Shahar Binyamini

SHAHAR BINYAMINI a choreographer and performer from Israel.
Shahar Binyamini danced with Batsheva Dance Company from 2006 to 2013.
Among others Shahar Binyamini created international works for:
MENSCH (2016) for the Ballet of Saarländisches Staatstheater (D), LUNGS (2016) for UCLA
(USA), EMPTY3 (2017) for Ate9 (USA) and Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus
Stuttgart (D), PARADISO (2018) for Frontier Danceland (SGP), VULNER (2018) for Norrdans (S),
BALLROOM (2019) forFestspielhaus St. Pölten (A), and I AM (2019) for Ballet du Rhin (F). MORE
THAN (IL) 2022, SUAVE (2023) for SPCD (BR).
As an assistant for Ohad Naharin, Shahar Binyamini is working with dance companies around
the world, including: Paris Opera Ballet (F), Ballet BC (CND), Nederlands Dans Theater (NL),
Compañía Nacional de Danza (E), Finish National Opera (FIN), Gothenburg Opera House (S),
Hannover Ballet (D) and Bordeaux National Ballet (F).
Since 2013, together with professor Atan Gross from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Shahar
Binyamini established a research group of dancers, scientists and choreographers called TNUDA
which is based in Weizmann Institute and explores the connection between science and
movement. In 2020, Shahar is the first artist ever invited by the Weizmann Institute of Science to
participate in a unique artist residency program during which he created “EVOLVE” which
premiered at the institute and toured around the world.
Shahar won the Israeli Minister Of Culture Award for-The promising choreographer of the year
2021.