Award winning performer, dancer and director Yael Karavan began a successful acting career at the age of 13 in the National Theatre, television, radio and films in Israel. In 1994 she travelled the world studying and performing with masters  Anton Adassinski (Derevo) and Tadashi Endo.

Her work is often described as visual poetry, Drawing on elements of Butoh, dance, mime, clown, physical and visual theatre she explores the themes of Memory, Metamorphosis, the invisible and the notion of repetitive cycles, intertwining dreamlike atmospheres with a humorous edge.

Since 1999 Yael has been teaching workshops in London at various venues, at Brighton and Reading University, Kinki University of Osaka and the Asbestos Kan studio in Tokyo- Japan,  National Theatre in Israel, as well as in Barcelona, Lisbon, Porto and more.