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Dana Ruttenberg
Contemporary
Biography:
Israeli born dancer and choreographer, Dana Ruttenberg
graduated from The Bat-Dor School of Dance and the Thelma
Yelin High-school for Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. in Dance
from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude and an MFA in
Dance from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival
program.
As artistic director of her NY based dance troupe between 2000-
2003, The Red Hill Project, she has created works that
showcased at various venues, including Dancenow/NYC, Joyce
Soho, Mulberry Theater's Newsteps Festival, University
Settlement, Minor Latham Playhouse, White Wave, and Toronto
Fringe Festival, among others. Since her return to Israel in 2003,
she has been teaching, giving workshops and choreographing
for the Batsheva Dance Ensemble, OtherDance Festival,
IntimaDance Festival, Curtain Up Festival and Dance Arena
festival, to name a few. Her piece 'Park part I" and evening of
works titled "On All Fours" was chosen to be part of the repertory
of Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv. She was chosen to take part in the
inaugural year of the Sugar Salon Residency in New York, where
she created alongside Bessie Award Winner Susan Marshall. The
resulting work, titled "pixels on the Rocks" awarded her the 2nd
prize at the A.W.A.R.D Show in NY's Joyce Soho. She continues to
produce and present her own work in Israel and abroad. Her
recent Dance-Film Private I's (Director: Oren Shkedy) has
screened at international film festivals in Chille, USA, Portugal
and Mexico.
Dana continues to create choreography for various theater and
TV productions throughout Israel, teach and perform abroad
(Senegal, USA, Hungary, South Africa, Italy and Russia to name a
few). She teaches in various dance departments and
conservatories and gives workshops regularly. She was recently
chosen as one of "The Future Generation" women by The Marker
W Magazine. in 2013, she will be a visiting artist at Florida
University as part of Schusterman Foundation's Visiting Artist
Program.
For more information, please visit her group’s
website.