Gaya Bommer-Yemini

Gaya Bommer-Yemini is a professional dancer and teacher, Youth America Grand Prix winner, and featured artist in Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary First Position.

Class info

Gaya teaches the method developed by her mother, renowned Israeli choreographer Nadine Bommer. This improvisational method is inspired by the endless motion of the sea and split into two core principles: The Body (Kinetica) and The Character (Animato). Kinetica gives dancers a step-by-step process to create a uniquely personal movement language. It cultivates full control of fluid, malleable, and expansive movement using kinetic energy and internal listening. In Bommer’s character work (Animato) this liquidity is used to develop a new, but equally expressive, physicality dependent upon the dancer’s belief in their transformation to a new (stage) being.