Tools currently operates several residency program tracks throughout the year:

Winter Track: A five-month residency program (November 2024 to March 2025, with another round beginning in October 2025). In this program, selected, innovative, and leading artists receive workspaces and production and artistic guidance from the Tools team. The artists premiere their works within the framework of the annual 'Tools Festival' taking place in March 2025.
Among the artists participating in this track in 2024–2025 are: Orian Michaeli, Inbal Hacar, Oded Komemi, Daniel Galia Kind, Merav Dagan, Moran Yitzhaki Abergil, Michal Grober Friedlander.
The residency program is led by Ayala Frenkel (the Artistic Director of the center) alongside dramaturgs and leading arts and dance professionals such as Natali Zuckerman, Uri Shafir, Dr. Chen Alon, and Ruti Director.

 

Summer Track: Siftach – A five-month residency program (July 2025 to November 2025) designed for early-career artists. The artists receive workspaces and production and artistic guidance from the Tools team. They present their works within the framework of the annual 'Asif Festival'. This program aims to provide a platform and support for the next generation of artists, nurturing new voices artistically, economically, and in production, thereby strengthening the ongoing development and sustainability of the field.

 

Hip-Hop Track: A unique residency track for a selected group of dancers from hip-hop, house, freestyle, vogue, breaking, and other styles. The program aims to create new, multidisciplinary, and contemporary connections between hip-hop artists and dancers and the choreographers of contemporary dance at Tools, generating mutual influences and expanding the aesthetic and conceptual field.

 

“Healing” Track: Initiated by the Artistic Director and co-leader of the 2024 Tools Festival, Uri Shafir, we established a unique artist-in-residence track where artists are not required to present a work or produce output during the residency period. Artists can devote themselves to research, discovery, presence, and creativity, receiving workspaces and artistic guidance according to their request. Alongside existing residency frameworks in Israel aimed at producing a specific outcome, we wanted to offer an alternative space focused on inquiry, experimentation, and development rather than necessarily producing a new work.

 

“Home” Track: For selected projects: each year we choose several projects that align with the center’s vision and support the leading artists as the center’s “artists-in-residence” for that year, hosting them in our residency program for phased work throughout the year. For example, in 2024, the Tools Home Artist was Neta Yerushalmi.

 

“Montage” Track: A new Tools track in which an artist in the final stage before a premiere receives the Tools facilities for two consecutive weeks of work in the space and for premiere performances. The program allows the artist to bring together all elements of the work within the performance space—sound designers, lighting, and dancers—for a research period aimed at refining how all components are realized together in the complete work. The program is unique in the local dance field and was inspired by similar residency programs abroad. It is intended for experienced artists and enables the technical-artistic creation of fuller, richer, and more complete works in the field of dance.