It’s another jam-packed day of dance-watching!

Like Day 2 of International Exposure, Day 3 features two programs from the 2008 Curtain Up Festival.  We’ll start our day at 2:00 p.m. with Curtain Up 4:  Tomer Sharabi’s Monk, Hillel Kogan’s Everything, and Maya Stern’s Black Sea. At 5:00, Michael Getman’s Monday and Maya Levi’s Lifeline from Curtain Up 2 will complete the showings from this annual festival of premieres.

In between these two concerts, we’ll take an inside look into the Batsheva Dance Company.  We’re invited to Studio Varda for an open rehearsal of Ohad Naharin’s Project 5, a work for five women that premiered in July.

The evening is full of options for adventurous International Exposure attendees.  Across town at the Cameri Theater, Galia Fradkin’s La Mariposa is playing at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m.  At 8:00 and again at 10:00 p.m., Noa Dar’s Tetris will transform the choreographer’s central Tel Aviv studio into a most unusual performance space.  And at the Suzanne Dellal Center, Studio A will be the venue for the Acco Dance Center’s showing of Simon Rowe’s Welcome to Valhalla! at 8:30 p.m.

The Choreographers Society will host a reception at 9:00, which will no doubt be a welcome break before a 10:00 p.m. concert of four more works.  The Tel Aviv Dance Company will perform part of Ya’ara Dolev and Amit Goldenberg’s Tokyo Oranges, while the Nadine Bommer Dance Company will offer an excerpt from Bommer’s Manimation. Mami Shimazaki’s Chiki, Chiki 123 and Elina Pechersky’s Elina’s Muses round out the last program of the day.

See below for more videos and links.

(Video: Nadine Bommer’s Manimation)

(Video: Noa Dar’s Tetris)

Related Articles on Dance In Israel

• “Israel’s Curtain Up Festival: ‘Another Op’ning, Another Show’ for Contemporary Dance”
• “Noa Dar’s ‘Tetris’ – Shaping the Space”
• ” ‘Mamootot’: Challenging the Performer-Spectator Divide” (re: Batsheva)
• “Getting to Know the Batsheva Ensemble”
• “Gaga: Ohad Naharin’s Movement Language, in His Own Words”

Links to Companies and Choreographers

• Batsheva Dance Company
• Nadine Bommer
• Noa Dar
• Galia Fradkin
• Ya’ara Dolev and Amit Goldenberg
• Michael Getman
• Hillel Kogan
• Maya Levi
• Elina Pechersky
• Simon Rowe
• Mami Shimizaki
• Maya Stern and Tomer Sharabi

Other Useful Links

• Dance In Israel’s International Exposure coverage – full series
• Dance In Israel’s Links page – links to companies, choreographers, and more
• Cameri Theatre
• Choreographers Society
• Suzanne Dellal Center