Noa Zuk (Israel) is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She danced in the Batsheva Dance Company until 2009, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin. Noa danced in all of his creations for the company during those years, and was part of the original cast of pieces such as Naharin’s Virus, Mamutot, Telophaze, Three, Furo, and Max. She performed and toured extensively on the company’s many international tours. During her time with BDC, she also worked with and performed works by choreographers such as Mats Ek (Cullberg Ballet), Sharon Eyal (LEV Dance Company) Jiří Kylián (NDT), Yasmeen Godder, and Yoshifumi Inao (Norwegian National Ballet). She received the Yair Shapira award for excellence in dance in 2007. Since 2009 Noa has created her own works and collaborated extensively with interdisciplinary artist Ohad Fishof creating performing and touring nationally and internationally. In summer 2014 she was commissioned to create a new piece for Repertory Dance Theater in Utah. Her collaboration Garden of Minutes, with Ohad Fishof, was premiered as part of the Curtain Up Festival in Tel Aviv, in 2015. Noa is also a renowned teacher. She has been teaching composition, technique, and repertory workshops (both of her own work and of Naharin’s choreographies) worldwide, and is a Gaga movement language teacher since 2007. www.gagapeople.com