About Hagit Abir
Hagit Abir, a graduate of fine arts from the Bezalel Academy and stage design at Shenkar College of Design. Over 12 years has been designing costumes and props for opera, dance, theater and television including : Venice Carnival, Bharati, Bat-Sheva, the Israeli Opera and Habima Theater.
Currently teaching design at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Hagit Abir's designs are a result of diligent work based on an extensive research and intuitive curiosity. Whether it is a dance show, which requires a high degree of ingenuity, a multidisciplinary musical theater piece or a children's theater play, which allows her to create magical visual worlds, for Abir, every design work leads her to embark on a cultural and artistic journey full of new and inspiring insights. The principle aim of her work is to foster a fertile dialogue with the choreographer or the director – engaging in a mutual learning experience, enhancing reciprocal relationships and forming new worlds together.
"What fascinates me in costume design is the intersection of space and the design of the body. For me, it is a pure work of sculpture. When approaching the process of costume design, I think about the movement of the body, the shape that surrounds it and redefines it".
M.raz/Art critic
Selected Design works:
2016-2004
2016 Bharati2-India/ Europe
2014 The Carnival of Venice
The Israeli Opera - Costume design for "Magic Sounds" directed by Nitza Shaul
Costume & Props Production Management for "Alice in Wonderland
Props for-"The Child Dreams" ,"Samson and Delilah" ,"Nabucco","A Journey to the End of the Millennium",Carmen" "Turandot",Madame butterfly"
Batsheva Dance Company - 'about Choreography by Ohad Naharin ,
Mami Shimazaki, Japan and Kristin Inao, Norway.
Ruth Ziv-Eyal- 'Rujum' movement theater
Kolbendance Dance Company - 'Interface', 'Charlie Mandelbaum ','Memorandum'
Choreography by Amir Kolban, jerusalem
Kame'a Dance Company (Bat-Dor) - "Step...Count...." Choreography by Lior Lev
Tel Aviv- Stuttgart, Germany
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company-2B for Pilobolus.
The Israeli Opera - Costume design for "Magic Sounds" directed by Nitza Shaul
Costume & Props Production Management for "Alice in Wonderland
Props for-"The Child Dreams" ,"Samson and Delilah" ,"Nabucco","A Journey to the End of the Millennium",Carmen" "Turandot",Madame butterfly"
Costume design For Art photography by Michal Helbin,Photographer
Beit Lessin Theater - Costume design for "Dolphins",directed by Dedi Baron, Tel Aviv
Habima National Theater,Tel Aviv
Mediatheque Theater for Children
The Orna Porat Theater for Children
TV Commercials
T.V show-The big brother