Choreographer and artistic director of The Noa Dar Dance Group, was born in kibbutz Degania at the north of Israel, where she started her dance training. At 18, she was invited to join the Batsheva Ensemble.
Following a grant she received from Merce Cunningham, she moved to New York and danced with the companies of the choreographers: Zvi Gotheiner, Jeanette Stoner and Neta Pulvelmacher.
Noa was a founding member of The colective Tamar Dance Company, where she began to choreograph.
During 1990-92, Noa created in Paris, supported by grants from the “America-Israel Cultural Foundation” and the French government.
In 1993 she established The Noa Dar Dance Group in Tel Aviv, together with eight dancers, musicians and visual artists who are partners to the creation process and for developing a unique movement and visual language.
Since then, Noa Created 26 works commissioned by the major Israeli festivals: “Israel Festival”, “Curtain Up”, “Acco Festival for Alternative Theater”, and works for young
Audience in the frame of “The Children’s’ Sound festival”.
Among her recent works: 2009 - “Anu” (Us) – A work commissioned for the special addition of Curtain Up’s 20est anniversary. “The switched heads” (08) – A theater work, commissioned and produced by the “Inter- discipline Arena” in Jerusalem and performed by a cast of Arabs and Jews actors and dancers. “Arnica”(07) commissioned by the Israel Festival, “Tetris” (06) –commissioned and produced by the Acco Festival , and the duo -“The sweetest embrace”(05).
The company is performing intensively throughout the year in Israel and abroad.
Among it’s International tours, where major festivals and venues in Italy, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Holland, China, Estonia, Lithuania, Chile and Costa Rica.
Noa Dar is a recipient of a numerous of awards and grants, among them -
The Minister of Culture’s Prize for her outstanding choreography, the Minister of Culture’s prize for performance’ excellence, for creating “Tetris”: an award of excellence from the "A’cco Festival for Alternative Theater", The Rosenblum Prize for the performing arts of the City of Tel Aviv - for her chorographical achievements and for artistic excellence and the most prestige’s prize – the 2009 Creation Award from the minister of culture.
The company is giving regular classes at The Noa Dar Studio, workshops and lecture demonstration for dance students and the public.
The group is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports (the dance division), the Israeli Lottery council for the arts, The Rabinovich Foundation and The cultural relations department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
