Annabelle Dvir
Annabelle Dvir
Annabelle Dvir is an Israeli-Georgian choreographer, voice artist, live sound composer, and dance performer, and the director of her ensemble WOMAN OF SOUNDS. Through the tension between sensation and perception, the heard and the seen, she creates physical-vocal practices and examines new aesthetics that merge feminine reality with fantasy, sci-fi, and storytelling. She composes, with a musical-choreographic eye, the embodiment of sound frequencies and the visual shapes of alternating soundscapes in order to transform human preconceptions, emotions, and inner desires. Delving into the forces of the tribal and ethnic, her stage works and practice center on the “performance body” as visual, audial-sonoric, and mass recurrences.
Annabelle earned her MA and BA with Dean’s honors from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and graduated from KELIM Center’s postgraduate Choreography Program. In 2018, she received the ImPulsTanz DanceWEB scholarship, Vienna – Austria, and the Art Excellence Award of Holon Municipality. In 2017, she received the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports creative grant for outstanding emerging choreographers. In 2022, she won the Israel Minister of Culture Award and was accepted for a residency at the AGORA CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DE LA DANSE, Montpellier, France. In 2023, she was the artist-in-residence at the Suzanne Dellal Residency Program. Recently (June 2024), she won 3rd prize at Danse Élargie Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, presented by the terrain company – Boris Charmatz, the Hermès Corporate Foundation, the CNDC – Angers (directed by Noé Soulier), and La Comédie de Valence, CDN Drôme-Ardèche (directed by Marc Lainé). Just now – December 2024 – Annabelle’s work was hosted by the Batsheva Dance Company, chosen by the artistic manager Lior Avizoor and Hillel Kogan.
Annabelle presents her stage work and practice both nationally and internationally: Opera Prima Festival (Italy), Singapore Dance Festival, CICC (Denmark), Akita (Japan), FAKI Festival (Croatia), AGORA (Montpellier, France), BETAPUBLICA – Madrid Dance Festival (Spain), WOMENMADE (Italy), Curtain Up Festival (IL), TanzFaktur (Cologne, Germany), La Corrupta Festival (Cologne, Germany), Tel Aviv Dance Festival, ALTOFEST (Italy), CIRCE (Tbilisi, Georgia), Diver Festival (IL), Venice International Art Fair, BBB INTERNATIONAL – U.S. (online), International Exposure – Suzanne Dellal (Tel Aviv), APH (Vilnius, Lithuania), MASH Dance House Festival, The Jerusalem International Dance Week, Intimadance Festival (IL), The Jerusalem Biennale, March Hare Dance Festival (IL), Between Heaven and Earth Festival (IL), and more.
Annabelle is a member of the Israeli Choreographers Association and CAMPI – Jerusalem Dance and Performance Community. Her research processes are supported by the Goethe-Institut – The International Coproduction Fund (IKF), the Israeli Culture and Sports Administration, the Lottery Council for Culture and Arts – Mifal HaPais, the School of Movement and Dance – The Ness Ziona Center for Culture & Recreation, and more.
She has created works for MOVING COMMUNITIES – People Living with Parkinson’s Disease (Yasmeen Godder Company), the Professional Dance Workshop Ga’aton – Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, the VERTIGO Dance Company professional workshop, the RE-SEARCH professional dance program, The J.A.D.E ensemble, and more.
