Biography

Efrat grew up in Tel Aviv and has lived and worked in Zurich since 2018 as a lecturer of movement in theater at the University of the Arts Zurich. From 2002 until 2018, Efrat worked as a choreographer, dancer, dramaturge, director and teacher in Germany, Poland, and Switzerland.

From 1992 to 1995, she studied at Telma Yelin, and in 2001, she graduated with honors from the Theater Directing program at Tel Aviv University.

From 1996 to 2002, she danced with the Bat-Sheva Ensemble and the Barak Marshall Dance Company and worked with various choreographers in Israel.

In 2002, she joined the Tanzkompanie Oldenburg and MS Schrittmacher, and met the choreographer Martin Stiefermann with whon she has worked as a dancer and as an artistic co-director since 2002 till today. She has participated in various projects, among others: Tandem, Let's Walk Alone, Alice im Wunderland, das Lewskow-Manuskript, Ein Sportstück, Begeben Sie Sich, Anatomie einer Nachricht, Gold, etc.  

In 2006, she founded her own company, Cie Efrat Stempler, with the premiere of her piece Shu Shu at DOCK11 in Berlin.

Between 2006 and 2010, the company has presented four other pieces: Shu Shu Werk, 1,2,3 Sauerfisch Reloaded, Fesgefahren, and ONA. During 2008 and 2010 the company has toured to various international festivals, including the M1 Fringe Festival in Singapore, the Man.in.Fest Theater Festival in Romania, and the Infant Festival in Serbia.

From 2008 to 2018, Efrat also worked as a choreographer for theater works, collaborating with theater directors Wojtek Klemm and Mark Zurmühle on various works, among others: Brotladen, Penthesilea, Zement, die Odesie and Faust 1+2.

In 2009, she founded the label Less Mess with Martin Stiefermann, which focuses on interactive and installation work.

In 2015, she initiated and curated the Fetsival The Smart, the Wicked, the Simple, and the One Who Doesn't Know How to Ask, in Dock11 in Berlin, a festival that brought together artists from Germany, Israel, and Poland. She co-initiated and co-curated the POST- festival at DOCK11 in November 2015.

In 2016 she collaborated with the artist Kirtsen Palz and perfomed her scripts in divers Galleries in Berlin. 

From 2014 to 2015, she collaborated with young adults on various projects at Junge DT in Berlin. In 2020, she directed the piece "#peer günnt" with 42 young adolescents as part of the Education Project in the opera House in Zürich.