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.
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.
For the past few years, Amit has been creating performances with his family members that mash genres, archives, and aesthetic materials together. 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.
In 2024, he was commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery to create Errant, a performance for the museum space. Errant was performed eighty-four times to over 80,000 visitors as part of the inaugural edition of the new triennal exhibition ‘Aotearoa Contemporary’. In 2025, Amit will premiere a new work for the theatre at Festival Montpellier Danse.
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 also writes on dance and performance for publications including Artforum, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and Gagosian Quarterly.
In Hebrew, ‘Amit’ means good friend.
In the studio and onstage, I try to metabolise questions: how am I welcoming history? How am I loving and being loved?
How am I present to violence and repair? How can I be most alive?
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Photo by Thierry Hauswauld
