Photographer: Anne-Sylvie Bonnet, 2019
Rehearsal Director
In order to obtain her choreologist certificate, Naomi had to go through an internship upon completion of her studies. Naomi was assigned to work with the Groupe de Recherche Chorégraphique de le Opéra de Paris. Following her internship, and upon its
conclusion, Naomi was called to join Régine Chopinot's company as an assistant and choreologist. Régine Chopinot worked extensively with fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier. Naomi worked alongside Chopinot for about 4 years until 1988 and participated in the company's international tour. In 1988 Naomi Perlov was invited to serve as choreologist, assistant and rehearsal director for Albanian-French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. Naomi worked with Preljocaj in France for about a year until 1989. At that time, Preljocaj created his canonical work based on Igor Stravinsky's Noces, which portrayed wedding ceremonies in the Balkan traditions. The close artistic relationship between Naomi and Preljocaj brought her back to work with him in France and Israel. Perlov and Preljocaj are working together to this day. Naomi is often commissioned to recreate his works in opera houses, dance companies and schools around the world, like Paris Opera, La Scala-Milano, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Marinsky Ballet Saint Petersburg, New York City Ballet, NDT The Hague, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Royal Swedish Ballet Stockholm, Opera di Roma.
Opera di Roma
Photo: Yasuko Kageyama ,2016
Teaching
Naomi taught modern dance and trained dancers in many courses and workshops in Israel and around the world: Alvin Ailey, Jacobs Pillow, Codarts, ArtEZ dance academy, Hollins University,Beijing National Dance, Context pro-St.Petersburg, Sead, ZHdk Zurich University of the Arts ,Academy Kibbutzim College of Education Tel-Aviv, Music & dance academy in Jerusalem, etc.
Naomi Perlov's classes develop technique, utilizing musicality and explosive energy of the dancers. The energy of the class gives the feeling of freedom into the movement and the use of space while strongly based on Ballet technique. The first phase of the class starts with a slow and simple warm-up that moves through the arms, back, shoulders, and neck with rolling actions and Plies. At the second phase of the class the pace increases and as well the
intensity of the exercises while moving bigger in space, using musicality, coordination and projection. The third phase of the class draws from Angelin
Preljocaj repertoire and consists of combinations inspired from his most wellknown
works while adopting simple phrases, keeping both the style and the high standards demanded.
From the very beginning of the class until its' end, there is a process of a climax. The dancers will strengthen their center, force, self-discipline, and will develop their ability to move larger, faster and with more power.
The class usually accompanied with a professional percussionist.
Naomi Perlov
Artistic Director of Suzanne Dellal Centre, Choreologist, Rehearsal Director, and Dance Teacher.
Biography
Naomi Perlov was born in Israel,1959.
Perlov began her artistic career as a musician, playing trumpet and clarinet. At the age of 14 she decided to forsake music for dance and began studying at the Bat Dor Studio in Tel-Aviv – a dance school directed by Jeanette Ordman with the support of Baroness Bat-Sheva de Rothschild. At the Bat Dor Studio she received professional training in classical ballet and modern dance by teachers from Israel and abroad, including: Milton Myers and Viola Farber. Perlov joined the Batsheva 2 company, under the artistic direction of choreographer Paul Sanasardo. In 1980 she decided to travel to the United States and Europe with the aim of learning additional modern dance techniques. After six months in New York she left for Paris where she lived for 8 years. During her first two years she studied and taught at the Schola Cantorum Paris– a school with prominent graduates including the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj.
In 1983 Naomi moved to London to study Rudolf Benesh's movement notation, at the Benesh Institute of Choreology for two years and graduated with Honors.
Angelin Preljocaj and Naomi Perlov Royal Swedish Ballet.
Photo: Anne-Sylvie Bonnet 2019
Artistic Director
In 1993 Naomi was commissioned to serve as rehearsal director for the Batsheva Ensemble and from 1994-1998 she served as artistic director for the ensemble together with Ohad Naharin. Naomi toured with the Ensemble in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. During her time as artistic director, she launched and curated Video Dance - a first of its kind project in Israel, which constituted the making of Video Dance films of the Ensemble's dancers in collaboration with the leading cinema schools in Israel, once a year. Following this project, she was offered to lead a similar project in 1998 at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) where the films would be inspired by French poets of the twentieth century. Between 1997 and 1999, she co-directed a Video-Dance project for teenagers, as part of the Matan Arts & Culture Project For Youth course in
Givat Haviva, Israel. From 1999 to 2006, she served as artistic director for the biannual Shades in Dance contest for young Israeli artists at the Suzanne Dellal Centre. In 2008, she established The Maslool - Professional Dance Program, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and offered Offir Dagan to manage it with her. The 'Maslool' is a professional dance program located at Bikurey Ha'tim Arts Center in Tel Aviv and has been endorsed and supported by the
Israeli Ministry of Culture since 2010. The program aims to integrate people classified as outstanding dancers by the IDF in the world of professional dance in Israel and abroad. In this intensive two years studies, dancers are given the opportunity to work with some of the best teachers and choreographers and to perform in about 40 shows per year. In 2014, Naomi was appointed as artistic director of the Footsteps project, initiated by Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, which called upon choreographers to conceive dance scores inspired by canonical Israeli dance scores from the 1950s to 1990, which serve as significant foundations of contemporary dance in Israel.
In 2019, Perlov was appointed by the Suzanne Dellal Centre Detection Committee to serve as the Center’s Artistic Director.
Naomi Perlov is the Artistic Director of the Suzanne Dellal Centre officially since September 2020.