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Choreography and Dramaturgy
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about
Maya Weinberg is a choreographer, teacher and a dramaturg, and a member of the B A G collective, based in Berlin since 2013. She studied at Seminar Hakibutzim College of Arts and Technology in Tel Aviv and worked as a dancer at Yasmeen Godder Company for 8 years. She was a teacher at Godder`s school, as well as other schools and academies such as The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, Smash Berlin and HZT- Berlin. In her Artistic practice she works on mapping the polyphonic body by inventing imaginary communication systems, in order to capture the tragic-comic “In-Between Spaces” that exist between the spoken and the unspoken. Maya has created various works for dance and performance-art festivals, often collaborating with dance, visual-art and performance artists. Among her works: ‘Trained’, ‘On a faithful friend’, ( with Keren Ida Nathan) ‘Homonimi’, ‘MY TRUE SELF revisited' (for Fattoria Vittadini Dance Company 2011, Revisited 2017), Some Fish Swim Up the River to Die (Curtain Up Fest. 2011), ‘If It’s Fun’ - by The Defaults of Self Indulgence' aka Lee Meir & Maya Weinberg (Tanztage Fest. 2014 Sophiensaele, Berlin and Tel Aviv Museum of Art ), and ‘The Extended Book Practice’ ( ‘ausland’ Berlin, 2016, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, within the exhibition ‘Bi-bli-o-logia’: The Book as Body. ) While House - with ‘The Instrument’- Maya M. Carroll and Roy Carroll (Curtain Up Festival, Tel–Aviv and 'ausland', Berlin 2014)
At 2018-2019 Weinberg created the work: 'Missspelled' In Collaboration with Moran Sanderovich, Hila Lahav and Nattan Dobkin. The work deals with the craft of art/performance making through the practice of SPELL( casting of spells, effect and affect) AND SPELLING (a linguistic communication system that produces meaning / shapes reality). The work was produced by HAZIRA - a Performance Art Arena in Jerusalem, premiered at Leo Model Hall, Jerusalem and presented at KELIM - Choreography Center in Bat Yam, ausland Berlin and Dock 11, Berlin. Since 2018 Weinberg works as a freelance dramaturg with several choreographers, e.g. Anna Nat (Queering Nosferatu, sophiensaele, 2022, Berlin) Roni Katz (A Matter Of One's Own, Uferstudios, November 2018, Berlin), Danny Neyman ( NEVELA, CCA, February 2024, Tel Aviv / Walk in the park, BUDA, June, 2019, kortrijk ), Mirjam Gurtner (Play, ROXY Theater, 2021, Birsfelden, Basel) and more.
Between 2020-2022, she curated together with Roni Katz, a series of evenings for emerging artists at Ada studio called NAH DRAN EXTENDED.