Guy Weizman
Guy Weizman (1973 ) ) is an Israel choreographer and director. Together with his partner Roni Haver, he is artistic director of the dance company Club Guy & Roni in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Since January 2017 Guy Weizman also is the artistic and general director of the Dutch theatre company Noord Nederlands Toneel in Groningen. Julie van den Berghe is the artistic leader of the Noord Nederlands Toneel.
Dance career
Guy Weizman began his career as a dancer with the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. In 2002, after dancing with companies in Berlin, Barcelona and Galili Dance in the Netherlands, he started his own international dance company with Roni Haver in Groningen (NL).
Club Guy & Roni performs innovative contemporary dance pieces in collaboration with other disciplines such as theatre, literature, film and visual arts.
From January 1, 2017, Weizman serves as artistic and general director of the Noord Nederlands Toneel. [1]
Choreography / Direction
- 2017 Carrousel, coproduction NNT, Club Guy & Roni, Asko|Schönbergs K[h]AOS
- 2016 Happiness, coproduction with Slagwerk Den Haag
- 2015 Phobia, coproduction with EN-KNAP (SI) and Slagwerk Den Haag
- 2015 Sparks, Festival Classique, was broadcast live on Dutch national television. In cooperation with The Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest)
- 2015 Mechanical Ecstasy, with musicians of Slagwerk Den Haag, music composition by Jan-Bas Bollen and Thijs de Vlieger (NOISIA).
- 2014 My Private Odyssey, coproduction with tanzmainz / Staatstheater Mainz (DE) and musicians Tomoko Mukaiyama, Monica Germino and Anne La Berge. Music composition David Dramm and Tomoko Mukaiyama.
- 2014 Gift for Infinity (RUG), performance 400 year anniversary of the Groningen University with Noord Nederlands Orkest, WERC video collective and media artist Jan Klug.
- 2013 Naked Lunch, coproduction with the musicians of Slagwerk Den Haag and vocalists of Silbersee. Music composition Yannis Kyriakides. Text by Oscar van Woensel.
- 2013 CRASH, coproduction with NNT
- 2013 L’Histoire du Soldat, with musicians of Lunapark
- 2012 Midnight Rising, with the Israeli singer-songwriter Ehud Banai
- 2011 Miraculous Wednesday, coproduction with State Theater Oldenburg (DE)
- 2010 Alpha Boys
- 2010 Four Walls
- 2010 FKK
- 2009 Heelhuids & Halsoverkop, coproduction with NNT
- 2009 Desert Highway
- 2009 Pinball and Grace
- 2008 Poetic Disasters
- 2007 Myrrh and Cinnamon
- 2005 Language of Walls
Guest choreographer / director
- 2015 Noord Nederlands Toneel (NL) - De Twaalf Gezworenen
- 2014 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Finale Grande
- 2014 Theatre Ballet Moscow (RU) - OpArt
- 2013 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Romeo et Juliette
- 2013 The Göteborg Opera (SE) – Mama I’m Coming Home
- 2011 Tsekh Contemporary Dance Centre, Moscow (RU) - L'Histoire du Soldat
- 2010 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Air Ways
- 2009 Carte Blanche, Bergen (NO) – When Clarity Visits
- 2009 Schauspiel Kölln (DE) - 60 Years
- 2007 Scapino Ballet (NL) – Bowler’s Heaven
- 2002 Ballet du Nord (FR) – Silence pas de Silence
- 1999 Galili Dance (NL) – In Remains