Nitsan Margaliot ist ein israelischer Choreograph, Tänzer und Kurator mit Sitz in Berlin, der als Künstler mit queeren Archiven, Märchen und unmöglichen Begegnungen jongliert.
Er tanzte im Batsheva Ensemble und in der Vertigo Dance Company und hat mit Choreographen wie Maud Le Pladec, Kat Válastur, Moritz Majce und Anne Collod gearbeitet.
Nitsan besitzt einen Master of Fine Arts von der University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Seine Arbeiten wurden auf Kunst-Events in Deutschland, Schweden, Ungarn, Israel und den USA präsentiert.
A visit, duet with Mari Sawada as part of LOVE:15 evening by Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, premiered at Radialsystem, 2022
This Gentle Moment, choreo-film, premiered at the English Theatre Berlin with the support of NPN Stepping Out, 2021-22
today yes? NOTTTT, a piece with a group of teenage dance students as part of Routine 2.0, Israel Festival. Co-creation with Laura Kirshenbaum, 2021
Imagining Otherwise, 12 hour event, a collaboration with Esther Siddiquie currently ‘Always Otherwise’ (Siddiquie and Margaliot). Supported by Interkultur Ruhr, Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) und Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW (MKW), took place at atelier automatique, Bochum, 2020
r e t u r n i n g, in collaboration with the cellist Steuart Pincombe. Premiered at Frankfurt LAB, commissioned by Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in cooperation with the Jewish Community Frankfurt am Main; presented in 2021 as part of soundance festival at DOCK11, Berlin, 2019
Co-curating and co-initiating the study group and symposium “Moving Margins Symposium, dance archives in practice through distance and absence”. In collaboration of Internationales Theaterinstitut / Zentrum Bundesrepublik Deutschland and NPN Stepping Out, 2021 ︎
Jumping High – Guided Joy for Stiff Days, indoor party as part of the People to People Playground Festival 2021, organized and hosted by the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation, 2021
Best Dancer award, SoloDuo NRW International festival, Germany, 2020
DIS-TANZ-SOLO, Research stipend for the projects “Solo is a Question” and “Drawing Scores Anew“ by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, 2020-22
The University of the Arts President’s Fund for Excellence, BGU/Philadelphia Academic Bridge Fund, Szloma-Albam-Stiftung and the Norbert Janssen Stiftung, 2018-20
Gertrude Kraus Foundation Scholarship, 2009