Mor Mendel is a dance based performance artist, choreographer, improviser and educator. Based in Brooklyn NY, she grew up in Israel and earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv 2009, and a Masters in Dance and Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College New York 2014. Throughout, she has participated in different workshops and courses around dance, improvisation and other somatic fields as well as university courses in psychology and creative therapies. Over the last few years Mendel has been working with Parkinson patients, and her teaching focuses on dance as an individual pathway to freedom, self-expression and joy.
Her work was performed at Tel Aviv galleries, Acco of Alternative Israeli Theater (Israel), Gowanus Arts center, the 14Y, Fridman Gallery, Brooklyn Studios For Dance, BAAD!, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Pioneer Works, Collezione Maramotti (Italy), BigParadise, MOtiVE, Center for Performance Research. She is grateful to have worked with artists such as Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Hadar Ahuvia, Patricia Hoffbauer, Tamar Ettun, Stephanie Nelson, Yehuda Hayman, Rebbeca Medina, Mariangela Lopez, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Nikima Jagudajev among others. Mendel was a 2022 Movement Research Parent Artist in Residency.