Smadar Goshen is an Israeli choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Stuttgart since
2019. A graduate of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, she is also certified in
Gaga, Gyrotonic, and Gyrokinesis, with a strong focus on individual movement language and
physical detail.
Her choreographic work has been presented internationally at festivals and venues such as
Suzanne Dellal Centre (Tel Aviv), Machol Shalem Festival (Jerusalem), and DANCE WAVES
(Cyprus). Since 2020, she has been creating and producing in Germany, with works including Peninsula-Flora, Hoomans, Grand Noir, Ken, and Body that Stands. She also choreographed Kamma for Gauthier Dance’s Dying Swans Project.
Smadar’s creations blend theatricality with deeply sensitive physical expression, often
placing the audience close to the performers and exploring the balance between
individuality and social belonging. Named one of tanz magazine’s “10 most promising dance
pioneers” in 2023, she is currently part of the Réseau GRAND LUXE residency programme and receives multi-year support from the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-
Württemberg.
Bar Gonen was born in 1994 in Tel Aviv. Began her professional career as a contemporary
dancer in 2015 in Israel, working with choreographers Sharon Vazanna and Maya Brinner. At
the same time, she studied the Ilan Lev Method (ILM) - a form of bodywork and movement
therapy.
In 2019 she graduated from Performact (Torres Vedras, Portugal). Since then, Bar has been
working as a freelance dancer based in Germany, collaborating with choreographers and
theaters such as Smadar Goshen, Berliner Ensemble (with choreographer Ted Stoffer), Eva
Baumann, Joachim Schloemer, Maura Morales, Cutty Shells and Felix Ruckert, among
others.
In 2022 she co-created the duet “Acoustic Resonance” with circus artist Crispin Bade, which
premiered at the CircusDanceFestival in Cologne. In 2023 she created her solo “Elusive
Matter” which was presented in different formats in Stuttgart, and in 2025 the solo "Thinner
Skin" performed by Seung Hwan Lee as part of Solo Choreo in Stuttgart.
Cordelia Eleonore Lange graduated from Codarts Rotterdam in 2008. She worked as a freelance dancer in
Germany and the Netherlands, touring internationally with Gabriella Maiorino and Felix
Landerer. She later joined Stadttheater Bielefeld and Staatstheater Oldenburg, collaborating
with choreographers such as Gregor Zöllig, Guy Weizman & Roni Haver, Omar Rajeh, Iztok
Kovač, Roberto Galvan, Ann Van den Broek, and Sharon Eyal. From 2013 to 2017, she was a member of the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, performing worldwide and
co-creating four original works. She also studied fashion design at Shenkar College.
Now based in Berlin, she works as a freelance dancer and costume designer for artists like
Nir de Volff, Ricardo Ambrozio, Chris Jäger, Constanza Macras, Helena Waldmann, Julia B.
Laperrière, and Smadar Goshen. In addition, she creates independent works and is a
certified therapist of the Ilan Lev Method.
Zuki RingArt is a medium-fluid artist coming from dance and performance. Born in Haifa in 1991.
Holder of the ‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’ scholarship. Currently based in Berlin.
He received his dance training at MASPA (2013–15, Ga’aton) and VIDP (2015–16,
Jerusalem), and later completed the B.A. program ‘Dance, Context, Choreography’ at HZT –
UDK Berlin (2019–22). Since 2015, Zuki has collaborated as a performer with various artists
and choreographers, including Narges Kalhor, Moritz Majce, Anne-Lie Andre, Smadar
Goshen, Iris Erez, Shlomit Fundaminsky, Uri Shafir, Anat Shamgar, Hila Ben-Ari, Anat
Dreamer, and others. In 2020, he began working as a dramaturg, collaborating with Johanna
Ryynänen on VIOLETTA, in analog (2025); with Or Askenazi on Moon (2023), And so, I have a relationship with the sun (2020); and with Rotem Weissman on AGADA (2022).
Zuki’s first work, present | tense (2018), premiered at the From Jaffa to Agripas dance
festival in Jerusalem and was later presented on other stages in Israel. His second
work, Evening (2019), co-created with Carmel Ben-Asher, premiered at
the Intimadance festival in Tel Aviv and was supported by a residency at Yasmeen Godder’s
studio.
Since relocating to Berlin in 2019, Zuki has continued to develop his artistic practice
as a creator, dramaturg, and performer—both in his own work and in collaboration with
others.
