Libby Lenkinski on Gaga, Human Rights and Gaga for Human Rights

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I’m slowing down. I’m starting to catch my breath. I wipe a bead of sweat from my forehead, while still jogging lightly in place and tapping my chest. Ohad Naharin, the Artistic Director of Bat Sheva Dance Company is standing on a platform in the middle of a warehouse in Tel Aviv. Read more

Lee Nahat Shalom on And My Heart Almost Stood Still by Ari Teperberg

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When the end catches you by the throat
In utter darkness
Choking a tear
Buttons come undone on a shirt and the heart bursts out- pounding and beating.Read more

Lee Nahat Shalom on Dance for PD with David Leventhal

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The hand is discovered. 
Exhale and inhaling, 
The hand is a brush painting around me
Lines, dots, smears.
The common space became a huge canvas that began as white and turned crowded with layer upon layer of color. Read more

Diti Ronen on Dualism by Ido Gidron

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A ray of light passes between The two.

Presses side to side, head to head, body to body.

In the illusion of gender the struggle becomes clear, what is between her

And him? Between him and her? Between her and her?Read more

Call for Applications: CW + Yasmeen Godder Company- Moving Communities Conference

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Creative Writing and Yasmeen Godder Company present a 3-day writing exploration led by Ori Lenkinski.

A WRITING EXPLORATION AT THE MOVING COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE- JANUARY 17-19 AT THE MANDEL CULTURAL CENTER, JAFFA, ISRAEL. 

We invite writers and artists to apply to spend 3 days thinking, observing, discussing and writing about dance.Read more

Erez Kashi captures Black Velvet by Shamel Pitts and Mirelle Martins

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Erez Kashi captures Shamel Pitts and Mirelle Martins in Black Velvet.Read more

Diti Ronen on Simple Action by Yasmeen Godder

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How simple it is to release

The foreheard the eyebrows the temples

The neck the crown

The mouth the jaws.Read more

Diti Ronen on A Bolero by Didier Theron

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Ravel’s triangle is uneven.
It moves from side to side 
Then forwards and back, reorganizing the space.Read more

Yuval Gal on I See Red by Sahar Azimi

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I see red, I see blue
I understand nude.
Cope and I will too.
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Yuval Gal on Birdy by Lai Hung-Chung

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This couple from Taiwan are incredible. A (certain) technique that is truly grand. I don’t discount it for even a second. I understand the significance of this physicality. It must be said that technique is important, there is nothing like it, it protects the dancer from countless things, moves the dancer and the observer. Technique comes into my body when I use it, sometimes it can become my language, which is not a bad thing. It is something I am aware of. But sometimes it sneaks in like heavy sleep on a long train ride. Read more