Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter is a choreographer, television director, musician, actor, composer, dancer and film director.

At the age of fifteen, he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance before joining the Batsheva Dance Company, directed by Ohad Naharin, three years later.

He danced with Wim Vandekeybus, Paul Selwyn-Norton, Tero Saarinen and Inbal Pinto before moving to London in 2002, where he became an artist-in-residence at The Place in 2004. As well as his work as a choreographer, he composes and performs the rhythmic scores for his shows, drawing on his experience of drumming and percussion, which he studied in Paris.

In 2008, he founded his own company in London.