ABOUT

 

 

 

 

Rotem Weissman is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin, Germany. Her artistic practice is rooted in an ongoing investigation of the body and its narratives– both as an intimate, personal pursuit and as a collaborative act shaped through interaction, reaction, mysticism, femininity, interpretation, and shared imagination.

Weissman has cultivated a distinctive choreographic language marked by meticulous coordination, joint isolation, and a finely tuned equilibrium between tension and release. She conceives of the body as an instrument–one that, when guided with precision, can transcend its physical boundaries and reveal new expressive dimensions. Central to her approach is the transmission of lived experience: Her work focuses on creating states of non-performance, breaking down conceptual ideas, and responding to the atmosphere and architecture of the performance space. She aims to show the body in its process of being and doing– both physically and mentally– rather than as something to be performed.

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Weissman 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 further supported through residencies at Studio Alta (CZ), Sadnaot Habama (IL), Tanz Station (DE), and Cie La Baraka (FR). Her choreographic research Alpha & Omega was funded by NEUSTART KULTUR #TakeHeart (Fonds Darstellende Künste) and the flausen+ bundesnetzwerk residency at Schloss Bröllin.

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Her works includes:

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), performed at Jerusalem International Dance Week (2019, IL), Studio Bank (2020, IL), and AltoFest (2021, IT).

AGADA (2022), presented at Acker Stadt Palast (2022, DE), Dock 11 (2022, DE), and Habait Theatre (2022, IL).

Prisma (2023), a work for young audiences produced by Explore Dance, premiered in Munich and has since toured to K3 Hamburg, Fabrik Potsdam, explore dance festival (Potsdam, DE), Think Big Festival (Munich, DE), Purple Festival (Berlin, DE), Krokusfestival (Hasselt, BE), Young Dance Festival (Zug, CH), among others.

Her current project, Preserve – Call for Attention, is a collaboration with movement artist Susanna Yilkoski, composer Roi Becker, and dramaturge Maya Weinberg. It is supported by Residenzförderung 2025 des Fonds Darstellende Künste in cooperation with flausen+ and Schloss Bröllin.