Shahar Binyamini Choreographer

Biography

Shahar Binyamini is a choreographer, dancer, and artistic director. He was a member of the Batsheva Dance Company from 2006 to 2013, where he distinguished himself as a performer in works by Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal. Beginning in 2016, he established himself on the international choreographic scene with Flat, created for Frontier DanceLand in Singapore, marking the start of a new chapter in his career. Numerous companies and institutions subsequently commissioned new works from him: Mensch (2016) for the Saarländisches Staatstheater, Lungs (2016) for UCLA, Empty3 (2017) for Ate9 and the Gauthier Dance Company, Paradiso (2018) for Frontier DanceLand, Vulner (2018) for Norrdans, Ballroom (2019) for the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, and I Am (2019) for the Ballet du Rhin.

In 2023, he created several new works: I Hanged My Mind for the São Paulo Dance Company, Hard to Tell for Marion Barbeau and Antonin Monié, Bolero X for Ballet BC in Vancouver, as well as More Than for his own company in Tel Aviv. In 2025, his creation New Earth premiered at the Bregenzer Frühling Festival in Austria. His work extends beyond the strictly choreographic stage.

He notably collaborated with American artist SZA, choreographing the music video for Snooze. In 2013, together with Professor Atan Gross of the Weizmann Institute of Science, he founded the research group TNUDA, dedicated to exploring the links between dance, science, and choreographic composition. The project investigates the interactions between scientific principles and movement.

From 2014 to 2016, TNUDA developed into a research program for students at the Weizmann Institute, jointly led by Shahar Binyamini, Shani Garfinkel, and Atan Gross. In 2021, he received the Award for Promising Choreographer from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.

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