Yael Karavan is an Israeli-British performer, dancer and stage director. She has traveled across Europe, Russia, Brazil, and Japan, studying and working with various masters to develop an authentic training method and a contemporary physical language that connects the East to the West, theater and dance. Using elements from butoh, dance, mime, and physical and visual theater, the artist explores the themes of metamorphosis, the invisible, and repeating cycles, intertwining oneiric spaces with humorous moments, balancing on the tightrope between the tragic and the comic, the intimate and the collective. She is in activity since 1999, performing in theaters and festivals, as well as in galleries and museums, and developing a site-specific and -responsive stage work across the world. She has been a member of the Russian physical theater company Derevo, Tadashi Endo's Mamu Dance Theatre, and Yumiko Yoshioka's Ten Pen Chii, among others. She teaches butoh around the world, at Forum Dança, and at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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© Raúl Bartolomé
