Nitsan Margaliot is a choreographer, dancer, and curator entangled with family and queer archives, fabulation, and vulnerable encounters.
He danced with the Batsheva Ensemble and Vertigo Dance Company. Since moving to Berlin in 2014, he has worked with Laurent Chetouane, Maud Le Pladec, Kat Valastur, Aoife McAtamney, Moritz Majce, Benjamin Taos Bertrand, Anne Collod, Milla Koistinen and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop.
His choreographic works have been presented at 14StreetY NYC, Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts Sweden, Israel Festival, Radialsystem, English Theatre Berlin, Soundance Festival - Dock11, PATHOS Munich, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Adama Festival, LAB Frankfurt, Suzanne Dellal Centre, SomoS Arts Berlin, Barnes Crossing Cologne, Kelim Choreography Center, and Jewish Filmdays Frankfurt.
Nitsan holds an MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he evolved his research around subjective relation to time through writings and installations.
In 2020 he initiated TouchingMargins.com, an alter-archive, with Sasha Portyannikova and Anna Chwialkowska; and recently he founded The Choreographic Institute together with Tamar Sonn and Sarah Holcman. In 2022-23 he is co-curator of the exhibition and performance series Movement Research ACROSS at Galerie Wedding. He is a 2023 research resident at tanzhaus nrw and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm; and a recipient of the Tanzpraxis stipend granted by the Berlin Senate Department of Culture.