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Ella Rothschild was born in Israel in 1984. Rothschild is a choreographer, multi-disciplinary artist, and a dancer. Rothschild has danced with Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, and Batsheva Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin. Currently, Rothschild is dancing for Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot. Since 2010, Rothschild has been creating her own works in collaboration with various artists from different disciplines. Rothschild received the Rosenblum Performing-Arts Award by the city of Tel-Aviv for promising creator of 2016, as well as the ministry cultural award. In 2017 she received the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for the best solo performer. Her works include: Acord, 12 Postdated Checks, Judah, Jesus with Soy, Sal, Flood, Dood, IMO the mouth is redundant, Feed, Timeline, Futuristic Space, Unpair, and Formula which premiered in the playhouse in Japan in 2022.
In 2020 Ella received a residency at Baryshnikov art center (NYC) and was named an artist in residence in the Suzanne Dellal Centre’s inaugural residency program where she created her new work Pigulim. In 2021 Ella created a trilogy of artworks for the Batsheva Dance Company: Summer snow, on the edge of nowhere, and A Year Without Summer. In 2023 Rothschild created Milk Teeth, as part of Kammerballetten festival in Copenhagen and created for the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen a new creation for Stravinsky music Petrushka, which premiered on the past December.