photo – Tamar Lamm
URI SHAFIR (1983) is a dancer, choreographer and a performance artist. Graduate of MASPA (kibbutz Ga’aton dance workshop). As a dancer, worked in Ensemble Batsheva Dance Company, and collaborated with Choreographers
such as Yasmeen Godder, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Maya
Levy & Anando Mars, Guy Gutman, Dafi Eltabeb and others.
Creating independent works since 2009, and has presented them in
different platforms such as Curtain Up, Hazira, Macholohet, (IL),
L1DanceFest (HU), APAP (USA) Tanec Praha (CZ), Lucky Trimmer (DE), Dance
Waves (CY) and more.
Uri is a Gaga teacher (Ohad Naharin’s movement language), leading Gaga
classes/workshops across the world.
Uri is a currently in his MA studies in Choreography under the Master
Exerce program in University of Montpellier, France.