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Shi Pratt

Shi Pratt is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Pratt is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Instructor and Gaga teacher.

Pratt has worked with various professional dance companies and independent choreographers, such as Batsheva Dance Company, Andersson Dance, Vertigo Dance Company, The Instrument, Idan&Friends, Fiksdal/Lie and Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company.

Information

(Objekt ID 9708)
Object type Person
Born May 11, 1980
Functions Choreographer, Dancer, Teaching
Nationality American, Israeli
Gender Female
Email shipratt@gmail.com
Adresse Etterstadgata 28b, 0658 Oslo, Norway
Website Wix.com -shipratt, Facebook

Kvalifikasjoner

Teaching experience:

Gaga:
Classes and workshops in Ohad Naharin's Gaga technique through Bat Sheva Dance Company and independently around the world.

Notable platforms: Ensemble Bat Sheva Dance Company, Gaga People Tel Aviv, Proda Oslo, Proda Stavanger, Norsk Ballettinstitutt, Schous Kulturstasjon - Spin Off, Dansverkstæðið Reykjavik, Iceland Dance Company, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Harare International Festival of the Arts, Bærum Kulturhus, Palucca Dresden, Andersson Dance Company, Danscentrum Stockholm, Proda Trondheim, DansiT, DOCH
Stockholm, Dance City UK, and The National Ballet Zimbabwe.

Personal Movement and Choreography:
Master classes around the world, teaching choreographic material from various pieces. Both teaching master classes and choreographing on the graduates of Hof Hakarmel Dance Program, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Harare International Festival of the Arts, Schous Kulturstasjon Oslo, amongst others.

Repertoire:
Classes, repertoire and workshops for Bat Sheva Dance Comapny, Inbal Pinto Dance Company and Vertigo Dance Company, as well as own choreographies in various locations around the world.

Notable platforms: Sacramento University in California, White Bird Portland, Trafo Budapest, Proda Stavanger, Norway, Bærum Kulturhus, Schous Kulturstasjon - Spin Off and RAS Sandnes, Norway amongst many others.

Contact improvisation:
Contact Improvisation workshops and lessons through the Vertigo Dance Company in various studios, festivals and locations around the world.

Modern and jazz dance:
Tivon Center of Performing Arts and in different studios in: Tel Aviv, Merkaz Marav Hof Hakarmel, Ramat Gan, Haifa and Natania.

Other techniques:
Pilates: teaching at Balanced Body Conditioning Studio, Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
GYROTONIC® at Orange County Gyrotonic, California, USA and Gyrotonic Oslo, Norway. GYROKINESIS® at Gyrotonic Oslo, Harare International Festival of the Arts , Proda Oslo, Center for African Culture Oslo, Spinta Oslo, Proda Trondheim, DansiT.

Source:

E-mail from Shi Pratt, 12.10.2012

Other

Shi Pratt has also been involved in:

DANCE:

Name of the Next Song by Örjan Andersson/Andersson Dance (SE). Premiered at Aarhus Teater in January 2012.

Art Hall Project by Örjan Andersson/Andersson Dance (SE). Premiered at Es Baluard, Mallorca in January 2012.

The Other Room by Örjan Andersson/Andersson Dance (SE). Site specific work, premiered in October 2011 at Arkitektet Museet Stockholm.

Almost Human by Idan Yoav (IL). Premiered in September 2011 at Shades of Dance Festival at Suzanne Dallal Center, Tel Aviv.

The Orchard Ballads by Ingri Fiksdal (NO) in collaboration with Phaedra at Moldejazzfestivalen July 2011.

Beatnaga ii galgga gulgii geahččats (Donʼt Judge a Dog by itʼs Fur) by Elle Sofe Henriksen (NO). Performed at Vårslepp, Dansenshus Oslo May 2011.

Girl Bites Hand by Maya Lipsker/The Instrument (DE/IL) performed at Random Collision Residency #10 in Groningen, The Netherlands, Dock11 Berlin and in Kammer Machen Festival IV, Germany (2010-2011).

Grus by Fiksdal/Lie (NO) performed at The Harare International Festival of the Arts 2010, Zimbabwe.

Numa's Dream A solo by Maya Lipsker/The Instrument (DE/IL) at TanzFestival Freiburg 2009 and in Kammer Machen Festival IV, Germany (2010).

The Wind is High By Inbal Shahar (IL) performed at Intima Dance Festival 2008.

Inbal Pinto Dance Company - (2004-2009):

By Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak: Oyster, Boobies, What Good Would The Moon Be..., Shaker, Armide (in co production with Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and The Israeli Opera), Hydra, Trout (In collaboration with The Kitchen Orchestra and in co-production with Stavanger 2008), Rushes (co-production with Pilobolus Dance Company, USA)

By Talia Beck: Saudade

Bat Sheva Ensemble Dance Company – (2000-2003):

By Ohad Naharin: Anaphasa, Deca Dance, KYR, Dancing Party, Zachacha, Plastelina, Minus 6, Decathalon, Kamuyot

By Sharon Eyal: After Love

By Eldad Ben Sasson: Mia

By Ronit Ziv: Undress

By Maya Lipsker: Nina, Urbania

By Arkadi Zaides: Girl Under Tree

Vertigo Dance Company – (1998-2000):

By Adi Shaal and Noa Wertheim: Symbiosis, Bordomino, Hamsin, Power Dance

By Neta Pulvermacher (The Neta Dance Company, New York): Para Aduma

By Gabor Goda (Artus, Hungary) : Gas Heart

Project with Adam Benjamin (Candoco Dance Company) - contact improvisation for disabled and nondisabled dancers. (1999)

Rina Sheinfield Dance Theater - (1998):

Bach by Rina Sheinfiel


CHOREOGRAPHY:

We Are Not Sheep in collaboration with Noora Nenonen (FIN) & Helen Gold (UK). Premiered in Barcelona, July 2011.

She Never Wore Black Lipstick Again Premiered at Dansens hus Oslo, May 2011.

6 Words BIDE-Barcelona International Dance Exchange -performance at La Caldera, Barcelona (2011).

Assistant to choreographer Masja Abramsen in Ballettlaboratoriet at the Norwegian National Ballet in 2010.

Lluvia - performed in 2006 by the graduates of the dance department in Hof Hakarmel.

Choreography and dance for the play The World We Live In by Karel Čapek, performed by the graduates at Ort Grinberg High School in 1998.


FILM/VIDEO DANCE CREATIONS:

6 Words - Video dance with score by Susanne Sundfør, premiered at CanalMono Film Festival in Barcelona. (2011)

Split Screen - a 60 second short in collaboration with Yoav David (IL). (2011)

Source:

E-mail from Shi Pratt, 12.10.2012

More

Source:

E-mail from Shi Pratt, 12.10.2012

Education

2004: Nigel Charnock - workshop in Tel-Aviv, Israel

1998: Summer workshop with Jennifer Muller (New York) and her company which included a performance called The Spotted Owl

1996-1998: Bat Dor School Of Dance

1993-1998: Summer workshops with Zvi Gotheiner (of Zvi Dance, New York), Naomi Perlov and Ido Tadmor

1994: Matan- Center of Arts and Culture

Adam and Ilana Pasternak's Studio in Haifa.

Performing Arts Center in Kiryat Tivon.

Ort Greenberg High School, department of performing arts.

Source:

E-mail from Shi Pratt, 12.10.2012