Ariel Cohen is a performer, performance creator, and visual artist. He danced with The Batsheva Ensemble and created works for Intimidance and Curtain Up. For almost a decade, Cohen has been collaborating with Ohad Naharin, and was involved in the creation of Sadeh21 (2011) and The Hole (2013) (for which he also designed the costumes), Last Work (2015), Venezuela (2017), 2019 (2019), he was co-creator in MOMO (2021) and Assistant to Costume Designer in Anafaza 2023.  Cohen attended Rakefet Levy’s Design School for Performing Arts and took part in various fashion and styling projects. He joined Batsheva Dance Company as a dancer in the 2013-2014 season. Before Batsheva, he danced with different companies throughout Europe. His work is versatile, and as an artist he often explores movement and its extensive range of iterations and manifestations in the arts. Over the years he has experimented with different movement methods – classical ballet, modern ballet, contemporary dance, stage art, performance and more. Since 2009 he has been creating working as an independent choreographer and collaborating with various artists, including Osnat Kellner, Shani Granot, Nevo Romano and more. 

Avi Yona Bueno, also known as Bambi, began his career as a lighting designer for rock concerts. He has designed shows for leading Israeli singers and bands including Ofra Haza and Rita as well as for international stars including Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, and Chick Corea. In the 1980s, Bambi moved to London, where he worked for the Pink Floyd lighting company and Britannia Row Productions. He also designed the lighting for Meatloaf and toured Europe with popular artists including The Cure, The Commodores, and the Thompson Twins.   Upon his return to Israel, Bambi began designing for the theater. He worked with prestigious repertory theaters such as the Cameri Theatre and the Habima National Theatre as well as fringe and experimental theater productions. Bambi currently serves as the resident lighting designer for the Gesher Theatre and the avant-garde Itim Theatre Ensemble, founded by Rina Yerushalmi. He has been widely acclaimed for his impact on the field of lighting design in theater and has been honored with numerous awards including the 1995 Moshe Halevi Tel Aviv Prize for transforming lighting design in Israel into an art form. In 2011 Bambi received the Theatre Award for Best Lighting category for Gesher Theatre’s production of Six Characters in Search of an Author.  In 1992, Bambi began designing for dance. At Batsheva Dance Company, where he is Resident Lighting Designer, he has designed lighting for all of Ohad Naharin’s works. He has also designed for Sharon Eyal’s Love, Quiet Village, Bertolina, and Makarova Kabisa. In addition to his role in Batsheva, Bambi has designed for renowned international dance companies such as the Cullberg Ballet, Carte Blanche, Nederlans Dans Theater, Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.  Bambi’s lighting has also illuminated numerous operas, musicals, stadium productions, television productions, museum installations, and architectural projects, as well as the Israeli Opera productions in Masada – Nabucco (2010) and Aida (2011). He is in the process of developing his Tel Aviv studio for creating lighting installations. 

Eri Nakamura was born in Japan in 1984. In 2002 she graduated from The Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. During the years 2003-2007 she danced with Victor Ullate Ballet Company in Madrid and later, from 2007 to 2008, with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montreal in Canada, under the artistic direction of Gradimir Pankov. Eri Danced with Batsheva between 2011-2015 and designed the costumes for Last Work (2015), And Still by Danielle Agami (2015), Yag (2016) Venezuela (2017), 2019 (2019) and MOMO (2022).