Maya Schwartz is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, and Yoga, as well as a certified Ilan Lev Method therapist. Originally from Ukraine and Israel-Palestine and currently based in Berlin, she is the co-founder, with Asaf Bacharach, of Larretude, a horizontal study group for dance improvisation, which has taken place at Larret en Mouvements in France. She has performed and collaborated with choreographers including Roni Chadash, Gil Kerer, Lilach Pnina Livne, Michal Ben Lior, Sally Ann Friedland, and Maya Brinner, and has worked with Vertigo Dance Company and its project Power of Balance. Her choreographic works include solo pieces NoThing and Growing Pains, as well as collaborations such as Primal Feelings (duet with Judy Adini) and Alata (duet with Schahar Dolinsky). Maya is the creator of Deep Into You, an ongoing series of retreats blending art and movement in nature, hosted across Israel-Palestine, Sinai, France, Portugal, and Peru. She has performed and taught in Panama, Peru, the Canary Islands, Japan, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Croatia, and the United States (New Mexico, New York).
