David Dvir was born in 1949 in Kibbutz Nahsholim.
Dvir studied in the Nitzanim Youth Village and Zionist Youth Farm in Jerusalem, as well as the Physical Education College in Beersheba. In 1972, after his military service as a platoon commander and physical training officer in the Paratroopers Brigade, he began studying in the Bat-Dor Studio, and throughout the first half of the 1970s he performed as a dancer in the Israeli Ballet Company and in Bat-Dor. He also performed in the films Jesus Christ Superstar and Kazablan.
He joined Batsheva in 1976, and danced with the company until 1989, with leading roles in many works, including Voices (1977); Stravinsky Dance Circus, Daughters of Shiloh, Wilderness, Swamps & Forest (1979); Ties, Rhapsody, Nymphaeas (1980); An Ancient, Tale In Common (1981); The Foreigner, Transformation (1982); Inostress, My Sole… and Head (1983); Heavenly Choirs, Square Button (1986).
In 1982 he was appointed as the company’s artistic director, and served in that capacity until 1989. During those years, Dvir maintained a balance between Israeli choreographers and choreographers commissioned from abroad. The Israeli choreographers who worked with the company included Siki Kol, Tamar Ben Ami, Haim Ohn, Alice Dor Cohen, Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal, Amir Kolben, and Ohad Naharin. Choreographers commissioned from abroad included Robert North, Daniel Ezralow, Robert Cohan, Doug Varone, and David Parsons. Dvir also initiated the “Thursdays in Batsheva”, which offered dance samples with explanations designed to bring the public closer to the art of dance, as well as the “Day of Dance” for schoolchildren.
In 1989, Dvir was appointed coordinator of the dance program in the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, a position he holds to this day. In addition, he creates dance programs for high school students. Dvir was a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality’s Arts Council. In 1993, he was the artistic director of the Curtain Up (Haramat Masach) annual festival of dance premiers. In 2005-2007 he was a referee in the three seasons of the Born to Dance reality show on Channel 2.
Dvir won the Yair Shapira Dance Award (1980), the Kinor David Award (1981) and the Cylinder Award of Omanut Laam (NGO to promote art in Israel geographic periphery) (1989).
Repertoire
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In the Garden
Peter Pucci
1989 -
Diluvium
Doug Varone
1989 -
Voix Bulgare
Doug Varone
1989 -
Romantica
Liat Dror & Nir Ben Gal
1989 -
Mariachi
Peter Pucci
1989 -
Rituals
Robert North
1988 -
Psyco Killer
ISO Dance: Jamey Hampton, Daniel Ezralow, Ashley Roland, Morleigh Steinberg
1988 -
Eight Heads
Daniel Ezralow
1988 - Load More
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Taken to Pieces
Doug Varone
1988 -
Cantata 78 Every Waking Hour
Doug Varone
1988 -
Linton
David Parsons
1987 -
Walkman Variations
Ze'eva Cohen
1987 -
Walk This Way
David Parsons
1987 -
Tabula Rasa
Ohad Naharin
1987 -
View
Rami Be'er
1987 -
Misleading Moments
Nir Ben Gal
1987 -
The Great Pretender
Daniel Ezralow
1987 -
Lelio
Gene Hill Sagan
1987 -
Whip To A Jelly
Robert North
1986 -
Entre Dos Aguas
Robert North
1986 -
Story in Five Chapters
Siki Kol
1986 -
Dream Different
Shai Gottesman
1986 -
The Envelope
David Parsons
1986 -
Inner Rhythm
David Parsons
1986 -
"…Ve’esha Gam"
Miri Harouvi
1986 -
Hevzek – "Hamakshiv"
Siki Kol
1986 -
Hevzek – "Vikuach"
Siki Kol
1986 -
"Hekerut"
Haim Ohn
1986 -
Square Button
Tamar Ben Ami
1986 -
Neighbors
Alice Dor Cohen
1986 -
Heavenly Choirs
Nira Triffon
1986 -
Formless
Nir Ben Gal
1986 -
Svsplkt
Daniel Ezralow
1985 -
Quiet City
Janet Smith
1985 -
Three Latin-American Sketches & Hoedown
Robert North
1985 -
Danzon Cubano
Robert Cohan
1985 -
Looking for Jerusalem
Donald McKayle
1985 -
Marble Halls
Mark Morris
1985 -
Brandenburg Dance No. 4
Siki Kol
1985 -
Chaconne
Robert Cohan
1985 -
Canonic 3 4 Studies
Mark Morris
1985 -
Suite en bleu
Gene Hill Sagan
1985 -
Allegro Barbaro
Siki Kol
1984 -
The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Alice Dor Cohen
1984 -
Dogfish
Daniel Ezralow
1984 -
Brothers
Daniel Ezralow
1984 -
Death and the Maiden
Robert North
1984 -
Esplanade
Paul Taylor
1984 -
Escapades
Alvin Ailey
1984 -
A Catch
Siki Kol
1984 -
Bolero
Igal Perry
1983 -
My Sole… And Head
Tamar Ben Ami
1983 -
Clowns & Other Fools
Lotte Goslar
1983 -
Common Prayer
Robert Cohan
1983 -
A Dream in Doubt
Alice Dor Cohen
1983 -
Touches
Haim Ohn
1983 -
In the Café – The Cold of Fall
Joseph Tmim
1983 -
Night Grief
Siki Kol
1983 -
Dance
Iris Frenkel
1983 -
The Lost
Paul Bloom
1983 -
Inostress
Ohad Naharin
1983 -
This sky, This Land
Alice Dor Cohen
1983 -
Island
Ze'eva Cohen
1983 -
Vigil in Jerusalem
Naomi Aleskovski
1983 -
Grimaces
Ivan Feller Vaslev
1983 -
Sigh
Gene Hill Sagan
1983 -
Troy Games
Robert North
1983 -
Autumn
Igal Perry
1983 -
Diary
Robert Cohan
1982 -
Les Noces
Anna Sokolow
1982 -
Pulcinella
Murray Louis
1982 -
Turmoil
Siki Kol
1982 -
The Foreigner
Victoria Green
1982 -
Transformation
Joseph Tmim
1982 -
In Common
Ohad Naharin
1981 -
An Ancient Tale
Lea Avraham
1981 -
Nympheas
Robert Cohan
1980 -
Ties
Siki Kol
1980 -
Rhapsody
David Hatch Walker
1980 -
Stravinsky Dance Circus
Paul Sanasardo & Members of the Company
1979 -
Daughters of Shiloh
Rahamim Ron
1979 -
Wilderness Swamps & Forest
Ze'eva Cohen
1979 -
Voices
Christopher Bruce
1977
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Shula Botney, Liat Steiner, Shelley Sheer, Jay Augen, Haim Ohn, David Dvir, Tami Vinig Lotan, Alice Dor Cohen, Ido Tadmor, Orit Kenan | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shelley Sheer, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shelley Sheer, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shelley Sheer, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shelley Sheer, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Shelley Sheer | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Richard Orbach, Haim Ohn, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Richard Orbach, Haim Ohn | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Graciela Kozak, Natan Gardah, David Dvir, Nira Triffon, Haim Ohn | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Haim Ohn, David Dvir, Bruno De | Saint Chaffray (in the air), Shai Gottesman & Erez Lotan (floor), Jay Augen, Natan Gardah - Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Natan Gardah, Shai Gottesman, Shelley Sheer, Graciela Kozak, Liat Steiner, Haim Ohn, Erez Lotan, Jay Augen, Bruno De | Saint Chaffray - Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shai Gottesman, Graciela Kozak, Liat Steiner, Richard Orbach, Iris Lahad, Shelley Sheer, David Dvir, Alice Dor Cohen, Daniela Slavik, Bruno De | Saint Chaffray, Shula Botney, Haim Ohn, Ofra Doudai - Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Graciela Kozak, Shelley Sheer, Haim Ohn | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Richard Orbach, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Richard Orbach, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Shelley Sheer | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Shelley Sheer and the company | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
In the air: Nira Triffon. Philip Salvatori, Graciela Kozak, David Dvir, Iris Lahad, Richard Orbach, Shula Botney | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Iris Lahad, David Dvir, Nira Triffon, Richard Orbach, Philip Salvatori, Shula Botney, Dorit Osher | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Left: Shai Gottesman, Center: David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
In the air: David Dvir. Shai Gottesman, Haim Ohn, Philip Salvatori, Shula Botney, Natan Gardah | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Richard Orbach, David Dvir, Nira Triffon and Musician: Ofer Shalchin | Photo: Moshe Rosenzweig -
Iris Lahad, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Iris Lahad, Haim Ohn, Natan Gardah, Nira Triffon, Reto Schleiniger, Siru Suutarinen, Shelley Sheen, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Reto Schleiniger, Erez Lotan, Natan Gardah, Haim Ohn, Joseph Tmim, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Nira Triffon, Haim Ohn | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Reto Schleiniger, Siru Suutarinen, Iris Lahad, Haim Ohn, Shelley Sheer, David Dvir, Nira Triffon, Richard Orbach | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Shelley Sheer, David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Shelley Sheer | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir and the company | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
Lea Avraham, David Dvir, Shelley Sheer, Haim Ohn, Orit Kenan, Amir Kolben | Photo: Yoram Rubin -
David Dvir, Nurit Stern | Photo: Mula Eshet -
David Dvir | Photo: Jacob Agor -
David Dvir | Photo: Mula Eshet