Nitsan Margaliot is a dancer and choreographer entangled with queer archives, materializing impossibilities, returning otherwise, absurdity and relationality.
He danced in Batsheva Ensemble Dance Company and Vertigo Dance Company. He has worked with choreographers such as Laurent Chétouane, Maud Le Pladec, Kat Válastur, Aoife McAtamney, Anne Collod, and Moritz Majce + Sandra Man.
He co-founded Mo.Ré, a collective for movement research in Berlin.
He published his first poetry book in Hebrew titled “The words are faded in my head”, his writing has been published at the recent issue of Imagined Theatres Journal.
Nitsan holds an MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he was a fellowship recipient with the support of the University of the Arts President's Fund for Excellence, BGU/Philadelphia Academic Bridge Fund, Szloma-Albam-Stiftung, and the Norbert Janssen Stiftung.
In 2020 he received the 'Best Dancer' award at the SoloDuo NRW International festival. His project 'Touching Margins' with Sasha Portyannikova is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. He is a current DIS-TANZ-SOLO scholarship recipient. His choreographic work has been presented in festivals and venues in Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Israel, and the U.S.
