About

Hagit Yakira

Hagit is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher based in London. She graduated from the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, Israel in 1999 and completed her MA in European Theatre Dance at Trinity Laban, London in 2006. She has also been a qualified Dance Movement Therapist since 2003, and she is working now on her PhD in Choreography at Trinity Laban. After years of performing and teaching, she has been recently developing her own choreographic work. So far she has created five works, two of them were awarded: first prize for ‘Oh Baby’ in the ‘Kajaani Choreography Competition’, Finland 2009, and second prize for ‘Somewhere between a self and an other’ in the ‘Burgos New York Choreography Competition’ (New Dance Trend Category), Spain 2007.

She has toured in numerous festivals and dance platforms in the UK, the rest of Europe, and in Israel. Hagit is now a teacher and a guest choreographer at Trinity Laban in the One Year Programme, and at The Place in the Community Education Programme. This summer she was invited to give workshops at ImPulsTanz-Vienna International Festival.

Hagit’s aim is to develop a personal approach, which is based on close collaboration with various artists working within different art forms. In her work she explores different aspects of human relationships, by playing with fiction and reality, emotion and feeling, and by shifting between drama and humour.

Performers

Takeshi Matsumoto

Takeshi is an actor and performer with a broad experience in performing both for theatre and dance productions. He has a wide range of experience in various styles of performance such as physical theatre, Butoh, Japanese folk dance and Japanese drum, contemporary dance (dancing for Christian Duarte, Azure Barton and Henri Oguike as part of Transition Dance Company at Trinity Laban, Darren Johnston for a year production).

He trained as an actor in Japan and as a dancer both in Japan and Trinity Laban, London. Takeshi is now studying MA in Dance Movement Therapy, working mainly with autistic children. Takeshi has been working with Hagit Yakira for the last two and a half years, and he was a part of the creative process for the last three of the company’s productions.

Orley Quick

A keen multi-tasker, Orley was a primary teacher before pursuing dance full time. She has worked with a number of established choreographers throughout her training including Sarah Dowling, Gary Lambert, Ragnhild Olsen, Katherine Markee, Lyndsey Mc Conville and Katie Pearson. Other training-based projects include workshops with the Henri Oguike company and an extensive creative process with Wayne McGregor’s educational department to make a piece based on the process experienced by his dancers for ‘Entity’. In addition, she has performed for Robbie Synge and Saffron Dodds-Smith both in the UK and Italy, as well as performing and choreographing with Quick Fix Dance for the Edinburgh Fringe.

She is also continually involved in creating her own choreographic work and was the artistic director for Free Range Dance Theatre: a South East London youth dance company that performed regularly at various platforms.

Cornelis Joubert

South African born, Cornelis Joubert began his creative journey in the world of fashion, working alongside designers in both South Africa and London. Following his success in fashion, Cornelis felt the urge to embark on an entirely new approach by expressing his passion for the human form, through exploring both movement and the aesthetic complexities of design. To achieve this, he found his calling in contemporary dance. He gained experience and earned the opportunity to work under the direction of established choreographers such as Janina Rajakangas, Gary Lambert, Katherine Markee, Saffron Dodd-Smith, Robbie Synge and Fortunato Angelini. During this transition, feeling the need to challenge his skills further by combining design and movement, he embarked on a project to conceptualise and create costumes for the performance arts charity "Heart’n’Soul".

Today, Cornelis Joubert continues to explore the human form as a three dimensional canvas through dance.

Collaborators

Producer — Maria Tsaousi
Rehearsal Director — Maika Klaukien
Dramaturge — Yarit Dor
Scenographer, Lighting Designer — Rachel E. Stanners
Photographer — Julia Burstein
Music — Tom James Scott
Interactive Sculpture — Thomas Crane

Previous Collaborators

Costume Designer — Giulia Scrimieri
Composer and Voice artist — Portia Winters
Musician — Alon Ramage
Costume Maker — Eve Collins
Bo Weavil Recordings
Performer — Annaritta Mazzilli
Performer — Yonat Bitner
Rehearsal Director — Melodie Gonzales
Costume Designer — Ruggiero Dessnatis

Special Thanks To

Ronen Korokaro
Nily Ron
Hilit Ben Avraham
Shira Goodal
Tarika Hidayatullah
Azusa Ono
Peta Bridgette Barrett
Yonat Bitner