Hagit Yakira is an award-winning Israeli choreographer, scholar and educator.
Currently based in Stavanger, Norway, and working as the vice-dean for research and innovation at the University of Stavanger at the faculty of performing arts, as well as an associate professor at the dance department.
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She holds a PhD from City University and Trinity Laban in choreography looking at feminism and feminist dance practitioners.
Her thesis is titled: Relational Autobiographical Choreographies - on a new choreographic practice.


Hagit founded Hagit Yakira Dance Company in 2007 and has since gone on to tour the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and Israel.
Alongside the works she creates for her company she creates many other commissioned works for other dance companies and institutions around Europe, Scandinavia and the UK.
Besides working with professional dancers she leads performance projects for the community and non-professional dancers as well.

Her training commenced at the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, Israel where she gained a BA and a teaching certificate. After qualifying as a Dance Movement Therapist in 2004, she relocated to London where she completed an MA in European Theatre Dance, specialising in choreography (2005). In January 2019 she received my Doctorate degree.
Hagit's work has been commissioned by Sadler's Wells, The Place, Greenwich Dance, Trinity Laban – London, the Respond project, Yorkshire Dance, University of Leeds, Breakfast Creative – Leeds, Dance4 – Nottingham, and supported by Arts Council England and Arts Council Norway.

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In 2007 Hagit started her dance company dedicated to open, relevant and relatable work informed by her background in Dance Movement Therapy.
Hagit leads her company with infectious energy, enthusiasm and a genuine interest in her collaborators’ own artistic voices and stories. She aims 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.

Her approach in general, as well as to the movement research, is based on autobiography, and different physical exploration of emotions.
Audiences engage with the work because of its empathic nature that draws out the feelings and emotions in the dancers that are identifiable to all. Her warm approach enables her to talk to people through her work in a way that is compassionate and relevant to a wide age range and diverse backgrounds.

