Yasmeen Godder
Yasmeen Godder, was born and raised until the age of 14 in Jerusalem. As a child, she danced at Professor Hasia Levi-Agron’s class, and ballet at Yaakov Lipshitz’s in Jerusalem. In 1984, at the age of 11, Yasmeen and her family moved to New York City. She graduated from the High School of the Performing Arts there, and received a scholarship at the Martha Graham School in New York City. Her first creation was heavily inspired off of Admon Zabes’ letters. Upon finishing her studies, she returned to Israel, though returned to the United States for her academic studies, and received her BA in concert dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York Universitu in 1997, where she presented her works for the first time, and at the same time studied in other institutions outside Tisch as well, among them Movement Center.
After the completion of her academic studies in 1997, Yasmeen has been presenting her works in various places including Gowanus Arts Exchange. Following, she was invited to present her works at Duncan Center in Prague, Czech Republic.
Since 1999, she has been living in Tel Aviv. Her works have regularly been presented at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, and extensively throughout the world, for example at Lincol Center Festival in New York, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, the Place Theatre in London, the Montpellier Dance Festival in France, and many more. His company had recently won the Ministry of Culture’s Prize for Small Ensemble for the performance of Singular Sensation. In 2014, Godder created her first site-specific choreography for the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel as part of the exhibition ‘Set in Motion’ (co-curated by Drorit Gur Arie, and Avi Feldman). Following the exhibition, the first artist book dedicated to the work of Godder was published under the title: ‘Extremum – Reflections on the Works of Yasmeen Godder’.
Yasmeen is the artistic director of her dance company, where she teaches concert dance since her return to Israel. She has taught concert dance in several art schools in Israel, among them the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Bikurei HaItim in Tel Aviv. In 2007, she established the Yasmeen Godder Studio at the Mendel Culture Center in Jaffa.
After the completion of her academic studies in 1997, Yasmeen has been presenting her works in various places including Gowanus Arts Exchange. Following, she was invited to present her works at Duncan Center in Prague, Czech Republic.
Since 1999, she has been living in Tel Aviv. Her works have regularly been presented at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, and extensively throughout the world, for example at Lincol Center Festival in New York, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, the Place Theatre in London, the Montpellier Dance Festival in France, and many more. His company had recently won the Ministry of Culture’s Prize for Small Ensemble for the performance of Singular Sensation. In 2014, Godder created her first site-specific choreography for the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel as part of the exhibition ‘Set in Motion’ (co-curated by Drorit Gur Arie, and Avi Feldman). Following the exhibition, the first artist book dedicated to the work of Godder was published under the title: ‘Extremum – Reflections on the Works of Yasmeen Godder’.
Yasmeen is the artistic director of her dance company, where she teaches concert dance since her return to Israel. She has taught concert dance in several art schools in Israel, among them the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Bikurei HaItim in Tel Aviv. In 2007, she established the Yasmeen Godder Studio at the Mendel Culture Center in Jaffa.
