Amit Noy is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. Raised in Oahu, Hawai’i and Aotearoa New Zealand, he now lives and works in Marseille, France. 

For the past few years, Amit has been creating performances with his family members that mash genres, archives, and aesthetic materials together to create intergenerational soups for our ill future. Their evening-length collaboration A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope premiered at Théâtre de la Ville—Paris in September 2023, and is currently touring.  

Since 2019, Amit dances with Michael Keegan-Dolan’s company Teaċ Daṁsa (MÁM, NOBODADDY), performing at La Biennale di Venezia, Sadlers Wells Theatre, Teatros del Canal, and Taipei International Festival of the Arts, among others.  

He writes often on dance and performance, for publications including Artforum, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and Gagosian Quarterly

In 2022, Amit received the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography to study with Miguel Gutierrez and Deborah Hay. He was made a Springboard laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2023, and was an awarded finalist in the 2022 edition of Danse Élargie.

In Hebrew, ‘Amit’ means good friend. 

I am trying to metabolise questions: how am I welcoming history? How am I loving and being loved? How am I present to violence and repair? How do I feel about being alive?

I am informed by the genealogy of my dancing. I studied Hawaiian hula with Kahelepuna Richardson-Naki and Chinky Mahoe for seven years, where I experienced dance as a process of meaning-making, storytelling, and social relation. In Aotearoa New Zealand, I toed the intersection of rigour and wildness whilst studying with Deirdre Tarrant, James O’Hara, Tor Colombus, and at the New Zealand School of Dance. Recently, Deborah Hay and Miguel Gutierrez have opened me up to new approaches and strategies based on perception and sense-making. Working closely with Michael Keegan-Dolan since 2019 has led me deeper into my fierce belief in rhythm, collaboration, and ritual.
 

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