Edo Ceder

Edo Ceder

Edo started to dance in his late 20’s, and ever since then he has been performing, teaching, creating and producing dance. He trained with Vertigo Dance Company, Yasmeen Godder, and Frey Faust to name a few, but most of his early training was with Hakvutza dance school.
For a couple of years, he danced with the duo Maya Stern and Tomer Sharabi whom he performed within Israel, China, Armenia, and Germany – where he won 1st prize at the “No Ballet” choreography competition in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
In 2008 Edo met Ella Ben-Aharon and moved to NYC to co-create and perform “Pericardium” – a full evening collaboration with video and architecture that premiered at Joyce SoHo, NYC. He performed his work and was an artist in residence in the U.S., France, and Israel.
In 2013, while he was studying for a B.A. in Psychology, Edo created “Aproximity” – a duet based on Margaret Mahler’s theory of Separation and Individuation. “Aproximity” won 3rd prize and Audience Award at the Zawirowania Choreography Competition, Warsaw, Poland 2014.
Edo is a member of the Israeli Choreographers Association and the Israeli Contact Improvisation Association. He has been teaching Contact and Improvisation in Israel and abroad since 2006. He holds a black belt in Jujitsu, which he taught to children and adults, and worked with people on their personal growth processes through the somatic Grinberg Method.
As a producer, he artistically directed the “Dance in the Desert” festival, a mutual project of the Choreographers Associations and Liat Dror & Nir Ben-Gal Company, and co-founded the ‘Contemporary Israeli Dance Week’ at La MaMa theater in NYC.
Currently, Edo lives and creates in Tel Aviv. He teaches weekly Contact and Improvisation classes and facilitates CI Jams. He has a B.A. in Psychology and is a candidate for a graduate degree in dance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.