Shira Kagan-Shafman

Shira Kagan-Shafman is a New York based dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. She has performed in works throughout theaters and museums in New York including, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Poster House museum, Arts on Site, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts and Green Space. She was a recipient of the 2023 B. Wilson Foundation grant for which she produced, choreographed and performed in a production at Baryshnikov Arts Center in the John Cage and Merce Cunningham studio and was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Mother’s Milk.

Kagan-Shafman has had the pleasure of performing in works by Joanna Kotze, Mariana Valencia, Peggy Florin, Caitlin Corbett, Kelley Donovan, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Dean Moss, Rebecca Stenn, jess pretty and the Aston Magna Music Festival. In 2021, she participated in Arts on Site Residency in process for her work, To Breathe Over Seas, which premiered in December 2021. She received her BA in Dance from the New School and spent a semester studying in Israel through DanceJerusalem. There she trained in Gaga and danced in Ohad Naharin repertory, including sections of Sadeh 21, Mamootot, Hora and Last Work along with performing in new works by Roni Chadash and Noa Zuk.

Her work often involves multidisciplinary collaborations including partnering with visual artists and sound artists. With longtime collaborator and violinist, Leandria Lott, her piece, Anchor in Continuum, premiered at Poster House museum and has been restaged at Triskelion Arts and Green Space.