A sign pointing towards Vertigo Dance Company’s studio on Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Hey.
With a wealth of theaters and studios, Tel Aviv and its surroundings serve as the logical home to most of Israel’s choreographers and dance companies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jerusalem is a distant but growing second center. But it’s not only Israel’s urban areas that attract dancers. Scattered across the country’s more rural landscape, three unique dance communities are thriving: the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and Galilee Dance Village in the north, Adama in the desert south, and the more centrally located Vertigo Dance Company.
I ventured out of Tel Aviv to visit each of these company/communities during my initial survey of Israeli contemporary dance, and I will share the sights from my journeys with photo journals. This week we’ll start with my trip to Vertigo Dance Company‘s Eco-Art Village on Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Hey. I first published this photo journal of my trip to the Eco-Art Village on The Winger on May 23, 2008.
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