Niv was born in Israel. He is the Artistic Director of the Bikurei Ha’Itim Dancer Training Program in Tel Aviv.
Niv has worked as a rehearsal director with numerous dance companies, including Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch, the Berlin Opera, the Royal Danish Ballet, Dresden-Frankfurt Dance Company, BANCH (Chile), the Lucerne Theatre, the Israeli Opera, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), L-E-V Dance Company – Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and others.
In addition, he has worked as an assistant to choreographers and creators including Roy Assaf, Saar Magal, Michael Getman, Idan Sharabi, On Yamada, and others. Over the years, Niv has been invited as a guest lecturer to universities and academies such as Codarts in Rotterdam, ArtEZ in Arnhem, ACArts in Adelaide, WAAPA in Perth, and others.
Niv completed his master’s studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Together with researcher Dr. Vered Aviv, he co-authored the article “Dancers’ Somatic of Musicality,” published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology in 2019.
He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Professor Ruth HaCohen. His research explores the relationship between music and movement in dance works from the late twentieth century, focusing on the dancing body’s response to rhythmic and melodic elements.
His research seeks to reveal how choreographers use choreomusical relationships to express artistic ideas. Through an aesthetic-phenomenological approach, his work proposes a method for temporal analysis that integrates knowledge from the fields of musicology, perception, kinetics, and choreomusicology.
