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Born in Tel Aviv, Itzik had his only exposure to dance in its traditional folk form. His interest grew, and he later joined the Bat Dor Company and the Batsheva Dance Company. He had entered a professional art world in which he would later be described as a "master architect of space and timing of bodies" (Dance Europe).
Itzik choreographed his first piece, Double Time, in 1990, and later that year he was awarded the originality prize in the Gvanim International Choreographers Competition, for his creation The Old Cartoon. He came to international attention in 1992, when The Butterfly Effect won the public's prize at the International Competition for Choreographers in the Netherlands. In 1994, after only four years of choreographic experience, Galili was awarded the Phillip Morris Art Price for his Contribution to Dutch Culture. These three achievements were the beginning of a choreographic career which would eventually involve over forty original works, such as Between L.... (1995), Until with/out Enough (1998), The Drunken Garden (1999), Beautiful You (1999), Things I told Nobody (2000), For Heaven's Sake (2001), See Under X (2003).
Itzik's work has been performed by prominent dance companies throughout the world, including The Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Gulbenkian Ballet, Ballet du Grand Théater de Geneve, Batsheva Dance Company, Stuttgarter Ballett and Les Grand Ballet Canadiens.
He received the prestigious bi-annual Dutch Choreography Award 2002 for his long-term contribution to dance in the Netherlands, joining the list of prestigious winners which includes Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylían and Krisztina de Châtel.
Itzik Galili continues to choreograph because he has not yet found a reason to stop. He claims that "we are all lunatics but we think we are not".