Contemporary | Guest Choreographer
July 13 – July 20
Rafi Sady (he/him) trained at Bat Dor Beer Sheva/Tel-Aviv, Israel dance school. He was a member of the Cullberg Ballet (Sweden) for 14 years, where he danced many lead roles, including Carabosse in Mats Ek’s Sleeping Beauty and Don José in Mats Ek’s Carmen. Rafi also worked with world-renowned choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kylián, Christopher Bruce, Oscar Araiz, Rudi van Dantzig, Didy Veldman, Robert North, Kenneth Kvarnstrom, Carolyn Carlson, Örjan Andersson, and Cristina Caprioli, among others.
He was a Soloist with Bat-Dor dance company and a Principal Dancer for Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève for seven years. He made numerous guest appearances with companies, including Dutch National Ballet (Amsterdam) and the Royal Swedish Opera soloist company Stockholm 59°North (USA & Finland).
Since 2009, Rafi assists Mats Ek in teaching dance companies around the world: Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Zurich Ballet, The Royal Swedish Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), Opera de Paris, Staatsballett Berlin, and Norwegian National Ballet. Rafi taught Mats Ek’s Carmen to Sylvie Guillem and The Tokyo Ballet and presented an Ek repertoire workshop at The Juilliard School in New York City.
Additional credits include participation in Age On Stage, a dance project created by Charlotta Öfverholm, which collaborated with European project Dance On in Berlin with former dancers from The Forsythe Company and included working with choreographers Martin Harriague, Sharon Friedman, and Johannes Wieland. Since 2106 he has taught for the Maslool School of Contemporary Dance (Israel) and Arts Umbrella (Canada).
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