Oded Ronen
Choreographer, dancer and teacher, member of the Choreographers Association and director of a project company in Israel. Trained in London at The Rambert School, Bodyworks and Laban Centre, danced with CeDeCe companies in Portugal, Colvan Dance, Fresco and Jerusalem Ballet in Israel, and in various projects in Europe, including Dimitri Papioano.
Oded creates using his own movement methodology, Imagery in Motion, (IM), which he teaches at academies and companies worldwide. In addition to his own company, in Israel he has created works for the Jerusalem Ballet, the Bloomfield Science Museum, the Intimate Dance Festival, the Kolben Dance Company, and the Tmuna International Festival. Abroad he has created for the Transitions Company (UK), the WAAPA Academy, the Ochre and Strut Company (Australia), Albania Dance Theatre, Estancias Coreograficas (Spain), the XPATS Project (Switzerland, Netherlands), the Malta International Arts Festival, the Theater Plauen Zwickau and Theater Ulm ballet companies (Germany), and the national companies of Ghana. His works have been performed in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and South America.
The story of Oded Ronen –
From Hell to Mission
Since October 7th, Oded Ronen’s life has been fundamentally transformed. Most of his energy is dedicated to supporting the rebuilding the lives of those directly impacted — first and foremost, the families of the hostages. At the same time, he carries a deep concern for the future of the country, and for the essential need to protect Israeli democracy in this crucial moment.
Following the massacre, Oded joins the creation of the Missing Persons Center at Expo Tel Aviv and leads the “Special Cases” team — a unit that works to locate, investigate, and identify missing individuals, piecing together endless fragments of documentation to determine who is alive, wounded, kidnapped, or murdered.
From this experience emerges The Missings — a powerful dance-theatre work created in Germany with the Tanztheater Ulm ballet company. The work combines world class contemporary dance, documentary elements, recorded conversations, and animation. It brings to the stage the raw journey of reckoning with absence, sorrow, and the desperate attempt to uncover the fate of thousands of missing persons. At its core, it expresses a profound human connection — between volunteers at the center and civilians from the Gaza border whom they've never met.
Alongside the artistic work, Oded embarks on a global outreach journey, sharing both his personal story and the spirit of Israeli civil resilience in testimony meetings with Jewish and Israeli communities in Australia, Colombia, and Argentina.
Throughout these journeys, he touches the hearts of the communities and connects people to values of shared humanity, care for others, and mutual responsibility — precisely in a time of global uncertainty.
Oded works with a method called Imagery in Motion — a unique approach using physical imagery as a tool to bridge deep emotional processing with artistic excellence. The dancers in the company, none of them Israeli, are drawn fully into the story, form together with the viewer an immediate and personal connection to its emotional core.
“If it happened to them – it happened to us. Their fate – is our fate.”
This is not just the feeling while watching the piece.
This has turned into the heartbeat of life.