Resume – Dance
Born in Israel
1962-1965 Lives in Nigeria
1984-1988 Lives and creates in Japan
1991-1992 Lives and creates in Japan
1995 Lives and creates in L.A.,California
1999-2006 Lives in Ein-Hod Artists Village.Studio in Ein-Carmel , Artists Workshops, Israel
2006-2018 Lives & creates in Zickron Yaakov , Israel
Studies in Israel
1966-69 Classic Ballet dance, Israel
1971-1975 Jazz Dance, Israel
1979 Fine Arts, Ein-Hod artists Village
1980-81 Graphic design, Wizo, College for design,Haifa, Israel
1979-1982 Creative dance & choreography, studio Yardena Cohen & studio Ruth Eshel
1998-2007 Practice the Alexander method with Nily Basan,Israel
2006-2017 Practice Ayengar Yoga in the Yoga Center of Eyal Shifroni, Israel
Studies in Japan
1985-1987 Butoh Dance with its founder Ohno Kazuo
1986-1992 Percussion with the Japanese Musician Kei Masuda
Projects & Performances
1988-1992 Bura-Bura , Open form Music. Duet for drums, percussion, flutes & voice, with
the Musician Kei Masuda, Concerts in Israel and Japan in collaboration with
musicians, art performers and dancers
1995 Performance with the butoh master Ohno Kazuo, Sesson Hall Theater ,Tokyo
1994 “Red Line” Dance & Music Event, Tel-Aviv Museum
1995 “Dance to the eye of the camera” – project with photographer Drora Spits ,
Tel Hai Museum of Photography.
1998 Butoh Dance, Naggler House, Haifa, Israel
1999 Butoh Dance, Ramat-Gan Theatre,Israel
1999 Japanese Poetry, Music and Butoh Dance, Confederation House, Jerusalem
2000 Butoh Dance in “Tikotin” – the Japanese Museum,Haifa, Israel
1998-2017 Facilitates Butoh Dance Workshops in Israel
2001 Butoh research workshop with the dancer/ Choreographer Ko Murobushi
Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
2002 “Concealed & Revealed “ , Mishkenot Sha’ananim ,Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Video Art “ The High Priest – Face- Inner Face “
2003 "Critical Mass " , Video Dance
2003 "Critical Mass " ,11 oil paintings , 1 video dance, Nessya Art Gallery,Ramat-Gan, Israel
2003 Dance & Media-Video Dance Festival, Goethe Institute Tokyo, Japan
2003 Solo Butoh Dance In the Helicon spring Cabaret "Metamorphosis",Old Jafa,Israel
2003 Butoh Gathering 2003 ,Emek Haela, Israel.Solo:"Between Breastplates",
Solo:"But its much too strong to let it now"
2003 Butoh Dance Event , Chan Theatre , Jerusalem, Israel
2003 Butoh Dance ,Beit Michal,Rehovot. Solo:"Light Beyond"
Solo:" A Bride Within a Thousand years".
2003 Butoh Dance "When the room becomes water", Shaar Festival of new Poetry 2003,
Helicon, Tel-Aviv
2003 A Dance Essay:" The High Priest: Face – Inner Face". Published in "Nashim"
A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues
2003 " Women, War and Peace…", Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem
2004 Solo Butoh Dance performance:"Point of View", "From the Blue",
In "Alternative Life House ", Tel-Aviv.
2004 "Butoh Time", Solo Dance Evening, Tmuna Theatre, Tel -aviv
2005 Solo Butoh Dance- "Dream Passengers", Shaar- International Poetry Festival,TA
2005 "Bow", Butoh Dance for 3 dancers, Jerusalem
2006 Duet Butoh , Café Tav , Jerusalem
2006 "The Dress",An Ensamble work , Tel-Aviv
2007 "Eye of the storm" ,Maya Dunsky- Butoh Dance Photography Exhibition,
The University Art Gallery, Tel aviv University , Tel Aviv. Catalogue.
2007 Butoh Dance in the Japanese Garden ,Carmiel,Israel
2007 Butoh dance" I lean upon the sea at the stern of my heart", Amir Orr
Poetry Book launch "Museum of Time ", Bialeik House , Tel Aviv
2007 Solo Butoh Dance "Driada",Shaar International Poetry Festival, Chan Theatre , Jerusalem
2008 VDance –International Video dance Festival ,"critical Mass", Cinematheqe ,
Tel-Aviv Credited with honor & appreciation
2008 "Aquarium" , Duet, Carmel. Dance Festival ,Israel
2008 Established "Menifa" ' Butoh dance ensemble.
2008 "When the room become water", Maya Dunsky & Ensamble "Menifa" Butoh Dance Performance
with Video art , Inbal Theatre,Suzan Dellal dance center ,
Tel-Aviv Supported by Mifaal Hpais and Rabinowich fund
2009 "Puminjai", solo, Tikotin, Japanese Art Museum, Haifa, Israel
2010 "A moon between my teeth" ,Solo, launching poetry book by Amir Or,
Beit Bialik museum, Tel-Aviv.
2010 Solo Butoh dance, in "Dreaming reality?" art exibition, Pyramid, center
for contemporary art, Haifa,Israel
2011 "Butoh Soul Dance" , Museum Wilfrid Israel,Kibuts Hazorea, 2 solo
dance pieces "Nafafuri" , "Reserved seat"
2011 An evening of Solo Butoh dance works, Nahmani Theater,Tel-Aviv
2011 "Transparent letter", Solo Butoh dance , Beit Hagefen Theatre , Haifa,Israel
2012 "Nameless Whisper", Solo butoh dance , Butoh & Japanese Avantgarde conference,
Hecht Museum & Theatre. Haifa University ,Israel
2012 "Another Option", Solo Butoh dance, Mystic Rose, Tel Aviv
2013 "La Voce Del Corpo", The Voice of the body, contemporary art exhibition, Osnago,Italy
2013 An evening of Butoh dance solo works, Zichron Yaakov culture Hall,Israel
2013 "Butoh- Dance of the Soul", Japan Embassy, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 Solo Butih dance, Japan embassy in Israel,Tel Aviv
2014 "Table Of Silence ",Solo for live music by the composer Ethan Steinberg, with Yael Barolsky
violin & Amit Landau- Viola. Hateiva,Theatre,Jaffa Tel Aviv 2015 Video art [ Seven Sins]
2015 "Elegant It's Not Goona Be ..."- video art, for " 7 Sins" – group exhibition,
"Hasuka" Gallery,Binyamina,Israel
2015 “Seeds and sound”, performed with vocal artist Etty Ben Zaken, Haifa university, Israel
2015 3 days Intensive Butoh workshop and Artist talk,Berlin, Germany
2016 “Between 2 to 4”, Solo Festival, Hayadit theatre, Pardes Hana, Israel
2016 “Table of Silence” – Project.1hour solo Butoh performance & video art,
Theater Institute , Warsaw, Poland
2016 4 days Intensive Butoh workshop, Warsaw, Poland
2016 AVI-Art Video International Festival 2016,The Israeli Film museum,Jerusalem
2017 “Navel”- Solo Butoh Dance, with the vocal artist Etty BenZaken,Hateiva theater,Tel Aviv,Israel
2017 “Muted Dreamer”-Solo Butoh Dance,with Modalius Ensemble,Hateiva theater,Tel Aviv,Israel
2017 4 days Intensive Butoh workshop, Warsaw, Poland
2017 "4 sketches for a woman",Butoh dance performance - Trio "for you are..." Solo " Eye Land ", The Academy for performing arts, Tel Aviv,Israel
2017 "Punctuation marks in a sentence of Eternity" - creates & performs in a multidisciplinary stage project with a wide participation of artists from Israel and abroad, by Yenin Shilo Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv,Israel
2018 "Intake" - Video art / dance
2018 Dream Yard – Duet,Dutoh dance. "La Voce Del Corpo", The Voice of the body, contemporary arts Festival, Italy
2018 Void- Space- Creation, Artist talk with a multidisciplinary art presentation, Wild Kids Animation Center, Jerusalem,Israel
2018 " With Hands Outstretched ", solo butoh dance inspired by poetry of Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur ,
from her book "Anar Balchi " , Sufi Poetry ,"Orpheus in Jaffa 20, Jaffa Theatre, Tel- Aviv