MOR MENDEL

Mor Mendel is a performance artist, choreographer, dance improviser and educator.  Born in Pittsburgh USA she moved to Israel at the age of two. Mendel always danced but never defined technique or form as part of her dance calling. Instead she is invested in movement that is part of who we are in our everyday life, movement that has a play with imagination, intuition and personal stories. Dance as the playground of poetry, memories and the ones we love, music and our shared existence. 

Mendel is deeply engaged within the Dance for Parkinson community and other diverse populations and works both as a teaching artist of creative movement and improvisation as well as dance therapist. Mor holds a Pilates certificate which, combined with her ongoing studies of improvisation, a variety of somatic practices and yoga, brought her to create her own class where all of these meet in an ongoing flow of movement, imagination, strengthening and joy.

Mendel earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv as well as her Improvisation mastery with dancer Ilanit Tadmor. In 2012 Mendel moved to NY to complete her Masters in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. 

Her work was performed at Tel Aviv galleries, Gowanus Arts Center, the 14th Street Y, Fridman Gallery, Brooklyn Studios For Dance, BAAD!, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Collezione Maramotti in Italy, BigParadise and more. She is grateful to have worked with artists such as Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Hadar Ahuvia, Patricia Hoffbauer, Tamar Ettun, Stephanie Nelson, Yehuda Hayman, Rebbeca Medina, Mariangela Lopez, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Nikima Jagudajev among others.

In 2018, she became a mother and enjoys taking care of her two sons (born 2018 and 2021), the most creative act of her life.

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Photo: Bruno Cattani-Foto Superstudio