Ms. Shezaf has gained an acclaimed international career as Flamenco dancer, teacher and choreographer. She has accumulated numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the `sharet fund` award, a scholarship by the Government of Spain, and the 1991 `Wandering Top –hat` award from the `Omanut la`am` institution. She performed with the Mario Maya’s Gypsy Dance Company in Spain and in the Lincoln center in New York, and with Rafael Aguilar`s company in Italy. She also performed in a number of `Tablaos` - tradition Flamenco taverns – in Madrid, Mexico and Japan, and in festivals in Andalusia, homeland of Flamenco.

Next to that she performed with in a Israeli-Spanish collaboration together with Laura Toledo, a show which recreates the Jewish culture in Spain. She staged three company performances: `patio Andaluse`,` Tiempo Flamenco`and `Yamada` in the Suzan Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. She performed with different actors, poets and musicians, for example, in collaboration with the Reflex Ensemble, which was shown during the `Curtain Up Dance Festival`, 1998. Together with contemporary musician Karen Rosenbaum, the Reflex Ensemble also performed in the Tel-Aviv performing Arts Center.

In Israel, Ms shezaf staged two solo shows: `Longings` and `Flamenco`, in the Suzan Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv, and was solo dancer with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and the National Chamber Orchestra, dancing `El Amor Brujo`. She performed as `Carmen’s Destiny` in the Valoni Opera House`s production of `Carmen`, in Belgium, France and in the Massimo Theater in Palermo, Italy. And also toured Italy as a solo Artist. Ms shezaf runs a Flamenco school and dance company, and teaches in Tel-Aviv, Madrid and Italy.

"Amanecer" - sunrise in Spanish, is a new ensemble that revives the bond between Flamenco and one of its most important influences, the Jewish culture. Amanecer is a unique meeting point, enhancing a new sunrise for a modern Spanish-Israeli dialogue.

"Morena amoora" – A female Dialogue between Middle Eastern Dance and Flamenco
Tribes that wandered out of India and reached, over hundreds of years, Europe and west, influenced both Middle Eastern dance and flamenco. These tribes, later to be known as Gypsies, settled down, among other places, in the Middle East and in Spain. Both dance traditions, Flamenco and Middle Eastern Dance, allow for female sensuality to be expressed.

The performance, consists out of solo pieces, performed according to each of the dances` unique style, as well as out of fascinating duets, composed that enhance the meeting between both dance traditions: the Arab and the Spanish. 

The solo pieces are based characters, typical to the respective cultures from which the dance-style derives. This enriches the performance with a theatrical quality, and creates an exciting contrast in the duets. The interaction between both dancers and the live musicians, Arab drums and singing, a flamenco guitar and Oud, a ladino singing (traditional Jewish songs from Spain),Kajon (a flamenco drum), and a dialogue between sagat (finger cymbals) and castanets, lifts the whole performance onto a dynamic and bewildering.

“A Praise to Feminine Sexuality” review by Tikva Hoter-Yishai, Yediot Achronot

“…The combination of Elina Pechersky – sexy and graceful, and Neta Shezaf – dramatic and forceful – both compliments and contradicts both dance style beautifully. In the last piece, “A la Chafla”, the dancers, together with the musicians, fired up the crowed, which demanded no less then four encores”.

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