Michael Getman is Dora and Zechariah's second son, who immigrated to Israel from Soviet Leningrad after a failed plane hijacking by young Jewish dissidents to escape the USSR in 1970 -" Operation Wedding."

Michael holds an M.A. degree from the University of Huddersfield, England.

Since his return to Israel in 2005, Getman has developed his work and choreographic tools. He examines and is curious about the relationship between our bodily actions, cognitive responses, the particular and the abstract, and the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with a range of physical arousal and emotions.

He is commissioned to create and share artistic experiences utilizing various choreographic expressions. His works have been presented in multiple festivals and venues, including the Israel Museum, Suzanne Dellal Center, Graz Opera House, Schauspielhaus, Hamburg; Age On Stage, Stockholm; Holland Dance Festival, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris; Springboard Dance Montreal, Nowy Teater, Warsaw; Belgrade Dance Festival; Open Look, St.Petersburg; Festival Internazionale Fuori, Rome; HangarTfest, Pesaro; Festival Gender Bender, Bologna; WhiteBox Artspace, N.Y.C., among others.

Getman occasionally works in Theatre and Ethnography, researching and facilitating artistic expression with various communities and cultures. Currently, he is involved with the "Songs and Borders" project, an Israeli-Norwegian-German co-production tracing the liturgy, hymns, and traditional texts of the cultures and minorities in northern Israel, in collaboration with the Neue Vocalsolisten ( Stuttgart) and the composer Daniel Peter Biro.

Michael teaches seminars and workshops for Bachelor's and Master's programs in leading institutions and dance centers in Israel and abroad: ZHdk ( Zurich), Chapman University (L.A.), Artez ( Arenhaim), Waapa, (Perth, Australia), Codarts ( Rotterdam), Kibbutzim College (Tel Aviv), Maslool (Tel Aviv) and more.

He began his education in a small living room with his grandmother, followed by the ballet master Rose Kassell at the Bat Dor School of Dance, directed by Mrs. Jennette Ordman.

His professional dancing career started with an invitation from Naomi Perlov to join the Batsheva ensemble. After a year, he was invited to join the leading company. He had the opportunity to develop his skills and artistry, mainly with the Batsheva dance company ( Israel) and the Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly ( Germany). As a dancer, he was privileged to learn and interpret works by choreographers like Ohad Naharin, Amanda K Miller, Marguerite Donlon, and William Forsythe.

He has been awarded choreographic prizes at the international choreography contests:

- 2008 'Cross Connection Ballet,' Denmark.

- 2014 International Choreographic competition 'No Ballet,' Germany.