Yael Flexer MPhil/PhD

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As choreographer in residence at The Place Theatre, and creator of dance company ‘Bedlam’, Israeli born Yael has created 7 full-length dance productions, touring extensively in major festivals throughout the UK and internationally. In 1997 she received The Jerwood Award for Choreographers. She has been commissioned to make work for, among others, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Scottish Dance Theatre, Ludus Dance Company, E-Werk Dance Festival and 4D (edge). Site Specific commissions and interactive installations include work for: The National Theatre, The Circus Space, South Bank Centre and Dias de Dansa.

Her research is concerned with generating a sense of intimacy in live performance and interactive installation through the reconfiguration of theatrical space. It brings to the fore a fluid definition of audience as viewer, witness, participant or user and aims to both reaffirm and critically examine embodied perceptual experience as route to intimacy. The choreographic and theoretical research bridges phenomenological and physiological perspectives together with somatic practices focusing in particular on Gestalt field theory and the Authentic Movement model of mover/witness and collective body.

Shrink’d Yael Flexer, Bedlam Dance Company