Dance story
NND/Galili Dance
NND/Galili Dance
NND/Galili Dance
Dancer, Choreographer and Artistic Director: Itzik Galili
In 1997 the Israeli dancer, choreographer and director Itzik Galili founded a permanent, publicly funded company NND/Galili Dance, based in Groningen, Holland. Here he created numerous works, including Beautiful You (1999), For Heaven’s Sake (2001), Mono Lisa (2003), Hikarrizatto (2004), Exile Within (2006), and Heads or Tales (2007). In 2009 he joined Krisztina de Châtel to form a new company, Dansgroep Amsterdam, its repertory created by themselves, their dancers, and invited choreographers.
A prolific choreographer, Galili’s works are in the repertory of many companies including Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo, Batsheva, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Finnish Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and Dutch National Ballet. He has also choreographed for television including A Sense of Gravity (2002). (Oxford Reference)
Performances & Tours organised by Mondigromax:
Heads or Tales
Choreography Itzik Galili
Music Percossa
Light Design Yaron Abulafia
Costumes Natasja Lansen
Stage Janco Van Braneveld
Premiere January 26, 2007, Lucent Danstheater, The Hague (Nl)
On Stage 20 Dancers
April 13, 14, 15, 2007
Teatro Albeniz, Festival Madrid en Danza
Press quotes
“We are all humans who have daily routines. We have similar rituals and habits. Yet… each one of us is trying to look for a unique path, wishing on the one side to be individual with our goals and on the other to be appreciated by the whole. It is OK to be one of a whole, but it is damn hard to be whole as a ‘one’.” Itzik Galili, 2007
“Heads or Tales” is just one such work of poetry that can be read in innumerable ways. Der Theater Verlag
Me
Choreography Itzik Galili
April 21 to 23, 2005
Teatro Madrid, Festival Madrid en Danza
For Heaven’s Sake
Choreography Itzik Galili
Music Jaap van Keulen
Live music Haytham Safia, Eran Horwitz, Tibi Golan, Mark Eliyahu, Samer Alayan
Dramaturgy Maaike Bleeker
July 2, 3 & 4, 2004
Forum 2004 program and GREC’2004 Festival, Mercat de les Flors, Sala Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Barcelona
In For Heaven’s Sake, Galili takes a look at his country, Israel, “where some people revel in a violence that to them is like a form of poetry and where others must live with want and wounds.”
Chronocracy
Choreography Itzik Galili
Music Gene Carl, for 7 pianos, violin and voice(s)
April 8 and 9, 2003
Teatro Madrid, Festival Madrid en Danza
For Heaven’s Sake
Choreography Itzik Galili
Music Jaap van Keulen
Live music Haytham Safia, Eran Horwitz, Tibi Golan, Mark Eliyahu, Samer Alayan
Dramaturgy Maaike Bleeker
December 15, 2002
DANTZALDIA festival, Euskalduna Palace, Bilbao, Spain
Press Quote:
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE
In a political respect, Galili is courageous by consistently pleading the necessity of the path of reason towards peace. Also in an artistic respect, he certainly does not lack guts in elaborating such a tricky theme in a piece that cleverly alternates passionate group dance with theatrical images, and which as a whole gets across as being extremely inspired.
NRC Handelsblad, 3 December, 2001
