Eilit Marom (1986, Haifa) is a choreographer and visual artist based in both Israel and the Netherlands. Her performances are driven by a pronounced clear action or interaction that brings performers and public in direct contact with their embodied natural knowledge. She uses distinct physical tasks like, letting go of something or leaning into each other, as a starting point for creation. She finds layers of poetic links between the bodily expression and universal experiences that speak of trust, liberation and sociability. With a background in dance she employs a collaborative approach to discipline, negotiating perspectives with embodiment as a central material. Eilit’s work includes community based events as well as performances with an established performer-public relation, her practice illuminates the do-er's intentions offering freedom in engagement, accessible for trained performers or general public. In recent years she started collecting tasks that evoke experiences of pleasure. She focuses on simple delights that engage one with their senses, connection to others and their environment. She defined more than 200 Unforbidden Pleasures - actions and interactions that offer a mindful moment of embodiment; listening to the echo, building momentum or searching for the horizon - these Unforbidden Pleasures become choreographic tasks in her performances and the public, her companion.

Her work has been presented in both dance and visual art contexts, in venues such as Helmhaus Museum (CH), Unfair Amsterdam (NL), Haifa Theater (IL), Supercell Brisbane (AU), Korzo (NL) and iii (NL). With a BA in Dance from ArtEZ university of the arts (NL) Eilit developed an international career as a performer and maker. She is a recipient of the ‘Artist in Community’ grant from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and founder of ‘Karov Meod’ movement in the public space festival in downtown Haifa. In 2020 she joined Helicopter artists initiative & studios in the Hague, a home for interdisciplinary practices. Eilit regularly teaches and guides groups, making her approach and embodied practice available to others. She is also certified to teach Anouk van Dijk’s movement method Countertechnique and she has been sharing her knowledge with professionals and communities in art centers and universities around the world.

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Eilit Marom 
10 June 1986, Haifa, Israel

Education
2021 NLP Practitioner Diploma (ABNLP) by Keren Meliniak - Yozmot Collage, Israel. 
2012 Countertechnique Teacher Certification, movement method by Founder Anouk van Dijk, the Netherlands.
2006 - 2010 BA Dance, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem The Netherlands
2004 - 2006 The Dance Workshop Professional Training Program, Gaaton, Israel

Presentations (Selection)
2024 I never want to dance again, theater performance, co-production Het National Theater, the Hague, Netherlands. 
2023 Slowly Letting Go Of Something, durational performance, group exhibition What the swans are Twittering about in the riverbed curated by Elena Apostolovski at Trixie The Hague, Netherlands. 
2022 Do Geese See God?, a performative exhibition with Anouk van Klaveren and Dewi Bekker at Pip Expo, curated by Alexander Webber & Laura Snijders, The Hague, Netherlands.
2022 Singing Along, performance at opening Unfair22 Gashouder Westergas Amsterdam.
2022 Throwing and catching, performance installation at Wasteland Group exhibition, curated by Yannik Guldner and Leon Lapa Pereira, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague.
2022 Building Momentum, performance with Jong Korzo, at Korzo theater, The Hague.  
2022 Being Part of a Crowd, participatory performance, at Flipchart, curated by Leon Lapa Pereira in iii workspace The Hague.
2021 Create something and destroy it, participatory performance at Fietstival in Helicopter, The Hague. 
2021 Unforbidden Pleasures, performance installation solo evening at Korzo, the Hague. 
2019 11 Dimensions Resonating in Hyperspace, performance at 24HAmsterdam, CBK Amsterdam Oost, Netherlands. 
2019 Autonomous Response, livestream video installation at Less is More group exhibition, Curated by Ofira Zilbershtein at Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center Haifa, Israel.  
2018 Frequency or whatever happens now, solo performance at Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center Haifa, Israel.
2017 (To) Come and See /(To) Keep in Touch /(To) Give a Hand, installation, workshops and performances at 100 Days program Veem House for Performances, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
2017 (To) Come and See /(To) Keep in Touch /(To) Give a Hand, installation, workshops and performances at An Exhibition for You! Group exhibition at Helmhaus Museum Zurich, Switzerland.
2017 (To) Come and See, theater performance at Supercel Festival, Brisbane, Australia.
2017 (To) Come and See, theater performance, Israel tour: March Hare festival Tel Aviv , Mash Dance House Jerusalem, Blender Haifa Theater, Israel. 
2017 Paxton/Braxton, performance at Play-Haifa group exhibition Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center Haifa, Israel 
2016 (To) Come and See, theater performance in collaboration with Simone Truong, Anna Masoni, Elpida Orfanidue and Adina Secretan. European tour at Gessnerrallee Zurich and Sevelin 36 Lausanne, Switzerland. Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis – Paris, France. 
2016 Duo presentation with artist Adam Nillissen, sculptures at Unfair16 Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2016 (To) Come and See, durational performance during Unfair16 at Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2016 Ever Wonder, in collaboration with Makiko Ito and Or Hakim, Interactive performance with live music for children and children with special needs at the International Children Festival Haifa, Israel.
2016 Magic Garden, performance at project 48, curated by Dana Rutenberg as part of Diver Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Notable Projects
2018 Founder and director of Karov Meod Festival for art in public space focusing on performance, with 80 local and international participating artists., Haifa, Israel.
2017 - 2018 co-Founder and curator of  Blender performance series, in collaboration with Haifa Theater, Haifa, Israel.
2016 - 2017 Ever Wonder, interdisciplinary performance with children and people with other abilities, Haifa, Israel. 

International Exchange and Residencies 
2020 - ongoing Resident and member of Helicopter interdisciplinary artists initiative, The Hague, Netherlands.
2021 Online International exchange, Making Sense with Circe Platform, Tbilisi Georgia. 
2019 Guest Artist, at Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center Haifa, Israel.
2017 International exchange program at The Farm, Bare Bones, Gold Coast, Australia.
2015 Research Residency with Simone Truong, Dansateliers, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 
2015 Research residency, Isadora Duncan Studios, Athens, Greece. 
2014 Le Mouvement - Performing the City Biel/Bienne, Switzerland International exchange - participant in performance projects by Alexandra Prici (Tilted Arc) and Alexandra Bachzetsis (Undressed). Curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp Performing an open-air exhibition that replaces sculpture by live performers.
2013 Research Residency, Cloud as Danslab, The Hague, Netherlands. 

Grants
2022 Makersregeling Development Grant, Municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands 
2021 Pro Art Project Grant Unforbidden Pleasures from Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands. 
2017 Artist in the Community Grant from the Israeli Ministry of Culture Jerusalem, Israel. Awarded a grant for the project "Sign Movement'' developed with the deaf and hard-hearing community in Quiryat Motzkin, Israel.
2016 International Artists exchange grant from Mifal HaPais foundation for the arts, Israel.  
2014 Artistic Development Grant Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Amsterdam, Netherlands 
2012 Development Grant Fonds Podiumkunsten Amsterdam, Netherlands

Performing Experience (selection)
2017 Lost in gray, by Kalpana Raghuraman, Kalpanarts and Korzo productions, The Netherlands.
2015 Is this the beginning of it all , by Simone Truong, Gessnerallee Zurich, Switzerland. 
2013 The Show Must Go On, by Jerome Bel, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Switzerland.
2011 - 2013 Table, by Yael Davids Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands.
2012 New Work, by Amos Ben Tal, Korzo productions, The Netherlands.
2012 Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, by Mike Kelley and Anita Pace restaging 1989 at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
2011 Gridding Sentences, by Jennifer tee and Jack Gallagher at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Teaching Experience
2012 - ongoing Guest lecturer at JMD Academy of the arts Jerusalem, KABK Artscience Interfaculty, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Fontys University of the Arts, ATD University of the Arts, Manufacture University Lausanne, Galil Maaravi Collage, Codarts University of the Arts, Hasadna Haifa for Contemporary Dance and MUDA Dance. 
2020 - ongoing Work Field Orientation course at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands.
2012 - ongoing  Countertechnique at dance centers: HJS Amsterdam, Tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf, Tanzhaus Zurich, Dansateliers, Korzo, Dans i Nord Sweden, De stilte Breda, Pro Morning Tel Aviv, Chunky Move Melbourne. 
2014 Performance Practice workshops for cross-disciplinary performers supported by AFK in Amsterdam, NL. 
2013 Artistic Practice workshop for cross-disciplinary performers in Dans i Nord , Sweden.