NO/ (2023)
Series of fragmented, disjointed cuts, tension between internal resistance and the weight of external demands.
As a Ukrainian-Israeli, the piece speaks to the moral struggle of refusing war. embodying the exhaustion and helplessness that come from resisting.
Piano Dancer: Maya Schwartz
Camera: Ina Gorodeva
Special thanks to Larret en mouvements, France.
Duration: 5:23
The lowest place on Earth (2019)
A body balancing on a thin crust of salt, above uncertain water.
This work reflects on the illusion of stability.
Filmed at the Dead Sea – the lowest place on Earth
Music: Marc Ribot
Video: Thomas Schlijper
Dance: Maya Schwartz
Duration: 2:02
DOM (2024)
Supported by Rabinovich foundation, SVT, Keshet Makers space (NM)
This work navigates the layered experience of war, external and internal. It moves through personal and political geographies: Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, my home.
Where does the body end, and the territory begin?
In conflict, is the body still ours or does it become a vessel for forces beyond itself
Stillness as resistance.
Choreography: Maya Schwartz
Music: Zohar Hovav
Camera: Daniel Pakes
Supported by Rabinovich foundation
Duration: 15 minutes
Moozar / along the road
The Netherlands, Amsterdam (2022)
Alongside a rural road. Cows graze, uninterested, until slowly,
one by one, they rise and turn to look.
Voice: Marina Abramovich
Dance: Maya Schwartz
Camera: Thomas Schlijper
Duration: 3:52
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The Netherlands, Amsterdam (2022)
Shot on a trampoline, this video engages with the culture of beauty and the pursuit of perfection.
In the brief moments of weightlessness, the body seems to defy gravity, capturing an illusion of flawless form. But as the descent begins, the pull of gravity reveals the reality: the softening cheeks, the subtle shift from youth to age.
This work explores the tension between societal ideals of beauty and the natural, inevitable process of aging. It questions how we can approach our changing bodies with objectivity-seeing imperfection as an essential part of the human experience.
Dance: Maya Schwartz
Music: Yehezkel Raz
Camera: Thomas Schlijper
Duration: 6:02
All the impossible (2023)
This underwater video focuses on what lies beneath the visible.
The mover’s head remains unseen, only the body, submerged in cold water. The surface may show calm, even a smile, while below, there is tension, struggle, a quiet collapse.
This work explores the unseen forces that shape our behavior, our resilience, and our ability to function.
Dedicated to my family in Ukraine, who continue to endure the silent, ongoing impact of war.
Shot by Yale Gazit
Music by Yehezkel Raz
Filmed in Larret, France
Duration: 3:29
NoThing (2021)
Supported by the Tel Aviv Municipality and Fresco Dance Company
Trailer of the full-length piece
A solo work exploring the tension between disappearance and presence, between costumes.
Through shifting layers- textiles, emotions, movement
the piece reflects on what remains when everything else falls away.
Improvised with live musician Yehazkel Raz.
Inspired by the writings of Yaakov Raz and research by Dani Raveh, the work questions whether transcendence is a form of depth- or a subtle act of denial.
Diration: 30 minutes
Nothing at all (2021)
A quiet scene, set in the repetition of morning.
where the simplest acts of functioning begin to fail.
Sitting, dressing, beginning the day: nothing holds.
What emerges is a portrait of exhaustion and internal chaos
where performing the everyday becomes an impossible task.
ALATA (2023)
Supported by Rabinovich foundation, Dance center Menashe.
Trailer of the full-length piece
You and I – Temporary
A trailer for a full-length piece by Maya Schwartz and Shachar Dolinsky.
Rooted in Zen Buddhist thought, this duet moves between two ideas: impermanence, and the absence of a fixed self.
Everything shifts, form, presence, identity.
What seems stable dissolves.
Through the body, these concepts lived, revealing the quiet instability beneath what we think of as "me" and "you."
Duration: 25 minutes
Chase Steps (2023)
A solo dance work on roller skates
Trailer
A performative solo on wheels, exploring grief, fantasy.
The work examines the elongation of the body in motion.
The roller skates serve a liberation and constraint.
They allow escape from gravity, but also resist control..
Camera: Ariel Spiegel
Duration: 20 minutes
I cry things I don't know (2025)
supported by Keshet makers program (NM, US)
Trailer of the piece
The choreography lives in a state of limbo: between urgency and helplessness, between the wish to act and the paralysis of disbelief.
What happens to the body when caught between personal grief and collective trauma.
How do we process what I don’t fully understand?
Duration: 15 minutes
Music by Michele Marchesani
Primal Feelings (2024)
in collaboration with Judi Adini
Supported by Mifal Hapais, Yael association and Zuzima- Mitzpe Ramon
A large woman stands at the edge of a border.
Whom is she calling for?
How long will she manage to stand her ground?
What will break her spirit?
Where will she go when her legs give out?
This is a duet of extremes- an attempt to cover both the dominant and the unprocessed.
To cast a safe shore in whatever can still be held onto:
a story that once was, a piece of fabric, a wig, another body.
Dancers and creators: Judi Adini and Maya Schwartz
Video by: Omer Messinger
La Passionyard (2022)
An afternoon in owr past.
Camera and edit: Lam Son Nguyen
dancers: Shahar Seri, Jonathan Amir, Maya Schwartz
Duration: 2:45