Itzik Galili

Itzik Galili was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv

Itzik Galili was born on December 31, 1961, in Tel Aviv. He grew up there as the eldest of 3 siblings.

He served in a combat unit of the IDF. He later studied choreography and composition in Guildford, southwest of London.

He danced with Batsheva 2, Bat-Dor and the Batsheva Dance Company, and his dancing career lasted from 1982 to 1994. He also began creating works in Israel, and his piece Old Cartoons won an originality prize at the Gvanim competition in 1991.

In 1991 he moved to Amsterdam and founded his own company. In 1997 the Dutch culture ministry named him artistic director of a new publicly funded company in Groningen, which he led until 2008. In 2009 he became co-artistic director of Dansgroep Amsterdam with Kristina de Chatel.

He has created works for many dance companies around the world, as well as choreography for opera and television. His work A Linha Curva won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2009.