Collaborations
Oktet
Since 2010, Sigal has been a member of Oktet- an improvisation collective of nine performers from varying backgrounds including theater, Contact iImprovisation, street performance and music. The group has met regularly since 2006 to dance, perform and teach together. Performances include A Moment of Birth created for the Jerusalem festival Kola shel Mila, Interstate created for the Bat Yam Festival for street performance, Present Simple an ongoing full evening performance for theater or studio setting, and The Garden a site specific performance that takes place in children's playgrounds.
Members of Oktet Iris Erez, Sharon Asa Halely, Noam Carmeli, Shlomit Fundaminski, Yuval Goldshtien, Inbal Aloni, Yaniv Mintzer and Philip Smit.
Present Simple | 50 MIN
The garden (day time performance) | 45 MIN
Video: LIU Cheng-hsiang
Dance: Sigal Bergman
In 2024 Sigal was invited to participate in a month-long residency at Villa dei Pini in Bogliasco Italy. As part of her work there she collaborated with visual artist LIU Cheng-hsiang (taiwan) on a dance video. Ocean Rhythms was created with the support of a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship.
An improvised duet created and performed with Yuval Goldstein
Tmuna theater, Tel Aviv, 2012
Since 1995 Sigal collaborated as a dancer with many choreographers. Some of the projects she was part of:
Anat Danieli | Soft Temples, 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yasmeen Goder | Simple Action, 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel
Justin Lynch | Middel of Man, 2009, The Kitchen, NYC
Sally Silvers | Dereamsdocometrue, 2004, Danspace Project, NYC
Osmany Tellez | Out, 2005, Danspace ProjectDescending Matter Landing course, 2004 NYC, DTW, NYC
Alejandra Martorell | The Are Not Falling, 2005, P.S. 122, NYC
Anat shamgar | Summer, 2000, Tmuna theater, Tel Aviv, Israel
Linda Austin | Nightwork, 1996 Arts at University Settlement, NYC
Linda Austin | Pig, 1998, Danspace Project, NYC
Deborah Hay | Lamb at the Altar, 1995, Saint Mark's church NYC