Rami Be’er

Rami Be’er was born in 1957 in Kibbutz Ga’aton.

He began studying the cello at a young age and at the same time took eurhythmics lessons with Yehudit Arnon. Later on, he trained at the Ga’aton Dance Workshop.
In 1980, he joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC). In 1981, he won a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and went to train in the US, where he began to choreograph and created his first dances:  Lullaboy, Trio (1981); Sonatina (1983). In 1984, Be’er returned to Israel and choreographed Death Comes to Rocking-Horse Michael for KCDC. Three years later, he was appointed as the company’s resident choreographer and assistant artistic director.
That same year, in 1987, Be’er was commissioned to choreograph View for Batsheva. He choreographed for many other companies, including Graz Opera Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet Company, Staatsballett Berlin, Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, and Tanztheater Bremen, New Danish Dance Theater, and others.
Since 1996, Be’er has been serving as KCDC’s artistic manager, for which he created over fifty works, most of them full-length dances for adults and some for children. His best-known choreographies include: Reservist Diary (1989), Naked City (1993), Aide Memoire (1994), Screensaver (2002), Magnum (2007), Infrared (2010), If At All (2013).
Be’er is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gertrud Kraus Choreography Competition Award (1984), Yair Shapira Award for his contribution to Israeli dance (1986), Creation Award by the Minister of Science, Culture and Sports (1999), Performance Award by the Minister of Education (2004), Landau Dance Award (2004), Rosenblum Dance Award (2005), and Creation Award by the Minister of Education (2010).