Yaron Margolin

Yaron Margolin was born in 1954 in Tel Adashim

Yaron Margolin was born on June 5, 1954, in Tel Adashim, into one of the village's founding families. His father, Jacob, worked on farms, and his mother, Eve, was a Holocaust survivor who had danced with Mia Arbatova in Tel Aviv.

He began dancing as a child in his home village and in 1968 started studying with Yardena Cohen in Haifa. After the army he studied at Bat-Dor and later trained at Maurice Béjart's Mudra school in Brussels, as well as in Paris and New York.

In 1977 he joined the Batsheva Dance Company, where he debuted as a soloist in Anna Sokolow's work Rooms. He later danced with Flora Cushman's Jerusalem Dance Workshop, created his own recital and toured Europe and Mexico.

He founded the Yaron Margolin Dance Company in Jerusalem and in 1999 the Multicultural Dance Company, an amateur group of youth from varied backgrounds. His work Cursed Women included full nudity on an Israeli dance stage for the first time. He also developed the Margolin Method and wrote as a dance critic.

Margolin lives in Jerusalem and works as a healer. He is divorced and has 2 children.