Ronen Izhaki

Ronen Izhaki

Ronen Izhaki

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Head of the Movement Department

Ronen Izhaki is a choreographer and CEO and Artistic Director of the culture association known as Between Heaven and Earth.

Holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, in cooperation with Hebrew University. A student of Prof. Ruth Ziv Eyal. As a choreographer, he works with Tammy Izhaki, his partner in art and in life. Their works have been shown throughout Israel and around the world, starting in 2002. He taught at the Theater and Dance department at the Kibbutz Seminar, as well as at the Theater department at the Hebrew University.

In his work, Ronen investigates movement and sensory processes in order to produce meaningful performances on stage that play in the space between the abstract and the concrete, and that create a physical and non-verbal narrative. 

Since 2008, Ronen has been managing Between Heaven and Earth where dancers, musicians, visual artists, intellectuals, and poets work together to create contemporary art that offers a new narrative within the world of Israel discourse. The new narrative challenges the established and accepted boundaries between the sectors of Israeli society and is an opportunity for a cultural meeting point between these sectors.