Education
2024 – Present
School of Visual Theater (SVT), Jerusalem
Interdisciplinary Arts Program
2024
Auroville Film Institute, Tamil Nadu, India
Documentary Filmmaking Program
2024
Ashtanga Yoga, Vrinda, Kerala, India
300H Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training
2020 – 2021
Zuzima Studio Mitzpe Ramon
One-Year Program in Performance and Dance
2015 – 2018
BPM College, Tel Aviv
Full Program in Electronic Music Production
2011 – 2014
Ironi Alef High School, Ashkelon
Majors in Theatre and Computer Science
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Yoni (Yonatan) Vell was born in 1996 in Jerusalem. He grew up between Jerusalem and Ashkelon, where he developed an early connection to the arts through music, movement, and performance. He studied piano and ballet from a young age, and later majored in Theatre and Computer Science at Ironi Alef High School.
He also spent significant time in Lithuania during his childhood, an experience that deepened his connection to nature and atmosphere, elements that continue to inform his artistic language.
After traveling abroad at age 18, he began his military service, where he trained and served as an EMT instructor for novices. Following his service, he decided to pursue the arts professionally and studied music production at BPM College in Tel Aviv, completing the school’s full two-year program. He later began releasing music independently.
During the COVID-19 period, Yoni relocated to the Negev desert, where he attended Zuzima’s full-year intensive program in performance art and dance. There, he expanded his practice into live performance and filmmaking. During this period, he released his first album, Healing in Process, and his first short film, Maybe Sinai.
Following the events of October 7, he chose to continue his artistic and personal development abroad. In India, he completed an intensive Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Course. A few months later, he joined the Auroville Film Institute’s documentary filmmaking program, where he studied with Debkamal Ganguly and Richa Hushing.
During this time, he created the short documentary Sound of a Land and several video essays, including works on Phyang Monastery, the Changthang nomads, and Tar Village.
Yoni currently studies interdisciplinary arts at the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. In his first year there, he created the multidisciplinary work Fire, Fire, for which he choreographed, directed, designed, and composed the music and sound. Alongside his own projects, he has also created music and sound design for various artists, including Avigayil Rose and Moksha Kashani.
