Sigal Armoza
Sigal Armoza
Sigal Armoza is an Israeli choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and founder of the Sigal Armoza Dance Group. Her work blends movement, visual arts, and performance to explore gender, identity, and societal structures. With a strong feminist voice, she uses dance as a tool for dialogue, empowerment, and social transformation. She is a member of the Choreographers Association and continues to explore new ways of engaging with audiences through dance.
Grants and Presentations
Sigal’s works have received support from the Independent Artists Fund, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Mifal HaPais (The Lottery), Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (JCU), and other funding bodies. Her works have been presented at venues and festivals including the INTIMADANCE Festival 2025, Jerusalem Dance Showcase, Arts By The People (New Jersey, USA), the virtual exhibition of the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Israel in Berlin, Zawirowania Dance Theatre (Poland), Jerusalem International Dance Week, Tel Aviv Dance, the Jerusalem Arts Festival, the Bible Lands Museum, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Education
M. Dance in Choreography and Composition, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel | Scholarship for Excellence
B. Dance in Dance (Performance Track), Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel
M.A. in Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Honors Graduate, Journalism and Communication Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Art Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Alma Fellows Program, ALMA – Home for Hebrew Culture, Israel
Publications
"Dance and Gender" (2021) – Published in Dance Today, Sigal discusses the role of dance in promoting gender equality and feminist education.
Choreographic Works
CARYATIDS (2025) - An anthem to the captive body. Cyclical movement, aerobic stepper, and mythological imagery converge in moments of resistance, rhythm, and the redefinition of the body.
TAKE 7 (2024) - A solo piece created in response to the events of October 7, 2023. The work explores the strength of body and mind when facing trauma. It imagines the rescue of a captive body from underground tunnels and wraps it in imagination, comfort, prayer, and healing. Through this transformation, fear and violence are turned into spaces of healing: a quiet piano room, a library of Jewish culture, glowing windows, movement, and the hopeful power of imagination.
The work participated in an international project in collaboration with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Arts By The People, New Jersey, and was published in the book Like Waves Through Flesh (edited by Emma Gashinsky and Michelle Ortega), published by Arts By The People in collaboration with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, first edition, New Jersey, 2024. Supported by Mifaal HaPais - the Lottery Arts Council, the choreographers.
PRETTY* (2024)- A grotesque gaze at the myth of beauty and its dictates. Supported by Mifaal HaPais for Culture and Art, The Choreographers.
SELF IS (2023) – The selves of three characters full of ambition, curiosity and perspective, merging during a creative process. Supported by The Foundation for Independent Artists, The Ministry of Culture and Sports.
FOLDING PROTEINS (2023) - Choreography for Proteins Research, contrabass and looper. Collaboration with The Weizmann Institute of Science and The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
I AM THE SUBJECT OF THE CHOREOGRAPHY (2022) - Biographies of four colorful characters echoing many versions of the woman I could have been. Supported by The Foundation for Independent Artists, The Ministry of Culture and Sports, Mifaal HaPais for Culture and Art, Bar-Kayma Association for Culture, Art, Music and Peace.
BIOGRAPHIC CAPSULE (2021) - Biographic research influenced by the period of the Corona virus. Collaboration with The Israeli opera violinist Genrih Gopin. The work was presented in The New Gallery –Teddy Artist's Studios in Jerusalem, supported by the Jerusalem Municipality Dance Department, headed by 'YAEL' and the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
INTIMATE CULTURE (2021) and Tender (2020)- poetry and dance pieces. collaboration with the Israeli artist and poet Roni Somek and the Israeli opera violinist Genrih Gopin.
REFLECTIVE DREAMS (2019)- Two women, repressed chaos, A shared dream. Collaboration with the dancer Aoi Kagaya from Japan, sound artist Tali Ben Yitzhak and Harpist Katrin Lasko. The work was presented at The Jerusalem Dance Showcase- the International Dance Week in Jerusalem, at Tel Aviv Dance in Suzanne Dellal Center, and more.
REFLECTIONS (2018)- reflection of identities through a dream. The work was presented at The Jerusalem Arts Festival in The Bible Lands Museum, collaborating with the Dance, Culture, and Arts Department- Jerusalem Municipality.
STEREOTYPICAL (2017)- Five women examine femininity outside conventional spaces. Collaboration with Amit Tzafrir – singer and Spoken Word poet. The work was presented in the International Dance Week in Jerusalem, and The Bible Lands Museum. Part of the piece won the first-place prize at the “Dance Pieces from Home” Festival.
HER MOZA (2015)- The beauty ideal as an icon. Collaboration with cinematographer Román Poretski from Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School, who created a video-dance version for this piece.
