Category: Israeli Festivals
Info and previews about dance festivals held in Israel.
Dance in the Desert: Shavuot at Adama
Photo: At Adama’s Shavuot festival in 2008, dancers gathered around for an aerial dance workshop. While some dancers and movers will gather at Vertigo Dance Company’s Eco-Art Village for the […]
Celebrating Shavuot through Movement: Hagiga with Bodyways, Vertigo & the Amuta
Photos: The 2009 Hagiga Celebration, including Vertigo Dance Company and choreographers of the Amuta. Studio photos from 2007 festival are by Rivi Nissim and Amos Vinikof. For religious Israelis, the […]
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 […]
Home Port Festival Lures Audiences to Jaffa Port
Located next to a swarm of bobbing fishing boats, this enormous hangar is not your typical destination for a dance performance. Yet the members of the Choreographers Society have lured a mix of devoted dance fans and less seasoned audience members to the Jaffa Port over the last several weeks.
“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.