The Israeli choreographer, dancer and composer Hofesh Shechter trained with the Batsheva Dance Company and later studied music in Paris while playing drums in a rock band. He moved to London to perform with the Jasmin Vardimon Company in 2002. His award-winning 2004 piece, Cult – featuring Shechter in a gorilla outfit – was a dark look at the shadowy forces in society that shape us, with a doomy, dense soundtrack also composed by Shechter. In 2008, he formed Hofesh Shechter Company, currently resident at the Brighton Dome. His acclaimed 2010 piece, Political Mother, a large-scale work exploring totalitarianism, was staged at London’s Brixton Academy in 2015. Shechter has also worked as a choreographer in theatre, television and opera.
