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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

Batsheva Dance Company

Ohad Naharin, center, teaching a Gaga class, the body movement concept that he created. (Courtesy Gaga)
June 5, 2025, 1:02 am
Montreal dance studio joins Israel boycott, drops classes in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga technique
The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’
By Grace Gilson
From Oded Ronen's dance work titled 'The Missings,' being performed in Ulm, Germany, March and April 2024 (Courtesy)
March 15, 2024, 1:15 pm
Dances with wolves: A Tel Aviv choreographer forces audiences to face Oct. 7’s horrors
Oden Ronen’s ‘The Missings’ looks at the Supernova rave massacre, while a piece by Hillel Kogan dances around the topic altogether to focus on those behind the Batsheva troupe
By Jessica Steinberg
'Bliss' by New York's Gibney Company is one of the pieces they'll perform during their March 1-2, 2023 performances in Israel. (Courtesy PR)
February 20, 2023, 10:21 pm
New York’s Gibney Company comes to dance in Israel
The dance troupe has a long history of collaborating with international artists, and Israeli choreographers are among their favorites
By Jessica Steinberg
Octogenarian dancer Rina Schenfeld dances the seasons in 'In My Room,' premiering January 6 and 7, 2023. (Courtesy PR)
January 1, 2023, 1:12 pm
Octogenarian Rina Schenfeld dances like a child in 2 new pieces
Veteran dancer premieres a solo choreographed to Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons,’ a performance by her dance group to the lyrics of poet Meredith Monk
By Jessica Steinberg
Rina Schenfeld, Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino will perform 'Date' on May 19, 2022 (Courtesy PR)
May 19, 2022, 12:03 pm
Veteran dancer Rena Schenfeld performs with 2 partners in ‘Date’
The 84-year-old choreographer and former prima ballerina, who usually dances solo, goes for a collaborative creation
By Jessica Steinberg
Batsheva dancers in 'Purple Fugue,' choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, being performed March 18-23, 2022 (Courtesy Ascaf)
March 16, 2022, 2:47 pm
Two dancers return to Batsheva as (temporary) choreographers
Couple Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, who met in the renowned Tel Aviv dance troupe and left, are staging a comeback
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Summer Snow' by Ella Rothschild, part of a trilogy that includes a dance work, website and illustrated book, created for the Batsheva Dance Company in 2021 (Courtesy Ascaf 12)
December 21, 2021, 10:51 am
Choreographer says: You’ve seen the dance. Now, ‘read’ the book
Dancer and storyteller Ella Rothschild’s trilogy of works sees performance of ‘Summer Snow’ by Batsheva troupe followed up by a website that sets the scene, and an illustrated book
By Jessica Steinberg
Daniel Kolben with her father, famed choreographer and dancer Amir Kolben, ahead of their new work for the Israel Festival, being performed June 9, 2021 (Courtesy Relly Avrahami)
May 27, 2021, 10:40 pm
Dancer, musician daughter explore family wounds at Israel Fest
Amir and Daniel Kolben will perform in Inspirational Connections, a festival event celebrating Israel’s multidisciplinary creativity
By Jessica Steinberg
From Deca Dance, outdoor performances by Batsheva Dance Company's youth ensemble at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua park at the end of May 2021 (Courtesy Askaf)
May 12, 2021, 8:33 pm
Batsheva brings youth ensemble outside, for Deca Dance
Three nights of outdoor performances in Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua
By Jessica Steinberg
From ON by Adi Salant for the Fresco Dance Company, premiering in Tel Aviv on May 11, 2021 (Courtesy Efrat Mazor)
May 4, 2021, 6:00 pm
Back onstage, dance troupes work out the anxieties of the last year
Fresco and Batsheva dance companies premiere new works after a long period of quiet creativity
By Jessica Steinberg
Dancer and choreographer Rina Schenfeld from her new work, 'The Diary, Part 2,' to be performed at her Tel Aviv studio on March 11 and 12, 2021 (Courtesy Dovrat Asulin)
March 10, 2021, 11:43 am
Veteran choreographer dances through pandemic, but craves the stage
Rina Schenfeld, Israel’s modern dance muse, now 83, realizes she still needs an audience — but is forging a new relationship with it
By Jessica Steinberg
Choreographer Ella Rothschild will unveil 'Pigulim' online at Tel Aviv Dance on September 16, 2020, as part of the annual festival's new online program (Courtesy Efrat Mazor)
September 10, 2020, 1:46 am
Tel Aviv Dance goes online with nine premieres
Suzanne Dellal Center promotes choreographers’ works with eight-day festival on the web
By Jessica Steinberg
Imre van Opstal, a Batsheva dancer, in a video recorded along with her siblings who are also dancers, each in a spot in nature, as part of the Batsheva Creates Online Festival (Courtesy Imre van Opstal)
May 14, 2020, 7:50 pm
Batsheva dancers bring new creations online
Digital festival will feature 25 different performances by the popular dance troupe
By Jessica Steinberg
A Gaga class from 2019 (Courtesy Ascaf)
April 14, 2020, 10:58 am
Israeli movement language Gaga draws thousands with daily online classes
The body language style created by choreographer Ohad Naharin is finding new fans during the coronavirus crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
Street musicians performing at last year's 6th Night Festival in Tel Aviv's Neve Shaanan neighborhood (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
January 5, 2020, 5:36 pm
Tel Aviv street festival embraces cultural diversity
The 6th Nightlight Festival brings forth the cuisines, music and arts of the diverse Neve Sha’anan neighborhood
By Jessica Steinberg
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