Sharona Florsheim – Choreographer, Improvisation Artist – Israel

Sharona Florsheim is a choreographer and improvisation artist based In Israel.

In her choreographic work she brings together complex structures of improvisation and set material, emphasizing the relationships formed in real time between space, performers, and audience.  Her recent work includes: The Big Game (2012), Connectivity Practices (2014), Noa’s Secret of Infinity (2015) Fragile Formation (2016) and The One Hand Sound (2017).

Her artistic work, presented in Europe, Africa and regularly performed in Israel, is deeply inspired by individual uniqueness and identity and how they both relate to a larger whole. Over the years she has collaborated with musicians, video artists, and theater directors from Israel and around the world to create her unique and poignant style of work.

In addition to her own choreographic work, Sharona has been the artistic director of Noga Dance Company since its establishment in 2009: a unique professional framework for religious women to choreograph and perform. She teaches in the dance department at Orot Israel College, and is an associate director. She initiates and guides Design in Motion workshops for artists and students from various art disciplines, focusing on somatic learning and experience in creative processes.

Sharona graduated from the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, and holds a BA in psychology from Haifa University and an MA in choreography from the Dance Unlimited program in the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, Holland.

She is a devoted student of the body.