Month: March 2009
Call for Help: Speaking about Dance in Israel in the U.S.
Speaking about dance in Israel to a group of tourists, March 2008. Photo by Marilyn Friedes. As you know by now, I have a passion for writing about dance in […]
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company: From the Galilee Dance Village to the World
Whereas most world-renowned dance companies embark on major foreign tours from their home country’s cosmopolitan cities, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company is launching its travels from a village: the Galilee Dance Village, located on Kibbutz Ga’aton in northern Israel.
Dancing Through the Intifada: Yasmeen Godder’s “Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder”
In 2004, Yasmeen Godder focused her artistic lens squarely on the conflict in her country – and specifically on the tragic images flooding the media – in “Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder.”
Viewing an Israeli Vision with Diasporic Eyes: A Look at Renana Raz’s “We Have Been Called to Go”
For me, the power of the first moment in “We Have Been Called to Go” is sustained throughout the entire work, and I imagine that if I was an Israeli, it might have been an even more powerful viewing experience.