Amos Ben-Tal Composer

Born in Israel in 1979, Amos Ben-Tal is a musician, choreographer and artistic director of the OFFprojects collective. After studying classical guitar in his youth, Ben-Tal completed his dance training in 1997 at The National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada. He then moved to Holland where he danced at NDT for nine years, where he also made his debut as choreographer in 2005 with the piece Track for NDT1. In 2006 he left NDT to dedicate himself to developing his own creations. 

Alongside his freelance choreography work, Amos Ben-Tal started the rock band Noblesse, with which he played extensively in the club circuit of The Netherlands. In 2012 he founded OFFprojects, an interdisciplinary collective of former dancers of NDT and Batsheva Ensemble. With his group he created several performances among which 60, Howl (winner Dioraphte Dance Prize) and Interval and PART. 

Amos Ben Tal composes music and text for all of his pieces. As a composer he has also collaborated with such choreographers as Johan Inger, Vaclav Kunes and Edan Gorlicki, and with musicians including Ragazze Quartet, Salvador Breed and Ry-X. In recent years he has developed a particularly strong collaboration with the choreographers Imre & Marne van Opstal, composing music for nearly all of their works to date. 

Amos Ben Tal’s works has been used by companies such as NDT, Rambert, the Ballet of the Opéra de Lyon and Schauspielhaus Bochum.