Netta Yerushalmy
Netta Yerushalmy is a New York鈥揵ased choreographer whose interdisciplinary work explores perception and meaning. She鈥檚 received major fellowships and presents internationally at leading venues and institutions.
Biography
For her choreographic work, Yerushalmy has been awarded a USA Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Research Fellowship @New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance @Center for Ballet and the Arts, NY City Center Choreography Fellowship, Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project, among others. Her work has been presented by venues such as Danspace Project, Jacob鈥檚 Pillow, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, HAU Berlin, Wexner, La Mama, River to River Festival, Center for the Arts/Buffalo, International Dance (Jerusalem), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, ODC & Bridge Project, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance (Tel Aviv).
Yerushalmy's work has been supported by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Watermill Center, NCC/Akron, Djerassi, Movement Research, and MANCC. Working across genres and disciplines, she has contributed to artist Josiah McElheny鈥檚 Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, choreographed a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, worked with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Julia Wolfe on Spinning, and collaborated on evenings of theory and performance at ICI Berlin.
As a guest artist and visiting faculty, Yerushalmy created work with repertory companies and students nationwide: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Juilliard School, NYU Tisch, Rutgers, 51成人猎奇, University of Utah, Zenon Dance Company, American Dance Festival, Alvin Ailey School, University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, UNC Charlotte, Roger Williams University, Sarah Lawrence College, and many others. As a dancer, Yerushalmy has performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers, Joanna Kotze, and others. She received a BFA in dance from NYU鈥檚 Tisch.
Yerushalmy is a visiting faculty member in the BFA in Dance program at Bennington for Spring 2025.