Dana Ruttenberg

Bio
Dana Ruttenberg - Israeli born dancer and choreographer, Dana Ruttenberg graduated from The Bat-Dor School of Dance and the Thelma Yelin High-school for Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. in Dance from Columbia University, Magna Cum Laude and is now pursuing her MFA in Dance with the ADF/Hollins Progran. She is a member of the Israeli Choreographers’ Association.
As artistic director of her NY based dance troupe, The Red Hill Project, she has created works that showcased at various venues, including Dancenow/NYC, Joyce Soho, Mulberry Theater’s Newsteps Festival, White Wave, and Toronto Fringe Festival, among others. Since her return to Israel in 2003, she has been teaching, giving workshops and choreographing for the Batsheva Dance Ensemble, OtherDance Festival, IntimaDance Festival, and Dance Arena festival, to name a few. Her piece ‘Park part I” and evening of works titled “On All Fours” was chosen to be part of the repertory of Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv. She was chosen to take part in the inaugural year of the Sugar Salon Residency in New York, where she created alongside Bessies Award Winner Susan Marshall. The resulting work, titled “Pixels on the Rocks” awarded her the 2nd prize at the A.W.A.R.D Show in NY’s Joyce Soho. Most recently Ruttenberg created NABA – Dance with Audio Guides. She continues to create choreography for various theater productions throughout Israel, and participate in festivals and competitions in Israel and abroad. She teaches and gives workshops regularly. Ruttenberg was recently chosen as one of “The Future Generation” women by The Marker W Magazine. This year took her to South Africa’s Dance Umbrella and Senegal’s Ecole Des Sables. She is looking forward to see where tomorrow will lead.
to see Dana talking about her work and her inspirations on the Leadel website, please click here
visit Dana Ruttenberg Dance Group’s website at: www.drdg.co.il

Class Description
The class presents pre-set exercises, emphasizing: alignment, mobility, dynamics and coordination, while employing imagery as a tool for expressive and aware movement, and as a way to escape habits and acquire new points of reference to familiar and new materials. It opens the pathways to new sensations and the pleasure of moving through musicality and groove, expansion of familiar limits and limitations, vigorous doing-and-sensing, and fun. The class ends with phrases from Dana Ruttenberg’s repertoire.