Yaron Margolin

Yaron Margolin was born in 1954 in Moshav Tel Adashim, Israel.

He began studying dance at age four, and in 1968 began studying in Haifa with Yardena Cohen.
In 1977, Margolin was admitted to Batsheva and won a Gertrud Kraus Scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He danced in the original cast of Anna Sokolow’s Rooms (1977). On that year, he also danced with Batsheva 2 in Sense of Flight, More Fields, Song of Myself. In 1979 he left the company for the Jerusalem Dance Workshop directed by Flora Cushman.

In 1987, he established the Yaron Margolin Dance Company, for which he created the following choreographies: Cursed Women (1987), Dance No. 10 (1987), Davidbundlertanze (1989), Inferno (1992), Nur al-Ghira (Fire of Jealousy) (1996), Oriental Fantasy (1997). In 1999, he established the Multicultural Dance Company, an amateur troupe, for which he created the suite The Dances of Shem’s Sons.
In the 1990s Margolin was a dance critic for the Jerusalem newspaper. He published articles in the art magazine Studio, as well as in the journals Dance in Israel and Dance Now. Together with Naftali Ironi, he wrote The Independent Dance (1991). In 2002, he published a study on Sara Levi-Tanai’s oeuvre called Dances from the Olympus, which was published by Inbal Dance Theater in the book Sara Levi-Tanai’s Choreographic Path.
Yaron Margolin is the inventor of the Margolin Method, a unique dance language for developing dancers’ flexibility.
In 2000, he received a Certificate of Recognition from the Jerusalem Municipality for his contribution to the advancement of youth in Jerusalem.