Contemporary dancer , choreographer and a dance teacher. Graduated from The Victorian College of The arts, University of Melbourne , Australia. Her training in Melbourne and Sydney influence and inspired by Contemporary and Release technique taught by Rebecca Hilton, Fiona Cameron,Tracie Mitchell, Phillip Adams, Anna Smith, Kim Itoh (Japanese Butō technique),Jane Mortiss ,and Renée Wadleigh (USA). In Sydney She trained the Graham technique with Anca Frankenhauser and Patrick Harding Irmer and inspired her modern dance skills with Legs on the Wall Physical Dance Theatre and The one Extra Dance Company. She trained with Chunky Move Australian contemporary dance company and took part in the rehearsals under the instructor of Gideon Obarzanek who left in her depth impact of discovering movement and why we move in the way we move. In 2000 she won The Hybrid Art Collaboration Award for her first collaboration art work. Among her projects are Mash Rush that appeared at the Melbourne Future Remembrances Festival collaboration movement and live drumming (Tim Kingsley), La Musica (Written by Marguerite Duras) present movement out of written text at Grant Street Theatre (Melbourne) believe observers can get a better chance of enjoy art when it is collaborate with other arts forms.
Liat moved to London and performed in different dance projects. In addition to her work as performer, Liat developed her interest in creating dance film so in 2004 her video dance Blurred Focus (London) was invited to present at the International Moving Image Festival (Greece). At The Robin Howard Dance Theatre she performed with In the town of Sleepy Hollow inspired by Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow (Choreography Melenie Crowe) and MOVE at The Lakeview Dance Theatre by Choreography Betsabeh Omran). She took professional movement development training with Siobhan Davies Dance Company’s teachers such as Sasha Roubicek and Sean Feldman((Ireland). On May 2000 Liat presented a research work in progress work as part of Jerwood Space choreographic research session including observation and conversation.
Her work Suite won the Commission of Arts Grant. In 2008 she premiered Horizon at the Beit Tami Dance Center collaborated with a photographer Alma Shneor and also presented in The Vdance # 3 International Video Dance Festival. Her second video dance True Love was screened at the opening of The Quick Flick World International short film Festival. She performed Blind Date (Choreography Sharon Hoba) and performed as part of Gesher Project a piece by Barak Marshall at The Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre as part of a collaboration project between The International Dance Bridge Choreographic Dialogues and UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance.
Since 2015 Liat moves to Berlin to continued investigating her movement language inspired by different art forms. She took part in different Arts Projects as a Dancer, Performer and Choreographer. Among her Arts projects are HERO MOTHER opening Exhibition ;On The Way -Safety and Luck by Nezaket Ekici, CTM, Adventure of Music and Art by Ma Li, ‘Take Place I ‘Exhibition Interactive Project by the Artistic Director Ming Lu, “BALAGAN; Exhibition Art Festival, play and Why not? by Video Artist Sasha Pirogova which took placed at The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum and The Kühlhaus, ARTE CREATIVE Web series: Translantics directed by Britta Thie, Bewege dich, Bewege andere by Stephan Kurr and Alessio Trevisani and MADA[r]T Charity Project by Michaela Nocker (Austria). Among her inspired teachers in Berlin are Aymeric Mosselmans, Tony Rizziin ,Sonia Rodríguez and Blenard Azizaj. Liat took part in a performing arts work ‘Connecting Fingers‘ directed by Daniela Lucato (Italy),a cultural theater project involved four dancers who explore and interpret real stories into body language. ‘Connecting Fingers‘. Performed in variety of Arts Festivals and locations such as The 2015 Expat Expo, The English Theatre Berlin and The POSSIBLE MEMORIES festival at TATWERK Performance Research, Acker Stadt Palast and Dance Festival di Seconda Mano, Teatro Stabile D Innovazione, Galleria Toledo, Naples. Later on it becomes a feature documentary film call ‘When I dance’. The film receives international awards and takes part in international film festivals. From 2015- 2019 Liat has been co-organizer and fund- raiser for four successful editions of ‘Let Me In‘ Performing arts Festivals which took place in Neukölln, Mitte and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg districts where socio-cultural involved many great artists from all over the world. Between 2016- 2017 Liat worked on a new dance project ‘Engelszeit‘ a Cultural Dialog between dancers by the Italian choreographer Alessio Trevisani that took place on the opening exhibition ‘Look, there is man‘ (‘Seht, da ist der Mensch’) in Kunstmuseum Kloster Magdeburg and at The Katholikentag Festival in The Museum Of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Between 2020- 2021 Liat developed her first video dance research choreography work in Berlin ‘One and a half moon ‘ which about a relationship between two dancers (Haley Fox and Jessica Akers) who are moving in a circular motion and develop a kinetic energy which eventually unites them to become one. Since then Liat is continue to train as a dancer and recently after a long break she came back to the studio to continue research movements.
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Berlin, Germany