Maya Popova, Born in Russia, started learning dance in a professional Russian ballet school.Graduate of St. Petersburg state Rimsky Korsakov conservatory as a choreographer.
Participant of many dance courses in Bat-sheva dance company and Netherlands dance theater, studied modern and contemporary dance from teachers from all over the world.
Worked as a solo dancer at the St.Petersburg Yacobson dance theater, St.Petersburg state conservatory dance theater and Moscow ballet theater.
Took part in contemporary dance projects with different choreographers.
started creating as a child, maded a dance evening for the singer Judy Bechar on the Tel Aviv university stage, in march 2017: "Babylon", "Mimes" 2014" "Desert night" 2015.
Now working as an artist and solo dancer in Jerusalem dance theater and in other contemporary dance projects with different choreographers, creating her own dance project, teaching and being mother.
"Aunt exemplary and slim, with avernal eyes,
we wonder what slow changes they see
under their vast, shady, turned down brim."
(Elizabeth Bishop)
The work “Not a couple?" was created in 2017 and was a long process of understanding the whole picture and why the idea was there in the first place. Now that the pieces of the puzzle have come together, the audience can see the complete concept of how a relationship evolves and changes the people within it.
Choreography: Maya Popova | Dancers: Nimrod Poles, Maya Popova
Rehearsal manager: Oxana Bornshtein | Music: Giovanny Sollima, Shpongle
Nimrod Poles
Born in Tel-Aviv, Graduate of the Aleph High School of Arts' dance department. Nimrod performed with The "Maslool" in Beijing, China the pieces "Les Noces" by Angelin Preljocaj and "Harry" by Barak Marshall and further assisted the art director of "Maslool", Noemi Perlov, with the re-staging of "La Stravaganza" by Angelin Preljocaj at the Ballet Preljocaj, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Nimrod was an apprentice with Batsheva - The Young Ensemble, directed by Ohad Naharin (2013/2014 season), performing in Israel and abroad. From March 2015 to December 2016, Nimrod was a full-time dancer of the Sharon Vazanna Dance Group. He joined Habemus Corpus Dance Company in May 2017.
DANCE LESSONS
Tuesday - 18:45 - Contemporary Dance
Wednesday - 18:45 - Improvisation
Dereh Beit Lehem 81, 2 floor, jerusalem.
(place of stephanos dance project)
