shahar dor
Shahar Dor is an Improviser, Performer, Choreographer and Teacher and director of Artness. He explores, perform and teach the art of improvisational performance through movement, theatre, music live still photography and video. In the last 15 years Shahar has been deeply involved with improvisational performance art, collaborating with artists from all over the world, leading dance & theatre projects, teaching and performing in Israel and Europe.
Shahar is known for his character driven and cinematic approach towards the body and his corresponding eye with other arts and crafts in performance. His practice and exploration draws on a variety of movement-presence-performance techniques, vocal work, music & video, martial arts and the practice of meditation. His image based teaching and works creates an extensive vocabulary and shows a remarkable degree of humor, sensitivity and freedom in the communicative aspects spontaneous performance. As a Choreographer and Teacher Shahar has a unique ability reaching the most inner presence of his dancers and students, supporting them through the connections of physical & psychological aspects of movement creating a simultaneous experience of exploration, discipline, expression and freedom.
“In the privet body one looks for things to say, once in the improviser body one listens to things being said”