Yuval pick

Yuval Pick has established his own unique style of choreography, deepening his approach to movement and music by constructing original dialogues. Trained at the Bat-Dor Dance School in Tel Aviv, he joined the Batsheva Dance Company in 1991, leaving in 1995 to embark on a career with artists such as Tero Saarinen, Carolyn Carlson and Russel Maliphant. In 1999, he joined the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Lyon, before founding his own company, The Guests, in 2002. He created the solo Cotton Crown, Popular Music in 2005 and Score in 2010. After a career as a performer, teacher and choreographer, Yuval Pick was appointed head of the CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape in 2011, where he developed his Practice method and created works such as No play hero, pièce (2012). In 2014, Yuval Pick created two new works, the duet loom and Ply. In 2015, he created Apnée (corps vocal) and Are friends electric, and in 2020, Vocabulary of need on Bach’s Partita in D minor. In 2023, Yuval Pick created Silver Rosa, based on music by Max Bruckert, at the Château Rouge as part of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, then at the Lyon Dance Biennial in 2023. With his latest piece, Into the Silence, which premiered at the Prima Onda festival in Palermo, Yuval Pick embarks on a new artistic phase in which all his pieces are based on the fundamentals of his method, Practice. He left the CCNR in 2024 and set up his own company, Lignes Sauvages, in 2025. 

“Practice is a method based on guided improvisation. It proposes to rediscover the organic and intimate depth of each movement. It invites each person to (re)discover their own singular bodily identity, and a freer relationship with space and others. With Practice, what matters is no longer the trajectory to follow, a posture to hold, or a technical gesture to execute; it’s about setting the internal as well as the external elements in motion, intentional actions, marked by subjectivity. I involve myself and create new relationships between inside and outside, and within my own bodily “inside”. Action takes place both inside and outside me, and in between. Practice’s aim is to dance and to danceify! Dancing the relationship with oneself, the relationship with space, the relationship with others. During the week-long workshop, using Practice, we will create playful, sensitive situations that focus on one of the method’s key fundamentals: in-between-species. We’ll also be linking these experiences with music. Your music, my music, our music, to thicken these experiences and the encounter between us.”
Yuval Pick