Emory Dance Company Choreographer Dafi Altabeb

Photo of Dafi Altabeb by Nini Moshe

By Raven Crosby, Emory Dance Program Office Assistant

We are thrilled to have Israeli artist in residence Dafi Altabeb choreograph a new work for the Emory Dance Company this semester. Read on for more about Altabeb’s background and her new piece for the company!

Israeli Institute visiting artist Dafi Altabeb is the artistic director of Dafi Dance Group and works collaboratively with Nini Moshe, her life partner. Altabeb graduated from the Kibutzim College of Education with a BEd and a Teaching Diploma specializing in composition and EW Movement Notation. Altabeb is the recipient of the 2012, 2013, and 2016 Excellence Award for young choreographers from the Israeli Ministry of Culture, and received the Israeli Ministry of Culture performance award for 2018 ensemble for the piece It’s Now. It’s Never. She received the 2014 Rozenblum Award for Excellence from the Municipality of Tel-Aviv.

Photo of It’s Not a Pipe by Lori Teague

Altabeb’s newest work set on the Emory Dance Company is inspired by the famous surrealist painting of a pipe by René Magritte. It’s Not a Pipe explores collaboratively with her dancers “the gentle line between the global and the personal, the political and human issues that concern us all.”

Altabeb is an Israel Institute visiting artist at Emory University for fall 2019, and her residency is also supported by Emory’s Donna and Marvin Schwartz Artist-in-Residence Program.

Emory Dance Company performs November 21-23, 2019 in the dance studio of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased below using the link below.

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