Guy Weizman (born 1973) is an Israel choreographer and director. Together with his partner Roni Haver, he is artistic director of the dance company Club Guy & Roni in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Since January 2017 Weizman has been artistic and general director of the Dutch theatre company Noord Nederlands Toneel in Groningen.
In 2018 he won the directors award at the Dutch Theater Festival for Salam.
In 2018 Weizman's Noord Nederlands Toneel and Club Guy & Roni started the interdisciplinary movement called NITE together with Asko|Schönberg and Slagwerk Den Haag.
Dance career
editGuy Weizman began his career as a dancer with the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. In 2002, after dancing with companies in Berlin, Barcelona and Galili Dance in the Netherlands, he started his own international dance company with Roni Haver in Groningen (NL).
Club Guy & Roni performs innovative contemporary dance pieces in collaboration with other disciplines such as theatre, literature, film and visual arts.
From January 1, 2017, Weizman serves as artistic and general director of the Noord Nederlands Toneel.[1]
Choreographer and director
edit- 2020 Swan Lake the Game, coproduction Slagwerk Den Haag and Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation, music by Kordz
- 2020 Swan Lake, coproduction Slagwerk Den Haag and Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation, music by Kordz
- 2020 Before/After, coproduction Noord Nederlands Toneel, Slagwerk Den Haag and Asko|Schönberg, music by Luke Deane
- 2019 LOVE, coproduction GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Slagwerk Den Haag and Asko|Schönberg
- 2019 Brave New World 2.0, coproduction Noord Nederlands Toneel, Slagwerk Den Haag and Asko|Schönberg
- 2018 Tetris Mon Amour, coproduction with Slagwerk Den Haag, music bij Thijs de vlieger (NOISIA)
- 2018 Salam, coproduction Noord Nederlands Toneel, Club Guy & Roni, Asko|Schönberg
- 2017 Carrousel, coproduction Noord Nederlands Toneel, Club Guy & Roni, Asko|Schönbergs K[h]AOS
- 2016 Happiness, coproduction with Slagwerk Den Haag
- 2015 Phobia, coproduction with EN-KNAP (SI) and Slagwerk Den Haag
- 2015 Sparks, Festival Classique, was broadcast live on Dutch national television. In cooperation with The Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest)
- 2015 Mechanical Ecstasy, with musicians of Slagwerk Den Haag, music composition by Jan-Bas Bollen and Thijs de Vlieger (NOISIA).
- 2014 My Private Odyssey, coproduction with tanzmainz / Staatstheater Mainz (DE) and musicians Tomoko Mukaiyama, Monica Germino and Anne La Berge. Music composition David Dramm and Tomoko Mukaiyama.
- 2014 Gift for Infinity (RUG), performance 400 year anniversary of the Groningen University with Noord Nederlands Orkest, WERC video collective and media artist Jan Klug.
- 2013 Naked Lunch, coproduction with the musicians of Slagwerk Den Haag and vocalists of Silbersee. Music composition Yannis Kyriakides. Text by Oscar van Woensel.
- 2013 CRASH, coproduction with NNT
- 2013 L’Histoire du Soldat, with musicians of Lunapark
- 2012 Midnight Rising, with the Israeli singer-songwriter Ehud Banai
- 2011 Miraculous Wednesday, coproduction with State Theater Oldenburg (DE)
- 2010 Alpha Boys
- 2010 Four Walls
- 2010 FKK
- 2009 Heelhuids & Halsoverkop, coproduction with NNT
- 2009 Desert Highway
- 2009 Pinball and Grace
- 2008 Poetic Disasters
- 2007 Myrrh and Cinnamon
- 2005 Language of Walls
Guest choreographer / director
edit- 2015 Noord Nederlands Toneel (NL) - De Twaalf Gezworenen
- 2014 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Finale Grande
- 2014 Theatre Ballet Moscow (RU) - OpArt
- 2013 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Romeo et Juliette
- 2013 The Göteborg Opera (SE) – Mama I'm Coming Home
- 2011 Tsekh Contemporary Dance Centre, Moscow (RU) - L'Histoire du Soldat
- 2010 Staatstheater Oldenburg (DE) - Air Ways
- 2009 Carte Blanche, Bergen (NO) – When Clarity Visits
- 2009 Schauspiel Kölln (DE) - 60 Years
- 2007 Scapino Ballet (NL) – Bowler's Heaven
- 2002 Ballet du Nord (FR) – Silence pas de Silence
- 1999 Galili Dance (NL) – In Remains