Ms. Shezaf has gained an acclaimed
international career as Flamenco dancer, teacher and choreographer. She has
accumulated numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the `sharet
fund` award, a scholarship by the Government of
Spain, and the 1991 `Wandering Top –hat` award
from the `Omanut la`am` institution. She
performed with the Mario Maya’s Gypsy Dance
Company in Spain and in the Lincoln
center in New York, and with Rafael
Aguilar`s company in Italy. She also performed
in a number of `Tablaos` - tradition
Flamenco taverns – in Madrid, Mexico and Japan, and in festivals in Andalusia,
homeland of Flamenco.
Next
to that she performed with in a Israeli-Spanish collaboration together with Laura
Toledo, a show which recreates the Jewish culture in Spain. She staged three
company performances: `patio Andaluse`,` Tiempo Flamenco`and `Yamada`
in the Suzan Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. She performed with different
actors, poets and musicians, for example, in collaboration with the Reflex
Ensemble, which was shown during the `Curtain Up Dance Festival`,
1998. Together with contemporary musician Karen Rosenbaum, the Reflex
Ensemble also performed in the Tel-Aviv performing Arts Center.
In Israel, Ms shezaf staged two solo shows: `Longings`
and `Flamenco`, in the Suzan Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv, and was solo
dancer with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and the
National Chamber Orchestra, dancing `El Amor
Brujo`. She performed as `Carmen’s Destiny` in the Valoni Opera House`s
production of `Carmen`, in Belgium, France and in the Massimo Theater
in Palermo, Italy. And also toured Italy as a solo Artist. Ms shezaf runs a
Flamenco school and dance company, and teaches in Tel-Aviv, Madrid and Italy.