I am a performance artist, choreographer, improviser and educator. Born in Pittsburgh, PA I moved to Israel at the age of two. I earned my BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv 2009, and a Masters in Dance and Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College New York 2014. Throughout I participated in different workshops and courses around dance, Improvisation and other somatics fields as well as taken university courses in psychology and creative therapies. Over the last few years I have been working with Parkinson's patients and elderly. My teaching focuses on dance as an individual pathway to freedom, self expression, strength and joy.

@mormendel
morinika@gmail.com

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And on a personal note.

How does one begin describing/sharing oneself? What do I choose to tell you about me This is not a list of actions or credentials, rather a continuance and curvy line called life:

Curls

Dance

Mountains and a fig tree

Imagination

Things that matter (like meaningful friendships)

As a young girl, I used to ride long waves of unfiltered imagination as well as long walks along the mountains. Not too far from my home there was a rock I called the wishing rock. Over locking the valley, I would stand on it to shout my dreams. Today there is a house where this rock lived. And still that feeling of vast open landscape that listens to my hopes and the gentle light that touches me when I believe in something, exists somewhere in me.

I believe in dance.

I believe in love.

I believe in you.