DOR MAMALIA
Foto Paweł Wyszomirski
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He began his professional career at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Rami Be'er to continue it at Vertigo Dance Company directed by Noa Wertheim.
His most outstanding roles have been interpreted in choreographies by William Forsythe, Marco Goecke, Emanuel Gat, Susanne Linke, Jacopo Godani among others.
Between 2012 and 2016 he has collaborated with Idan Sharabi & Dancers.
As a teacher, he regularly teaches master classes and workshops at both companies (Vertigo and Kibbutz) as well as dance schools around the world (he has recently been teaching at Netherlands Dance Theater2 and TheRoyal Danish Ballet).
As a choreographer he was invited to present his piece "I Choose You" at the prestigious Diana Vishneva Contest (Moscow 2016) and the Holland Dance Festival (January 2018).
He is currently working on a duet in collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Dariusz Nowak, entitled, "Into me, see". This piece was selected to open the Jewish Art's Festival Zurich (May 2018) and presented below in Amsterdam's Open Pavilion, in Vondelpark and Korzo Production House in Den Hague, OpenLook festival in St.Petersburg, SPLIT platform in Paris and in Regensburg Theater AidsGala (November 2018).
Simultaneously he has created a piece with Dariusz for the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste's (3rd year Bachelor program) premiered in May 2018 and come back in September of the same year and for the 3rd year students of Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, (January 2019)
Dor is the winner of the Israeli Ministry of Culture prize 'Best Cast Performance' 2013 and 2014.
Winner of the Audience Award of the Copenhagen Choreography Dance Competition in 2014
Winner of the ZOA scholarship for young artists in 2006.
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ANCHORS TECHNIQUE
The classes are diverse and each time explore a variety of concepts such as:
- gravitation,
- time: past- present - future,
- body textures,
- chains of movement,
- space and our relation to it,
- finding 'anchors' inside the body and their relation to the ground; allowing the body to create free
and organic movement,
- folding and unfolding our skeleton,
- reversing a movement,
- considering our joints as key chains for movement - locking and unlocking them,
- researching the spine - the ability to side bend/rotate and to fold it and divide it into zones
to form a better understanding of ones own.
- using imagination and fantasy; creating our own world while exploring,
- researching the natural human body gestures; going back to basics of movements.
The class develops a full body engagement and exploration of mind.