Limor Ziv

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1) What is your favourite ballet/or role?
Romeo and Juliet and Onegin. I love the music in them both.

 

2) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
I like anything that doesn’t have meat in. I’m Moroccan, Italian and Greek so like I said, anything.

 

3) What made you take up dance as a career?
Got addicted, couldn’t do anything else, like Gene Kelly said in Singing in the Rain, “Gotta Dance".

 

4) What is your greatest extravagance?
Bags

 

5) Who is your hero or heroes?
The Simpsons

 

6) Who would you be on Stars in Your Eyes?
I would be Slash form Guns ‘n’ Roses. I’ve got the perfect hair for it, but then again, he doesn’t really sing.

 

7) If you could be stuck in a lift with anyone, who would it be?
It would have to be someone who will fix the lift and get me out of there. Oh, and he has to be cute.

 

8) What has been your favourite venue to perform in?
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre and the opera house in Tel-Aviv.

 

9) What type of music do you like to unwind to?
It would have to be jazz.

 

10) Who would you like to play you in the film of your life?
Kevin Spacey, I think he’s a good actor and I would like to give him a challenge.

 

11) Do you have any hobbies?
Movies, reading, tennis, martial arts and cooking for friends.

 

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 Ashton’s Façade.  

 

 

Quotes

 

 

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.