Rakefet Levy

Set and costume designer

Rakefet Levy was born in 1958 in Israel.

She graduated from the Ramat Hasharon College for Art Teachers and went on to study fashion design in Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. She started her professional career as a designer for the Neve Tzedek Theater Center in 1984-85, and since then has designed costumes for a wide range of plays, dance performances, operas and other musical productions, films and TV shows, as well as presenting in museum exhibitions worldwide.
Among other things, Levy designed for Hanoch Levin’s plays Those Who Walk in the Darkness, Beheading, and Requiem, as well as for plays by Rina Yerushalmi, Ofira Henig, Yevgeny Arie, Hanan Snir, Yossi Yizraeli and others.
From 1990 till 2008, she designed for most of Ohad Narharin’s choreographies with Batsheva Company and Ensemble. For the company, she designed costumes for Black Milk (1990); Queens of Golub, Arbos (1991); Mabul, Stone Soup (1992); Opening Ceremony, Anaphase, Perpetuum (1993); Zina, Kaamos (1995); Two Short Stories (1997); Quotations 1-9, Moshe (1999); Narharin’s Virus (2001); Mamootot (2003); Three, TELOPHAZA (2005); Project 5 (2008). For the ensemble, she designed costumes for Dance Party (1994), Zachacha (1998), and Plastelina (2001).

In 2004, Levy established the Design School for the Performing Arts in Tel Aviv. She has taught in many institutes, including Shenkar College, School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, Vital Art College in Tel Aviv, Bezalel School of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and the Kalisher Art Academy in Tel Aviv.
Levy won many awards, including the Ophir Award for 1993, 1998 and 2001, and the Israeli Theater Award for 1997 and 2000. In addition, she was a member of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation’s committee and the judge panels in the Suzanne Dellal International Dance Contest.

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  • MAX

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    Ohad Naharin
    2007

  • Telophaza

    Telophaza
    Ohad Naharin
    2006

  • Three

    Three
    Ohad Naharin
    2005

  • Mamootot

    Mamootot
    Ohad Naharin
    2003

  • Plastelina

    Plastelina
    Ohad Naharin
    2001

  • Naharin’s Virus

    Naharin’s Virus
    Ohad Naharin
    2001

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    And when the Rooster Crowed The Green Bride Floated Through The Village Square
    Barak Marshall
    2000

  • DECADANCE

    DECADANCE
    Ohad Naharin
    2000

  • Moshe

    Moshe
    Ohad Naharin
    1999

  • Quatations 1-9

    Quatations 1-9
    Ohad Naharin
    1999

  • ZACHACHA

    ZACHACHA
    Ohad Naharin
    1998

  • Two short stories

    Two short stories
    Ohad Naharin
    1997

  • Sabotage Baby

    Sabotage Baby
    Ohad Naharin
    1997

  • Kaamos

    Kaamos
    Ohad Naharin
    1995

  • Z/na

    Z/na
    Ohad Naharin
    1995

  • PART, DANCE (Dance Party)

    PART, DANCE (Dance Party)
    Ohad Naharin
    1994

  • Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony
    Ohad Naharin
    1993

  • Perpetuum

    Perpetuum
    Ohad Naharin
    1993

  • Anaphase

    Anaphase
    Ohad Naharin
    1993

  • Mabul

    Mabul
    Ohad Naharin
    1992

  • Folkdance (with songs)

    Folkdance (with songs)
    Ralph Lemon
    1992

  • Stone Soup

    Stone Soup
    Doug Elkins
    1992

  • Arbos

    Arbos
    Ohad Naharin
    1991

  • Queens of Golub

    Queens of Golub
    Ohad Naharin
    1991

  • Black Milk

    Black Milk
    Ohad Naharin
    1990

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