Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in New York City. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed.
For her choreographic work, Netta has been awarded a USA Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance at Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Van Cleef & Arpels / Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowships, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project Grant, LMCC’s Extended Life program, Six Points Fellowship, Cultural Leadership Fellowship from Mandel Institute, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Her work has been commissioned and presented by venues such as PEAK Performances, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Wexner Center for the Arts, La Mama, River to River Festival, Center for the Arts/Buffalo, International Dance (Jerusalem), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, ‘62 Center for the Arts/Williamstown, ODC & Bridge Project, Harkness Dance Festival, International Solo Festival (Stuttgart), and Roulette.
Her work has been supported by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, UCROSS Foundation/UCLA, Watermill Center, MANCC, National Center for Choreography/Akron, Dance Initiative, Djerassi Arts Program, The Yard, Jacob's Pillow Lab, Miami Light Project, Movement Research, Gibney’s DiP, Trinity College.
Netta works across genres and disciplines: she contributed to artist Josiah McElheny’s Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, choreographed a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, worked with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Julia Wolfe on Spinning, and collaborated on evenings of theory and performance at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin).
As a guest artist and visiting faculty, Netta has created work with repertory companies and students nationwide at the University of the Arts, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Oklahoma, Rutgers University, Marymount Manhattan, University of Utah, Princeton University, Zenon Dance Company, Drexel University, American Dance Festival, Alvin Ailey School/Fordham, SUNY Brockport, University of Texas at Austin, James Madison University, Long Island University, UNC Charlotte, Roger Williams University, Sarah Lawrence College.
As a performer, Netta has worked with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers, Joanna Kotze, Karinne Keithley, Nancy Bannon, Mark Jarecki, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Netta grew up in Galilee, Israel. She received a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
PHOTOGRAPH: Jeremy Jacob / Daniel Rampulla