Tzipi Nir establishes and coordinates the dance program at Midreshet AMIT Modiin, teaches and presents matriculation in modern dance and composition. She is an international dancer and artist in dance, and winner of the Minister of Education Award for Jewish work. To this day, she has performed the dance works Aboya, Wild, Inside Kabaro, The Red Tent, and more. Tzipi has been a dancer in various bands and projects, some in religious dance spaces and some secular. Tzipi says that she discovered that dance is a personal space of deep and inner expression, and it suited her personality, striving for excellence and challenges.
Who I am in 99 words
Tzipi Nir, a resident of Gimzo, married to Gili and mother to Yitav (14.5), Noga (12), Shalev (6), and Yarden (6 months). Establishes and coordinates the dance program at Midreshet AMIT Modiin, teaches, and presents matriculation in the fields of modern dance and composition. Israeli and international dancer and artist in dance, winner of the Minister of Education Award for Jewish work. To this day, I have performed the dance works Aboya, Wild, Inside Kabaro, The Red Tent, and more – which I have presented at festivals and other settings. A dancer in various bands and projects, some in religious dance spaces and some secular. I discovered that dance is a personal space of deep and inner expression. It suited my personality, at the same time as it is an area of hard work, precision, striving for excellence, and challenges.
I chose to be photographed…
In the empty concert hall, as a tribute to my fellow artists who moved away from their source of livelihood due to the passion for creation, and as a tribute to my students who long to return and perform. This period destroyed and put the field to sleep, but in my eyes, it also created something new for each of us. Gathering in homes with the family created a different order of priority, a renewed perception, and clarification of how, and for me, it came at the right time.
Why be a teacher
Teaching dance is like work. In the end, I feel that there is a real encounter between young souls who are looking for a place for an in-depth search regarding their “I believe,” and who want to meet themselves through the connection of the physical, cognitive, mental, and emotional tools, with professionalism and dedication to such a demanding field. I am especially moved by the personal processes that girls go through in their artistic search and choice of dance language for their works as a way of dealing with things that bother them. Girls often told me that the creative process released something in them that sat and weighed on them for years. When they dealt with it this way, of a personal work that eventually takes the stage in front of an audience, it suddenly calmed down and settled with the rest of the personality and mind.
Inspirational character
There are some characters I am connected to. What they have in common is daring and walking with the truth. One of them is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, and the other – “another,” his full name is Elisha ben Aboyah. I seem to find this example in the current generation as well. I am thrilled by the ease with which he learns and experiences everything that interests him, lightly, through YouTube and Instagram, simple experiences without the heaviness and perfectionism that binds only what you learned in an orderly institution, like the school of previous generations. She still felt captive to her.
Motto for life
I do not believe in this phrase, “motto for life.” He who has a motto for life dresses reality in everything that is not reality. I believe in experiencing life in the here and now, reaching out, and being willing to accept what is happening in front of you. There is no motto. You have to feel the moment, the person in front of you, the pulse.
My dream as a teacher
That I can connect the art I create outside of school, and create an artistic, feminine, and human community. That the graduates will return to creating, and that there will be a home for artists who have grown up within the trend and continue to grow and increase within it. Above all, I will be able to touch the souls of my students, and I will be able to be meaningful and give what is needed to grow and be healed through art.
