The thing that most moves me is watching Annabelle reach a kind of peak- presenting work to an audience and the sense of release and ecstasy that come with the process. However, usually I’m not just a viewer rather the technical assistant.Read more
As her sister, and specifically because of the issues Shira chooses to work with (roots, family, origins, etc.), I always feel a particular closeness, an intimacy with the subject of the work, maybe more than other audience members. I’m always really excited to see my little sister on stage- suddenly she’s huge, she creates something so big that touches so many people.Read more
To look again and to stop anticipating what will happen, or for a story to come together and instead to watch while trying to feel the experience and not always understand it. Read more
Daniella’s creation is Nehara — from its initial concept, to its inception to its management, rehearsals,
performances and everything and anything that is involved. Daniella discussed
her initial idea with me, and frankly, I was nervous.Read more
The first time I saw Eyal dancing in a performance was at the end of first year at Kol Atzmotai Tomarna School, and the truth is that it was a pretty tough experience… It was in a small and closed studio in which twelve men had been dancing all day… We sat in a circle around them and, for me, it was way too close and intimate. Since then, I’ve been to many shows. They’ve been moving, exciting, beautiful and something about that intimacy and closeness, about being on stage with the dancers, received new power and refinement for me.Read more
On November 2, the 8th annual Between Heaven and Earth Festival will kick off in Jerusalem. This year’s theme is Intergenerational Transfer. In a very special collaboration between the festival’s director, Ronen Itzhaki, and Creative Writing, we reached out to family members of presenting choreographers. We gave them a short questionnaire and asked that they share their thoughts and feelings about accompanying the choreographer throughout their journey. In the coming days, we will post their answers here.Read more
A WRITING EXPLORATION AT JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL DANCE WEEK
We invite young writers and artists to apply to spend 5 days thinking, observing, discussing and writing about dance.
Moderator of Creative Writing : Ori Lenkinski Read more
At the end of the day, we need that audience more than they need us. Without us, they will continue to run their businesses and serve their civic duties.
Without an audience, our performance art becomes art. Art done alone in a studio or home. And that is not our medium. Our form requires viewers and artists spend a great deal of time, effort and money attempting to ensure that those people will exist. That they will show up. They make our art come alive.
How can one even write about body, movement, language.
To hold something intangible. Fluid. Present-
And in an instant it becomes something different more forceful than what was.Read more
‘Environmental dance,’ is a term used to describe movement which meditates on the human body’s relationship to landscape and the environment. Backley-Astrachan’s dancers personify icy archipelagos, an especially poignant depiction in light of what has been recently coined the ‘anthropocene,’ or the geological age during which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment.Read more