Lia Zigdon

Lia is an Israeli artist and performer. At 3 years old she started her dance journey and from early on, she focused her dance training on ballet and contemporary. At 13 Lia started her studies at “Thelma Yellin School Of The Arts” where she had the opportunity to expand her dance experience and knowledge in Horton, Vaganova, contemporary, improvisation and creation techniques. During her studies, she also got to collaborate and perform with renowned Israeli choreographers including Nadav Zelner, Yoram Karmi, Noa Zuk and Mor Shani. Over the years, Lia also got exposed to Gaga and Batsheva repertoire when she studied for a year in “Batsheva – The School” and for another year in “The Green house – Batsheva Dance company”.

After graduating with honours from her high school studies, she joined the two years Dance Workshop “Ga’aton program” and worked with choreographers such as Andrea Martini, Keren Levy, Roni Chadash, Roy Assaf and Ofir Yudlievitch. She also had the privilege of performing with repertoires by Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Batsheva Dance Company and Kibbutz Dance Company. Lia also collaborated as a freelance dancer with the choreographer Odelya Kuperberg in the piece “Over My Dead Body” between the years 2022-2023 and got to perform in “Suzanne Dellal Centre”. Currently she is a member of SUB.LAB.PRO The Ensemble Program.

“For me, dance is my way to connect and discover my inner self as a human being with the understanding that we are, as living creatures, changing constantly. Every day I get to research and to aspire to overcome my old and new limits, and to find within myself new parts I didn’t know exsisted. I believe that dance and movement are important for everyone, also for people that are non dancers or non artists, and can heal and encourage a variety of emotions such as curiosity, empathy, freedom, embarrassment, anger, laughter… and to help us feel ourselves and our full range of being as a whole. My goal is to be open minded, to learn new things and to not take anything for granted.”