Amit Palgi

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Amit Palgi is an Israeli\Austrian artist based in The Netherlands. He studied dance; therefore, his art is mainly focused on the intimacy of human bodies and movements. Amit worked with film and technology, get inspiration from theater, shared dance in fine-art galleries, and tries whenever possible to collaborate with humor. As a highly sensitive person, Amit hopes to share with his art a sense of vulnerability, empathy, and community. To move, communicate and touch. In the fast world of today, Amit tries to offer with his art a moment to look at yourself and at others.


Creations of Amit performed on stages and galleries in the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium such as Theater ann the Rijn, Sala Ars Teatre Barcelona, Vrij Paleis gallery, and Korzo. He created and performed for Café theater festival and the Theater Concordia in Enschede. Dance films created by him, include 360° films and interactive film, shared in film festivals over the

world such as Cinedans, AVDP12, and Berlin Lift-Off.


Amit is graduating this year from ArtEZ University of the Arts, the Netherlands, with a Bachelor of dance\Maker. Before that Amit studied at The Maslool for professional dancers, Tel Aviv.

 “It is clear that Amit is a creative and open-minded artist, curious and brave.”.

After high school, Amit went to study at the dance program "The Maslool for Professional Dancer -Tel Aviv". In the Maslool Amit studied repertoires and worked with well-known choreographers in Israel and the dance scene as Sharon Eyal, Roy Asaf, Saar Magal, and more. He was chosen there to work and perform with the Ballet Preljocaj, Pavillon Noir (France). After and parallel his study there, Amit took part in some small creative processes with the choreographers Michael Getman (Israel), Thierry Smits (Belgium), Dor Mamaia, and Dariusz Nowak (Germany).

During his studies in High school, Amit got scholarships from the AICF-America-Israel Cultural Foundation- and the summer schools of the AAB-2014 and MIP 2017, both of them located in New York City.

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