Dorit weintal resume'

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"I believe in the transformative power of art and its potential to stimulate social change, to promote growth, experimentation and sustainability in the creative field.

This credo motivates me as a person and as an artist.""

 

 

(IL/IT) is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer based in Amsterdam, working internationally as a creator, performer, and teacher. She is the artistic director of Faido Company and the Dofai Foundation.

 

She holds a Master’s degree in the Theory of Arts and Architecture from Tel Aviv University (2001), where she focused on the transition “from Structuralism to Deconstruction in architecture.”

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Her work investigates human consciousness, social sustainability, and identity through dance, music-theater, film, video installation, and literary writing. Physicality, language, voice, and camera technologies serve as symbolic tools through which she formulates a critical, poetic approach to the human condition. She maintains a long-standing interest in Eastern philosophies and embodied practices.

 

Her artistic background spans dance, internal martial arts and acrobatics, literary writing, vocal work, photography, sculpture, and painting.

 

In Europe and Israel, she has collaborated and performed with a wide range of directors and companies, including Clipa Theatre, Simon McBurney, Kenzo Kusuda, Simon Rowe (Le Ballet C. de la B.), Acco Theatre Center, Ron Bunzl, Gabriella Maiorino, Vincent Verburg, Elshout & Handeler, among others. Since 2000, her work has been presented in South Korea, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

 

Since 2021, she has been studying Wugulun Kung Fu with Mr. Djuhaeri, a long-term martial arts practitioner and who has specialized in Wugulun since 2016. He trained for a year at the Shaolin Wugulun Kung Fu Academy in China—the birthplace of (Wu)Gulun Kung Fu, a traditional movement practice rooted in the Shaolin Temple—studying directly under masters led by Shifu Wu Nanfang.

 

In 2027, Weintal plans to travel to the Shaolin Wugulun Kung Fu Academy in China to continue her studies directly with the masters under the guidance of Shifu Wu Nanfang.

 

Living with chronic migraine, she investigates how dance and internal martial arts can serve both as an artistic language and as a method of wellbeing. This research is enriched through her collaboration with neurophysician Dr. Viona Wijnen.

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