arkadi zaides
Media:
choreography:
since 2004 arkadi has been working as a free-lance choreographer. his works have been shown in numerous international festivals in israel, switzerland, italy, the czech republic, holland, india, hungary, poland, spain, sweden, romania, germany, china, taiwan, and japan, amongst others. in 2002 and 2004 he created works for the batsheva ensemble, and in 2007 he collaborated with seven japanese artists, from different artistic media, to create a multi-disciplinary work in japan.
awards:
in 2008 and in 2009 arkadi was awarded israel’s ministry of culture and sport prize for young artist of the year in the field of dance. in 2006 he was one of three finalists in the third round of the rolex mentor and protege art initiative in the dance category, and as a result he received financial assistance to support him in his artistic work in that same year. In 2008 his work ‘adamdam’ won third prize in the international choreography competition ‘no ballet’ which is held in ludwigshafen, germany. his video dance ‘solo siento’ a collaborative project with video artist shira miasnik, won first prize in the ‘vdance’ festival, the international video dance festival held in tel aviv in 2007.
dance:
in 1999 arkadi completed his studies in art and dance in misgav and joined noa dar’s dance company. in the same year he joined the batsheva ensemble and in 2001 he joined the batsheva dance company as a dancer and choreographer, where he stayed until 2004. during those five years he appeared in ohad naharin’s works: ‘anaphaza’, ‘zechacha’, ’kir’, ’perpetuum’, ‘dancing party’, ‘z/na’, ‘tabula rasa’, ‘virus’, ’passomezzo’, ‘sabotage baby’, ‘black milk’, ‘deca dance’ and ‘mamootot’. he also danced in works choreographed by mats ek, sharon eyal, paul norton, and yasmeen godder among others. he has collaborated with the duo of choreographers ‘matanicola’, and with the berlin based group of artists ‘bridge on a wall’.
community:
embedded in arkadi’s work is a belief that the role of art is to challenge and inspire viewers, while simultaneously it has a larger universal role to reach out and bring together different communities and different sectors of society. arkadi is increasingly working in diverse communities, focusing primarily on the arab sector in israel. among the activities he has initiated is a project with the theatre group ‘oyoun’ in magdal-shams, a druze village which is situated in the golan heights, as well as a project in rabeah morkus’s dance studio in yasif village in the north of israel. arkadi also teaches a group of orthodox jewish males as part of the ‘other move project’, jerusalem.
teaching:
since 2001 arkadi has been teaching ‘gaga’, the movement language of choreographer ohad naharin. he teaches both dancers and non-dancers in israel and abroad. in addition, on a regular basis, he teaches workshops, master classes, and technique classes that combine release technique, feldenkrais, yoga and other influences which use the body in a healthy and appropriate way through movement exercises.
