Born in 1981 in New Jersey, Deborah trained at the American Repertory Ballet’s Princeton Ballet School. After receiving her BA from Brown University and her MFA from The Ohio State University, she researched Israeli contemporary dance on a Fulbright grant. Since moving to Tel Aviv in 2008, Deborah founded danceinisrael.com; wrote the book Contemporary Dance in Israel; taught dance history for the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance’s DanceJerusalem program; and published articles in newspapers, magazines, and academic volumes. Her article, “Gaga: Moving beyond Technique with Ohad Naharin in the Twenty-First Century,” appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Dance Chronicle.
Deborah became a Gaga teacher in 2012 through the inaugural Gaga teacher training program and joined Gaga’s administrative team in 2009, where she currently serves as head of foreign affairs.
