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158:(born 3 May 1975) is an Israeli choreographer, dancer and composer based in London. He is the founder and artistic director of the Hofesh Shechter Company.
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Midway through the compulsory three years of his training, he moved to Tel Aviv when he was accepted as a junior into the
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on his eighteenth birthday. He later described this experience as "like an electrical short circuit in my brain".
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in 2009, for an all-female cast. In 2008 he choreographed the dance sequence that opened the second series of
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as a pianist, but switched to dance upon his arrival, taking formal classes in ballet and modern dance.
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in 2003 on an interim with the company. Shechter also composed the music for the production.
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In 2018, Shechter was awarded an honorary OBE in the Queen's
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Whilst still training as a dancer, Shechter was conscripted into the
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Shechter was then commissioned by The Place Prize in 2004 to create
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Shechter graduated to the main company, where he danced in works by
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313:(2012), commissioned by The Barbican, co-staged by Antony Gormley
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