, pains, excitements, insights, humiliations, euphorias, and curiosities; of obedience and rebellion, of analysis and imagination, of success and failure, of what is here, happening, dissolving, and disappearing.
Although she grew up in Israel, choreographer and dancer Neta Yerushalmy’s artistic and physical language is deeply rooted in the dance and art worlds of New York, where she has lived for over twenty years. Within today’s Israeli reality, she gathers a group of mature professional dancers from diverse schools and movement backgrounds—some of them her own iconic teachers or fellow dancers from her early years in Israel. Together they embark on a process of multi-directional physical dialogue.
Choreography: Neta Yerushalmy // Performers // Co-creators: Neta Pulvermacher, Tami Lotan, Michal Hirsch, Sharon Sagie, Einat Duek, Hani Ben Tov Oren, Neta Yerushalmy, Zohara Nachshol, Tirtza Schaffanoff-Meny // Original music: Paula Matthusen // Dramaturgy and Artistic Mentorship: Yael Venezia, Yali Nativ // Lighting design: Rotem Elroy // Costumes: Elia Yerushalmy // Photography: Eskaff Avraham // Production: Sigal Dahan // Poster design: Yitzhak Yitzhaki
// The work was created with the support of the Independent Creators Fund and as part of a residency and production partnership with the Kelim Choreography Center.
Neta Yerushalmy is a choreographer and dancer, originally from Moshav Shorashim in the Galilee, who has been based in New York City since 2000.
Her work invites audiences into an experience of things as they are perceived, but not necessarily as they are known—seeking to challenge our understanding of how we give and receive meaning. Her aesthetic and ethical commitment is to pose questions rather than provide answers.
Yerushalmy is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton University Arts Fellowship, U.S. Artist Fellowship, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Research Fellowship, Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship (NYU), New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, Jerome Robbins Fellowship (Bogliasco, Italy), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
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Meetings with theoretician Professor André Lepecki
Kelim Choreography Center, Bat Yam // February 2019
Kelim Choreography Center in Bat Yam is pleased to host researcher and curator, Professor Andre Lepecki, Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University (NYU). Supported by ARTIS (www.artis.art), the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv, and Outset Bialik Residency Israel.
Professor Andre Lepecki is the editor of several dance and performance theory anthologies, the author of the book “Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement” (translated to Hebrew in 2013) and of “Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance” (2016). He is a curator of dance and performance events, among them the revived exhibition and performance “18 Happenings in 6 Parts” by Alan Kaprow, for which he received a special prize from the International Association of Critics United States.
Kelim Choreography Center is happy to host Lepecki, who will lead, for the first time in Israel, two seminars for choreographers, researchers, and curators, as well as a lecture for the general public. This is a rare opportunity to have an in-depth meeting with one of the leading world voices in performance, and specifically dance.
Seminar led by André Lepecki
Wednesday – Sunday, 20-24 FEB, 2019