Efrat Rubin works in the charged space between movement and stillness. An Israeli choreographer, dancer, painter and video artist, she takes the body as her first material — then watches it vanish, resurface, and settle into image. Her practice moves...
Read MoreEfrat Rubin works in the charged space between movement and stillness. An Israeli choreographer, dancer, painter and video artist, she takes the body as her first material — then watches it vanish, resurface, and settle into image. Her practice moves fluidly between contemporary dance, stop-motion animation, oil painting, robotics, augmented reality and site-specific performance, holding them all to a single question: how presence survives its own disappearance. Running through the work are the female gaze, the friction between technology and human connection, and the fragile possibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence.
Rubin trained in choreography at P.A.R.T.S. (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / ROSAS), Brussels, and studied Visual Communication at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. In 2014 she received the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Choreography. A member of the Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, she has exhibited across more than twelve countries. Her painting cycle “The Apple Doesn’t Fall” (thirty-six oil portraits, 2022) and video works such as “Winds” carry her movement research into surface, image, and the quiet after motion.
