Mor Mendel
Mor Mendel is a performance artist, choreographer, dance improviser, and educator, whose work explores who we are in our everyday life and movement that plays with imagination, intuition, and personal stories. For Mor, dance is the playground of poetry, memories, relationships, music, and shared existence. Mendel’s teaching focuses on dance as a mode of creativity and joy, and an individual pathway to freedom inside one’s body. Mendel earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv as well as her Improvisation Mastery with dancer Ilanit Tadmor. In 2012, Mendel completed her Master’s in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Over the years she has participated in numerous workshops and courses around dance, improvisation, and other somatic fields as well as university courses in psychology and creative therapies. In particular, Mendel has worked with Parkinson patients around personal liberation through movement.
Mendel’s work has been performed at Tel Aviv galleries, Acco of Alternative Israeli Theater, Gowanus Arts Center, the 14th Street Y, Fridman Gallery, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, BAAD!, BAX, Movement Research Judson Church, Pioneer Works, Collezione Maramotti (Italy), BigParadise, MOtiVE, Center for Performance Research, and in collaboration with artist Miriam Simun at The New Museum (NY). Mendel is a mother of two curly boys.
