Joseph Tmim

Yossi Tamim was born in 1957 in Beersheba.

He moved to Tel Aviv in 1980 and joined Batsheva.

He danced with the original team of the following works: Testimony, Pas de Pepsi (1981); Ocean Sounds, Between Two Worlds (1982) This Sky, This Land, A Dream in Doubt, The Lost (1983). In those years he also choreographed for Batsheva: Transformation (1982) and In the Café – The Cold of Fall (1983), in which he also danced.

In 1985 Tamim left Batsheva and moved to Germany, where he danced in the Reinhild Hoffmann Dance Theater, first in Bremen and then in Bochum. In 1987 he moved to Berlin and joined Dance-Berlin, first as a dancer and later, in 1988-93, as a co-manager. During this time he choreographed Plumaktus (1992) for the company. In 1993, Tamim founded the Tolada which was active until 1998 and staged his choreographies in Germany and other European countries. These include Babylon’s Vanity (1994) and Vanities III (1996). At the same time, he started working as a lecturer on modern dance at Leipzig University.
In the late 1990s Tamim returned to Israel to become Muza Dance Company’s resident choreographer and created the following dancers for it: Contemplations over Ruins (2002), Hungry Eyes (2005), Footsteps (2005). In addition, he also created Illusory Landscapes for Inbal Dance Theater(2010).
Throughout the years, Tamim was a ballet teacher in numerous venues, including Thelma Yellin High School and Bikurei Haitim Dance Center in Tel Aviv, Kolben Dance School in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy. Tamim is invited to teach master classes worldwide, especially in Germany, both as a lecturer and as a ballet teacher.