Iyar Elezra

Iyar Elezra (Israel) was born in Israel in 1987. She studied at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, and joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2005 and the Batsheva Dance Company in 2008. In 2016, Elezra left Batsheva Dance Company and Israel for Berlin, where she lived for two years, during which she created, taught, and danced. Elezra has worked with various creators and choreographers, including Yasmin Goder, Sharon Eyal, Roi Assaf, Sasha Waltz, Michal Helfman, and Jason Danino Holt, and taught works by Ohad Naharin in various locations around the world. In collaboration with the musician and dancer Assaf Salhov, Elezra created the March of the Broken Fairies, which was performed as part of the Curtain Up Project, and together with the artist Adam El-Ezra, she created Counting to 3 at the Alfred Tel Aviv Gallery and The Wonder Girls as part of the Hatem Theater’s incubator program. Elezra returned to Batsheva Dance Company in 2023.