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Center Team

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Uri Shafir

Artistic Director

Uri Shafir is an Israeli dancer, choreographer, and performance artist born in 1983. Since 2009, he has created independent works presented at prominent local platforms, including Curtain Up, Zirat Machol, International Exposure, Diver Festival, and Tel Aviv Dance, as well as various festivals worldwide. As a dancer, Uri performed with the Ensemble Batsheva Dance Company and collaborated with artists such as Yasmeen Godder, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Guy Gutman, among others. Uri is a graduate of MASPA (Kibbutz Ga'aton Dance Workshop), the Kelim Choreography Center, and the Master Exerce MA program in choreography at ICI-CCN in Montpellier, France (under artistic director Christian Rizzo). Alongside his artistic work, Uri is a lecturer at the Kibbutzim College, where he teaches movement research methods and research of choreographic practices. In addition, he is a certified Gaga teacher. Currently, he serves as a co-artistic director of "Pritza" - a dance and performance event in Jaffa. Uri’s work sits at the intersection of choreography and performance, often exploring the notion of "liveness" through both choreographed and improvised movement, while examining the dynamic relationships between the performer, the audience, and the performance event itself.

Contact Email:
uris.kelim@gmail.com

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 CEO

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Operations and Production Manager

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Contact Email: prod.kelim@gmail.com

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Katrin Tulkovski

Media

Katrin is an artist and filmmaker. After graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance high school, she continued her studies in the Screen Arts Department at Bezalel, earning a BFA. In 2022, Katrin completed her MFA in Arts at Bezalel, Tel Aviv, and works as an independent multidisciplinary artist.

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Tami Levovitz

Head of Choreography Program

Tami Levovitz – Head of Choreography Program Tami Levovitz is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and costume designer. Her works place the living body at the intersections of dance, performance, and visual art. Tami has presented her works on prominent stages in Israel and abroad, including HaRamot Masakh Festival, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Performance Conference, Im Flieger (Vienna), Shalem Dance Festival, L1dancefest (Budapest), New Dance in the Interdisciplinary Arena, Bat Yam Museum, Room Dance, Video-Dance Festival, Ohev Art Osim Art, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She graduated from the School of Visual Theater (2007) and the two-year Choreography Program at Kelim Center (2011). She holds a BA and teaching certificate from the Seminar College for Movement and Dance. In recent years, Tami has developed works outside the traditional theater space, extending their duration and connecting them with specific communities and environments. She maintains long-term collaborations with artist Guy Gutman, among others, and has performed with Iris Erez, Anat Danieli, Daniel Landau, Ariel Ephraim Ashbel, Anat Shmagr, Amos Hatz, and Gunilla Heilborn. From 2007–2015, she was a member of Ensemble 209 under the artistic direction of Tamar Reuven. In 2021, she co-artistically directed the March Rabbit Dance Festival with Anat Danieli at Kelim Center. In 2022, she co-artistically directed the Zaz Festival with Moshe Shechter Abshalom, and together they established a youth performance ensemble, which was invited to present as part of the Imagine Museum performance exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in early 2023. Since 2023, Tami serves as Head of the Choreography Program at Kelim Center

Contact Email: tamishein@gmail.com

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Lior Levin

Technical Director

Lior Levin is a musician, lighting designer, and lighting technician. As a musician, he has founded and led several musical ensembles and composed music for multiple theater productions. As a lighting designer, he has designed lighting for numerous dance and theater performances. He served as chief lighting technician at Haifa Theaters, Habima, and Batsheva Ensemble. He currently serves as chief lighting technician for Inbal Pinto, Fresco Dance Company, and others. Lior was previously Technical Director at Tmuna Theater and is now the Technical Director at Kelim Center.

Contact Email: liorlevinus@gmail.com

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