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Guy Weizman (born 1973) is artistic and general director of the Noord Nederlands Toneel and has a distinctive, highly physical performance style in which he combines diverse disciplines into a total experience.
Since 2017, Guy Weizman (born 1973) has been at the head of both the Noord Nederlands Toneel and international dance company Club Guy & Roni, which he founded with Roni Haver in 2002, from his base in De Machinefabriek theatre in Groningen. The two companies, combine under the name NITE (National Interdisciplinary Theatre Ensemble), put on large-scale, interdisciplinary shows in the Netherlands and abroad.
Weizman grew up in a Jewish-Moroccan family and has lived and worked in Groningen for more than 20 years. He started his career as a dancer with Bat-Sheva Ensemble.
Weizman stands out for his highly physical performance style, in which he combines dance, fashion, music, text, video, form and content into a total experience in which all disciplines have an equal role. Newspaper de Volkskrant wrote of him: ‘After Salam, Weizman once again shows himself to be a master of montage: he is able to successfully juggle the numerous components of a large, spectacular musical theatre production and as well as dance. That overflowing theatre cocktail makes him unique as a director in the Netherlands.’
Weizman's unique approach is appreciated: his debut performance with Noord Nederlands Toneel’s Carrousel was nominated for the Mimeprijs and he received the Regieprijs for directing from the Nederlandse Toneeljury in 2018 for Salam.