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Yasmeen Godder -
Choreographer & Dancer |
| IcExcellence chosen artist since 2004 |
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"The incredible work 'Two Playful Pink' leaves the audience amazed in face of its invention and talent. The greatest artistic accomplishment of this creation is its movement vocabulary: every move is legitimate, and Godder turns it into something fascinating, dangerous and surprising. "
Ruth Eshel, Haaretz, Nov. 16, 2003
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Yasmeen Godder was born and raised in Jerusalem, and moved to New York with her family at age eleven. She graduated from the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City, and received her BA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Since 1999, she has been living in Tel Aviv and working with her own dance troupe. Her works have regularly been presented at the main dance festivals at the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Tel Aviv, and various venues throughout the world, including Russia, Germany, England, Hungary, France, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Korea and the US.
Yasmeen is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the most prestigious in the dance world - the Bessie Award in New York in 2001, for the presentation of "I Feel Funny Today." Her works have been commissioned by DTW, The Kitchen and Dancing in the Streets in New York City, and the Lab Theater in Jerusalem. She has twice received the Israeli Ministry of Cultural Affairs "Choreographers Award" in the years 2001 and 2003, and her company received the Ministry's award for "Small Ensemble" in dance in 2003. In addition, she received the Rubinstein Award for the Performing Arts, Hasia Levy Agron Choreography Prize, the Rabinovich Foundation and lottery grants, as well as a special scholarship from the Ballet Master Albert Gaubiers Fund in Denmark. Most recently she has received the prestigious Landau Prize from the Paris Foundation.
To date Yasmeen has created five full evening-length works, "Hall" (2001), "Sudden Birds" (2002), "Two Playful Pink" (2003), Yasmeen Godder and the Bloody Bench Players present "Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder" (2004), and "I'm Mean, I Am" (2006). In addition, she created several short works, including "Green Fields" for the Batsheva Ensemble, and UNDER2 ( 2005) a work commissioned by Matanicola Production and the Sasha Waltz and Guests Company.
She constantly enjoys rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.
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"During the summer of 2006 Godder presented "Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder" at The renowned Lincoln Center and performed "Two Playful Pink" at the Kalamata Festival in Greece. In addition, she went on a two week tour throughout Denmark as part of the Images of the Middle East Festival.
In November 2006 her new work, "I'm mean, I am," premiered at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Berlin in co-production with the Centre Nationale de la Danse in Paris and has since performed at the Teatro Communale di Ferrara and the Santarcangelo Festival both in Italy, at the Place Theater in London and at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel-Aviv. In April 2007, Godder's work "SUDDEN BIRDS (2002) was invited to a month long tour in Germany, Poland and Spain.
Most recently, Godder has opened her own Studio in Jaffa. The studio has become a center for all of her activities including rehearsals, classes and starting this winter also performances. In celebration of this exciting development, Godder will hold a weeklong event, "Home Field" (September 15-20) in which she will present 5 different works from her repertoire and invite guest performances and exhibitions of collaborators.
In May 2007 a book about her work was published in Italy, and was presented at the "Fabbrica Europa" in Florence, where Godder also presented her work.
For more information please visit: http://www.yasmeengodder.com
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IcExcellence is supporting Yasmeen in tailor-made artistic programs, and providing special career advancement consulting.
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"Ordinary gestures of a man and a woman are changed into intensive and stylish dance that does not allow us to catch our breath. The tension that can be called “physical politics” shows her extraordinary talent as a choreographer."
Tatsuro Ishii, Japanese Dance Magazine, Feb. 1st 2007
"The Choreography, the dramaturgy, the interior rhythm of this work, has all been done with astonishing talent".
Ruth Eshel, Ha'aretz, Dec. 12th 2006
"In "Two Playful Pink" a bewitching duet...these gorgeous young viragos intentionally risk looking grotesque, but are never less than riveting to watch."
Donald Hutera, London Timeout, Nov. 20th, 2005
"The most sensational topic this festival was, “Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder... With no doubt, it is an excellent piece... It proved that this is powerful enough to make such a big difference among the audience. You saw different reactions among the foreign audience, such as those who have shown their uneasiness clearly, and those who were weeping with tears.."
Takao Norikoshi, Japanese Dance Magazine, 2005
...”The performance is permeated by intellectual pregnancy and consequentially ends with ironic elegance..."
Öjan Abraharmsson, The Daily News ( Sweden), Nov. 20th 2005
"The personal is political... Yasmeen Godder talks about something which touches all of us from the inside."
Gianni Manzella, il Manifesto, Italy
"The understanding that the piece is a personal-political work, in its most immediate and instinctive level, contributes to the perfect timing of its coming about on the landscape of current activity here."
Jacque Farber, Kol Ha'Ir, November 2004
"There are not many Israeli artists, neither in dancer nor in other disciplines, whose work raises so much anticipation, curiosity and suspense. In her unique way, Godder not only rose up to the expectations, but succeeded again to surprise, stir and challenge what is known and familiar... Godder forces Israeli dance to redefine the borders of sensitivity, themes and even the make do with strawberry cream. The smell of gunpowder will accompany the creative performers and us, the audience, wherever we go."
Gilad Reich, Globs, November 2004
"...a fist in the stomach, thought provocative, detailed, original, and direct...a powerful experience, a tour de force."
Gabi Aldor, Ha'Ir, Nov. 20, 2003
"The audience enjoyed her sense of humor very much, which is so serious that it looks funny...
Godder uses deformity as a tool, and works it into a masterpiece -
which is insatiable."
Merav Yudolevich, YNET Culture, Nov. 17, 2003
"...the dancers are not dancers only: they are both marvelous acrobats and actors at the same time...I should never have believed it possible....an excellent and deeply
moving show."
Koznevles, Hungary
"For sheer emotion and drama, one couldn't beat Yasmeen Godder's dance/performance piece 'Hall.'"
Jeffrey Day, The State, S. Carolina, May 2003
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