Category: Dance Histories
The Holocaust in Modern Dance: Rami Be’er on “Aide Memoire”
“Aide Memoire” is not only about the Holocaust. It deals with matters relating to present life and reality.
Tel Aviv’s 100th + Suzanne Dellal’s 20th = The Big Stage
Photo of the Big Stage by Ariel Besor. Something big is about to happen. It’s the biggest cultural draw in town from May 14 until June 6th. And fittingly, it’s […]
“Then and Now” Brings Old and New Together at Shades of Dance
Opening a festival devoted to emerging choreographers, “Then and Now” featured excerpts of four dances which, in the days when the festival doubled as a competition, won the coveted first prize.
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.”