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Limor Ziv
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Biography
Limor trained at Bar-DorBalletSchool and TelmaYalinBalletSchool. She joined the Israel Ballet in 1999 with performances including Balanchine’s Serenade, Square Dance and Symphony in C, Cranko’s Onegin, Petipa’s Paquita, Pastor’s Bach Divisions and Gershwin Concerto and Gomez’s Tangoneon. She danced in many of artistic director, Berta Yampolsky’s productions, including Exctasy, The Nutcracker, Coppélia and La Fille mal gardée. In 2001 she toured with the company to China and Finland for the Kuopio Dance Festival. Limor was a finalist in the Mediteranean Mia Arbatova Competition in 2000.
She appeared with Scottish Ballet in Ashley Page’s The Nutcracker in 2003/04 before rejoining the Company in Autumn 2004. She has since appeared in Page’s The Nutcracker, Cinderella (Stepmother), 32 Cryptograms, Fearful Symmetries, The Sleeping Beauty (Carabosse and the Lilac Fairy), Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Apollo, Episodes and Rubies (solo girl), Pastor’s In Light And Shadow and Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet), Ashton’s Façade and Petronio’s Ride the Beast.
Quotes
Pastor's Romeo and Juliet 2008
.Moray Firth Radio, 31st May 2008 – Few could measure up to Limor Ziv as Juliet’s mother.
Page's The Sleeping Beauty (2007-2008)
.Observer, 16 December 2007 – Carabosse (Limor Ziv) and her two mutant daughters (Louisa Hassell and Sophie Laplane) steal the show. Ziv is a dead ringer for Amy Winehouse, hair included, and Hassell and Laplane evince a creepy sexiness.
.Ballet.co.uk, 13 December 2007 – Limor Ziv’s malevolent, sizzling interpretation garners the highest praise of the evening.