Alice Dor-Cohen was born in 1952 in Israel.
she studied ballet in Haifa with Erella Hayam’s, a student of Valentina Arkhipova Grossman. She served in the IDF in the Armored Corps Band. In 1972-73 she travelled abroad with the representative dance company From Israel with Love. In 1973-74, she studied plastic art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and moved on to study at the Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy, where she graduated in 1978.
In 1979, she danced with the Jerusalem Ensemble Dance Company, and in 1980 she joined Batsheva Dance Company.
Between 1980 and 1989, Dor-Cohen danced in Portrait for Two (1979); Shadows of Blues, Hamsa, Testimony (1981); Between Two Worlds (1982); A Dream in Doubt, The Lost (1983); Hevzek – “Vikuach”, Square Button (1986); Tabula Rasa (1987). In 1983 she began choreographing for Batsheva dances, including This Sky, This Land and A Dream in Doubt (1983), The First Day in the Rest of My Life (1984), Neighbors (1986). She left Batsheva in 1989.
In 1984, together with her partner at the time, painter Eli Dor-Cohen, she established the Pyramid Theater which was active until 1987. She also choreographed for the Jerusalem Dance Company and various performances in the Acre Theater Festival, Israeli Opera and other theaters and venues.
In the course of her career, Dor-Cohen won many awards, including first prize at the Gertrud Kraus Choreography Competition (1983, 1987), Best Play Award at the Acre Theater Festival (1985) and the Yair Shapira Award (1986). She was a member of the Dance Department of the Culture and Art Council as well as a judge in its Outstanding Dancer Competition. She teachers dance and choreography, as well as workshops in schools and other institutes.