Sharon Reshef Armony

Position: Director

I am a practitioner, director, and researcher based in London, specializing in intermedial performance that interacts video and physical theatre. I explore the perception of mediation through my ScreenStage Performance practice and research.

In my work with practitioners, scholars and students I look into today’s most pressing challenge: our relationships with artificial technologies and with the virtual realms.

I am a senior lecturer at academic institutions in Israel and in Europe, specializing in dance research, movement notations, intermedia and performance-making. I’m currently a guest lecturer at the Dance Division of the Music Academy in Katowice Poland.

I completed successfully my PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University London (2023), researching and creating my ScreenStage Performance practice by PaR methodology.

My thesis applies semiotic and phenomenological viewpoints, exploring mine, as well as others’ hybrid live-virtual immersive performance, providing valuable insight into transmedial narration, performance making and analysis.

I was the former Head and artistic director of the School of Dance of the Arts Faculty at the Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv (2007-2014). For many years I’ve been a physical theatre practitioner, as well as a dancer-researcher of the RikudNetto dance and research group.

We’re honoured to have Sharon Reshef Armony as our Artistic Director. She is a practitioner, director and researcher of ScreenStage performance, and has been a practitioner in the fields of physical theatre, performance, and film for 30 years.

Sharon saw Learning in the online “reading” version, and was struck by the accuracy, courage, and suggestion of it. Being immersed in the contents, she’s now looking for minimalist / poetic movement metaphors, embedded in the texts and the music.