Hillel Kogan is an award-winning choreographer, dancer, dramaturge and teacher, whose work has been performed in venues and festivals all over the world. Kogan has performed as a guest with Batsheva Dance Company and works as Assistant Choreographer to Ohad Naharin since 2005. Awards as a choreographer include The Israel Critics’ Circle’s Outstanding Choreographer of 2013. Kogan was named as a Promising Choreographer by the european magazine Tanz in 1999 and 2014 and won The Landau prize (2015). Kogan is a member of the Israeli Choreographers’ Association since 2009 and was appointed by the Israeli ministry of culture as co-­artistic director of the Curtain Up Festival in 2015 and 2016. He collaborates with various choreographers in the Israeli independent dance scene. He works internationally as a teacher in Gaga, repertoire (his own and other’s) and contemporary dance and has taught at companies such as Norway’s Carte Blanche, Gauthier Dance in Germany, IT Danza in Spain, and more, and recently created a piece for Ballet du Capitole in France. www.gagapeople.com