ABOUT

 
 
 

 

 

Rotem Weissman is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between the body and the stories it carries — both as a personal experience and as something shaped through collaboration, interaction, and shared imagination.
Her choreographic language is characterized by precise coordination, joint isolation, and a dynamic balance between tension and release. She approaches the body as an instrument that can extend beyond its physical limits and open new possibilities for expression. Her work often focuses on transmitting an experience rather than presenting a fixed narrative. Through this approach, she explores states of non-performance, deconstructs theatrical structures, and responds to the atmosphere and architecture of the performance space. Rather than presenting bodies that perform, her work reveals bodies in the process of being and doing — physically and mentally.

Rotem graduated from the Dance Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2015) and the Maslool Professional Dance Program (2017). She holds a postgraduate diploma in choreography from the International Choreographic Exchange at SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (2018), where she also completed the Artist-in-Residence program (2019). Her artistic development has been supported through residencies at Studio Alta (CZ), Tanz Station (DE), and Cie La Baraka (FR). Her choreographic research Alpha & Omega was supported by NEUSTART KULTUR #TakeHeart (Fonds Darstellende Künste) and the flausen+ bundesnetzwerk residency at Schloss Bröllin.

Her works include:
BAUHAUS (2018), awarded at the Machol Shalem Dance House – Jerusalem International Choreography Competition (2019, IL), and later presented at PerformanceTag Festival (2019, AU) and Stoff Fringe Festival (2021, SE).
Yellow Poetry (2019), presented at Jerusalem International Dance Week (2019, IL), Studio Bank (2020, IL), and AltoFest (2021, IT).
AGADA (2022), presented at Acker Stadt Palast (DE), Dock 11 (DE), and Habait Theatre (IL).
Prisma (2023), a work for young audiences produced by Explore Dance, premiered in Munich. It has since toured to K3 Hamburg, Fabrik Potsdam, Explore Dance Festival (Potsdam), Think Big Festival (Munich), Purple Festival (Berlin), Krokusfestival (Hasselt, BE), Young Dance Festival (Zug, CH), Mousonturm Frankfurt, and Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT).
The work will also be part of the Playground Tour, produced and toured by The Place (London), and developed with the support of the Goethe-Institut London.

Her current project, Preserve – Call for Attention, is created in collaboration with movement artist Susanna Yilkoski, composer Roi Becker, and dramaturge Maya Weinberg. The project is supported by the Residenzförderung 2025 of Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with flausen+ and Schloss Bröllin, and will premiere in September 2026 at Dock 11, Berlin.