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Hagit Yakira

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Hagit Yakira is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher currently working in London. She graduated from the Music and Dance Academy in Israel and the Laban Centre. She is also a qualified Dance Movement Therapist.

In recent years, after years of performing and teaching dance internationally, she has been developing her own choreographic work; creating unique dance theatre performances, working on solo works, on group works as well as collaborating with other dancers, musicians, designers, film makers and actors; performing around London the UK (Including Derby Dance, The Point, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and more), Europe (winning the second place at Burgos New York Dance competition, Spain for New Dance Category 2007 and more), Finland and Israel.

 

On 9 February 2009, she won the first prize at the Kajaani dance competitiion in Finland. 

 

Oh Baby

 

In an energetic and playful duet, a man and a woman are dealing with duality, individuality, with loving and being loved, with intensity and moments of subtleness, with fiction and reality …

 

Choreographer: Hagit Yakira
Performed By: Takeshi Matsumoto and Hagit Yakira
Costume Design: Giulia Scrimeri
Music: Portia Winters and Jacob Doran

 

 

Reviews for Oh Baby at Resolution, 12 February 2009:

 

"Hagit Yakira's duet Oh Baby steps stylishly beyond the usual danced musings on coupledom... Rather than presenting a generic scenario, though, expecting our empathy, they humorously ape work of similar themes, drawing parallels, through game playing, with the process of dance making itself.... "

 

- Thom Shaw

 

 

"Takeshi Matsumoto and Hagit Yakira bore into the heart of human desire and never get lost. Oh Baby is a riot from the get-go. Impossibly yet plausibly loveable, the pair exhibits the craziness that only true intimacy permits, as they sing, laugh, exhale, roll, squeal, embrace, tease, grope, beg and posture their way through a relationship...

 

- Tara Paulsson 

 

 

(Full reviews can be read here)

 

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