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. urishafir.com