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The 2024 Tel Aviv Dance festival taking place in the plaza of the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater (Credit Asia Skorik)
July 29, 2025, 4:01 pm
Movement at Tel Aviv’s annual dance fest reflects a shaken nation
11-day event to be held starting August 6, with performances by premier troupes exploring the traumas and triumphs of life in Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Shavuot celebrations in Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan in 1945 (Credit Yaakov Rosner/KKL-JNF archive)
June 1, 2025, 1:00 pm
Kibbutz marks 80 years of Shavuot song and dance with pioneering artworks
Northern Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan hosts expansive exhibit inspired by the pre-state work of choreographer Leah Bergstein and composer Mattityahu Shelem for the harvest festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Talia Paz, left, Sharon Zuckerman Weiser, Moshe Shechter Avshalom and Tamar Shelef perform 'Four Fathers,' at Suzanne Dellal on April 1 and 2, 2025 (Yair Meyuchas)
March 24, 2025, 3:41 pm
No spring chickens, aging dancers add wrinkle to new ensemble
Group of performers over the age of 40 set to premier original work, ‘Four Fathers,’ at Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
Avshalom Pollak dancer Patrick Dehaan in the new work, 'Castor,' being performed in April 2024 in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Courtesy)
April 9, 2024, 3:10 pm
Choreographer premieres new work in shadow of war
Avshalom Pollak Dance Theatre will perform ‘Castor’ at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
By Jessica Steinberg
Dancers perform a piece by Dalia Davis honoring the families of hostages held in Gaza, at a dress rehearsal prior to the annual Israeli Folkdance Festival of Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Aryeh Blanshay)
March 21, 2024, 1:03 am
In Boston, dancers perform moving homage to families of hostages in Gaza
Israeli folk dance festival at MIT features unique piece by Dalia Davis, as black and gray-clad performers — including a state senator — honor those in Hamas captivity
By Rich Tenorio
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
Sally Ann Friedland (left) and Dana Markus in 'Zebra, A Duet for Two Women' premiering June 24, 2023 at Suzanne Dellal's Studio Zehava & Jack. (Courtesy: Sharon Zindany)
June 23, 2023, 4:09 pm
At 71, a dancer tangos with time for comeback after 30 years
Sally-Anne Friedland, who has been teaching and directing in the interim, returns to choreograph and perform autobiographical ‘Zebra,’ with partner 40 years her junior
By Jessica Steinberg
'Rube G. – The Consequence of Action' is a new dance piece from Jody Oberfelder that's inspired by the Jewish inventor's legendary machines. (Courtesy via JTA)
March 4, 2023, 5:50 am
A Rube Goldberg machine comes to life — literally — in a new dance piece
In ‘Rube G. — the Consequence of Action,’ running March 4-19 in NYC’s Gibney Dance Center, choreographer Jody Oberfelder examines the predictability and chaos of human interaction
By Mikhal Weiner
From Germany's Hanover Ballet's performance of 'The Lover,' coming to The Israeli Opera on March 2-4, 2023. (Courtesy Ralf Mohr)
February 21, 2023, 8:28 pm
Ballet whose director threw dog poo at critic to perform in Israel
Hanover Ballet will perform Marco Goecke’s ‘The Lover’ at opera house in Tel Aviv, although choreographer himself has been fired following incident
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
Choreographer and Angela Dance Co. artistic director Miriam Engel brings the Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival, September 6-8 to Hansen House (Courtesy Ryland Beka)
September 1, 2022, 2:04 pm
Jerusalem dance troupe stages solo creations at upcoming festival
Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival focuses on the individual at September event
By Jessica Steinberg
Vertigo Dance Troupe will perform 'Birth of the Phoenix' on June 15, 2022 in honor of its 30th anniversary (Courtesy Yoel Levi)
June 14, 2022, 11:33 am
Dance troupe Vertigo marks 30 years of contemporary choreography
The Jerusalem-founded group will celebrate with three days of performances and a summertime exhibit at Beit Guvrin
By Jessica Steinberg
Germany's Ballett Dortmund will perform in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa on June 8-14, 2022 (Courtesy Ballett Dortmund)
May 31, 2022, 4:32 pm
Germany’s Dortmund dancers in Israel after 2-year delay
‘It’s an inspiration for our dancers to travel to Tel Aviv,’ director Tobias Ehinger says of the troupe’s long-awaited tour
By Jessica Steinberg
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