Metamorphosis - Amos Hetz

Dancers and collaborators: Renate Grazioadei (Germany), Anat Shamgar, Tami Lebovits

“Metamorphosis”is a piece for three dancers who interpret a graphic score I composed. The score is in four parts, each containing eight images. Its source is my drawing diaries, a routine I keep every day. The drawings reflect my inner processes of changes that emerge from my imagination, a world without borders.

In July 2015 this graphic score was performed in Berlin by three musicians from the new-music ensemble Ensemble Xenon.

Amos Hetz is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. In 1970, he established the dance ensemble Tnu’ot. In 1989, he started the Room Dances Festival, which fosters chamber dance. Founded the Department of Movement and Movement Notation at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and headed it until his retirement in 2002. Teaches various aspects of movement and Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation. Performed at various festivals in Israel and abroad. In 1999, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and in 2013, he received the Mifal HaPayis Award for lifetime achievement in dance.

Renate Graziadei was born in Austria and began her dance training in Switzerland, later moving to New York, where she most notably danced in the Nina Wiener Dance Company. Returning to Europe, she worked with Rui Horta and later danced in COAX. In 1994, she and Arthur Stäldi founded the LaborGras dance collective in Berlin. Renate has been an active dancer, choreographer and teacher in Germany and in many other countries. She has been long collaborating with David Hernandez. Her diverse and rich artistic work has won many distinctive awards.

Anat Shamgar explores dance as a multi-level form of collaboration and communication; engaged in the adventure of simultaneity and interaction between fixed plans and real time composition.

Tami Lebovits is a choreographer, performer, teacher and costume designer. Since 2006 Tami is presenting her works on stages and in festivals such as: Curtain Up, Intimadance, Operation 2#, L1danceFest, Diver, New Dance. Machol Shalem, Room Dances Festival, Video Dance Festival, Love Art Make Art.Graduate of The School of Visual Theatre. Graduate of KelimCenter for Choreography conducted by Anat Danieli. Holds a BA in Dance Education from Seminar Hakibbutzim College. Collaborates with artists Iris Erez, Guy Gutman, Amos Hetz, Anat Danieli, Gunilla Heilborn.