Nir de Volff was born and raised in Israel, started dancing at the professional school Bat Dor in Tel Aviv which relate with the Royal Ballet Academy of London.De Volff danced in several companies in Tel Aviv, and created at the Suzanne Dellal center his first piece at the age of 23. He also performed as a guest in Pina Bausch’s Viktor during her Israeli tour.
De Volff grounded TOTAL BRUTAL in 2007. Since then the work is to be seen worldwide. In Germany he has created and collaborate few times with the performance group She She Pop at HAU Berlin, Katarina Numminen at Volksbühne Berlin and David Hermann at Frankfurt Oper Frankfurt am Main.In 2014 He created movements for Small Town Boy by Falk Richter at Maxim Gorki Theater and collaborated on the show NEVER FOREVER with the theater director Falk Richter at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.