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Choreographers / performers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf started collaborating in 2005, and over the years they have built a reputation for work that is supremely physical, sometimes provocative, and by turns poignant and witty. The company performs throughout the world and won International choreography competitions in Germany ('Hanover'), Spain ('Burgos-New York'), Denmark (‘Dansolution’), Poland ('Serge Diaghilev'), Israel ('Ministry of Culture Award for ‘Outstanding Choreographers’ and ‘best solo artist performer’). They have Commissioned works for theaters and festivals throughout: Japan, USA, Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Croatia, Portugal, Greece etc. Their full evening work 'Heroes' was chosen by critics as one of the five best dance events in Israel.

In 2008, they were invited by the Joyce Theater Soho NY to take part in the APAP festival and chosen for AIR programs by the ‘Movement Research’ at Judson Church in New York and the ‘Artist Village’ in Taipei and were awarded by the European ‘Ballet Tanz’ magazine in the category "choreographers to watch". In 2009-2010 they were invited by 'Tanzplan' Dresden and 'Dansescenen' theater in Copenhagen to create their new works.

Their repertoire includes the works: "Animal lost", "4Men, Alice, Bach and the deer", "Heroes", "Most of the Day I'm Out",  "Bloody Disco", "The Picnic", "Wo-man in tomatoes", "Mechanical trio in a hot country ", "Bear-girl king", "Fairytales goes bad", "My space", "Optic", "Roots" and others.                                                               

Along the years they had the honor to be the guest choreographer in dance companies such as: ‘Batsheva Dance Ensemble' in Israel, ‘Donlon Dance Company',  ‘TanzTheater Osnabruck' and 'StaatsTheater Kassel' in Germany, ‘Introdans' in Holland, ‘Aura Dance Company' in Lithuania, ‘Polish Dance Theater', ‘Belgrade Drama Theater', ‘Muza Dance Company', ‘Seminar Hakibutzim University' in Israel; 'Junior Company' in Denmark and they teach and lead workshops in contemporary dance and improvisation throughout the world.

Yossi and Oded offer new ways of looking at dance and exploration of performance, and continue to challenge the personal and physical investigation as well as to produce a dialogue with artists from different fields.

Yossi Berg worked with DV8 Physical Theater in London, Batsheva Dance Company (6 years where he worked with choreographers as Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, Angelin Preljocaj among others), Yasmeen Godder Company, to name but a few. Since 97' his works are commissioned for the ‘Curtain-up / International Exposure' festivals at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv and various theaters throughout Israel and Europe.

Oden Graf's worked with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Noa Dar Dance Company and different independent Israeli and international productions. He started his choreographic way between Denmark and Israel and commissioned works for the Israel festival Jerusalem, the lab theater, ‘Curtain-up / International Exposure' festivals, Tmuna Theater and many others throughout Israel. He studies towards a B.A degree in communication at the Open University.

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