Collaborators

Matan danced in the BatSheva Dance Company, there worked with Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal, in Yasmeen Godder Dance Group, Iris Erez Dance Group, with Tom Weinberger, and more. Co-founder, artistic director, composer, and conductor of Castle in Time Orchestra, which performs in numerous festivals globally. Composing music for film and dance pieces performed by NDT 2 (NLD), AXIS dance company (USA), Johannes Weiland Company (GER), Heymann Brothers, and more. Received grants from America-Israel cultural foundation, the Israeli Lottery, Rabinovich Foundation, Siday scholarship for musical creativity through the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music, MASH, and ACUM. Teaches movement, composition, and soundpainting workshops globally in dance companies, studios, conservatories, and universities. Working as the musical advisor of the 'Newzik' platform. Holds a BA in composition and music education.

https://www.matandaskal.com/

After training at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Julliard School in New York, Milena Twiehaus (Germany, 1984) danced for several companies such as Europa Danse in France and IT Danza in Spain, eventually landing in Ohad Naharin’s Ensemble Batsheva in Israel. In 2008 Milena returned to Europe to work as a free lance. Except for her work with Amos and OFFprojects she’s worked with Itamar Serrusi and is a member of Emanuel Gat Dance. For many years she has been doing her work with imagery and video as a freelancer for various clients.

David Harvey is an independent dance artist from Seattle, Washington. After dancing with Alonzo King LINES Ballet for seven years, he now works as a freelance performer, choreographer and teacher. He has performed in new works by Kate Wallich, Bobbi Jene Smith, Sarah Foster-Sproull, and Tom Weinberger. Since 2018 Harvey has been working with David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen of Out InnerSpace Dance Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He regularly returns to Alonzo King LINES Ballet to teach and create new work for its education programs.

In 2021 Harvey became an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

Originally from just north of San Francisco, Sarah Butler received early dance training at the Marin Ballet School. She graduated from Cornish College of the Arts and was a founding member of Ate9 Dance Company from 2012 – 2020. She has guest taught at Cornish College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, John Hopkins University, and Ryan Heffington’s The Sweat Spot in Los Angeles. Sarah first worked with Tom in 2017 on the creation of an original work for Ate9, and again in 2018 on Familiar Foreign Body, sparking a meaningful and inspiring creative relationship. In addition to movement, she works with embroidery, wearable structure, poetry, photography, voice and song – building things & exploring how the weaving of seemingly separate mediums can result in something new. Her work has been shown as a part of DTLA Art Walk, Capitol Hill Art Walk, Franconia Sculpture Park, and was featured in Art Reveal Magazine.

Courtney Mazeika is a US-based movement artist and educator. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin; then trained under Summer Lee Rhatigan at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. As an independent artist, she has had the opportunity to perform in original works by Tom Weinberger, Bobbi Jene Smith, David Harvey, Christian Burns, Lone King Projects, Alex Ketley and more. Courtney has had the honor of being on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, and served as director of the SALT Pre-Professional Training Company. Her independent work has been shared at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, University of Texas at Austin, SALT Contemporary Dance I and II, Oquirrh West Project and more. Since 2018, she has been a collaborator and company artist with UNA Productions.

Aurélie Cayla was born in 1980 in Paris, France and studied dance at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon, from 1996-1999.

In 1999, she started dancing with Aalto Ballett Theater in Essen, Germany and joined Nederlands Dans Theater in 2002.

She graduated in Cultural Mediation-Art Management in September 2012, and represents choreographer Johan Inger since 2016, and Tom Weinberger since 2021

Presently, Aurélie Cayla is living in the Netherlands, is dancing as freelance artist for the collective OFFprojects (created in 2012 around dance works and installations of dutch-israeli choreographer-musician Amos Ben Tal), and stages works by Jiri Kylian for international dance companies.