Shai Faran

Shai Faran is an Israeli dancer, teacher and choreographer, based in Europe.
After studying in the dance department at the Misgav High School, she continued her studies at the Haifa dance workshop for dancers and choreographers. In Israel, she danced for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company II, the Sigma Ensemble and the Dafi Altabab Dance Group. After studying and working in Israel, she moved to Europe, where she started to deepen her research, practice and methods of teaching and creating. She has worked with different choreographers such as Matej Kejzer, Maya M.Caroll, Zoe Knights, Yuval Pick, Shumpei Nemoto, Maura Morales Alessandro Sciarroni David Hernandez, Martin Kilvady and more and performed around Europe.

She created several works which won scholarships from the America- Israel Cultural Foundation, the foundation named after Ehud Manor and the cultural senate of Berlin.
In the last few years she has been teaching dance different frames for professional dancers, BA and MA education programs such as Danish National School of Performing Arts, Stockholm Uniarts, La-Manufacture in Lausanne, CCD University for Music and Dance in Cologne and more, in dance companies such as Cullberg Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theater, Corpus in Copenhagen and in open workshops around the world while developing her own work and working as a freelance dance performer, teacher and choreographer.

Photo: Barbara Dietl