Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter is widely regarded as one of the world’s most exciting contemporary choreographers. A graduate of the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music and a former company member of the world-renowned Batsheva Dance Company, Shechter now directs his eponymous company, which tours worldwide to audience and critical acclaim. As a choreographer, his works have been in the repertories of some of the world’s leading international dance companies, including Nederlands Dans Theater, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Carte Blanche Dance Company, and Bern Ballet. In 2013, Shechter collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera on Nico Mulhy’s opera Two Boys and in 2014 he served as guest director of Brighton Festival. In March 2015, he created a new work, Untouchable, for The Royal Ballet, and in 2016 he received a Tony Award nomination for his choreography for the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Shechter was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Dance in 2018, the same year that his company's first dance film, Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns, was broadcast by the BBC to great acclaim. His next short film POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut premiered in July 2021, and in 2022, a collaboration with French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch saw the release of the much-anticipated feature En corps. Shechter is an associate artist of Sadler’s Wells, London.