Artist
Hagit Yakira (UK/IL)
Hagit is a choreographer, performer and a dance teacher based in London. She graduated from the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, Israel and did her MA in European Theatre Dance at Laban Centre, London. She is also a qualified Dance Movement Therapist, and currently working on her PhD in Choreography at Laban Centre, researching the notion of choreographing autobiographies. She studied and danced in Paris, New York and Berlin and participated in workshops with leading choreographers around the world (to name only a few- Ohad Naharin, Yasmeen Godder, Milli Bitterli, Nigel Charnock, Rosalind Crisp, Rosemary Butcher).
Hagit is teaching technique classes at Laban and The Place, as well as working as a guest choreographer in both institutions for different projects and performances. She is leading the choreography course at Birkbeck University, and has been leading workshops internationally, teaching both the contemporary jazz class which she has been developing during the years, as well as creative work and choreography.
After years of performing and teaching, Hagit has been developing her own choreographic work. So far she has created several works, two of them were awarded: first prize for "Oh Baby" in the Kajaani Choreography Competition, Finland 2009, and second prize for "Somewhere between a self and an other" in the Burgos New York Choreography Competition (New Dance Trend Category), Spain 2007.
Hagit's choreographic work is supported by the Arts Council England, and commissioned by Laban Centre London, and she is touring in numerous festivals and dance platforms worldwide and she is now being commissioned to choreograph for different dance companies in Europe and Israel.
Photo: Hagit Yakira © Ruth Schocken Katz