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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

dance

Reporter's notebook
As Israeli breakdancing finds its flow, locals throw down for chance at world stage
By Zev Stub
The urban dance style is gaining momentum here — mostly among B-boys — as local crews develop their style and look to represent Israel at the upcoming world final in Los Angeles
A dancer performs on stage at the World of Dance Festival and Israeli Breakdance Championships in Jerusalem, May 13, 2025 (World of Dance)
May 18, 2025, 4:30 pm
As Israeli breakdancing finds its flow, locals throw down for chance at world stage
The urban dance style is gaining momentum here — mostly among B-boys — as local crews develop their style and look to represent Israel at the upcoming world final in Los Angeles
By Zev Stub
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
Vertigo dancer Etai Peri leads Romi Gonen's friends in a dance piece at Hostages Square during 2024 (Screengrab: YouTube)
January 25, 2025, 10:38 pm
Choreographer looks back on a year of dances for freed captive
Etai Peri, who once taught released hostage Romi Gonen, reflects on leading movement events with her friends at Hostages Square
By Jessica Steinberg
Tzvika Iskais, left, and Yael Simon in 'Stolen Dance,' performed for the Hullegeb Israeli-Ethiopian Arts Festival on December 22, 2024 (Courtesy)
December 20, 2024, 3:06 pm
A play tells the Ethiopian Israeli experience through the trauma of a Nova survivor
‘Stolen Dance’ brings together theater and dance in an original production for the Hullageb Israeli-Ethiopian Arts Festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Noa Argamani addresses the crowd at a "Dance With Noa" party on August 23, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 24, 2024, 11:31 am
‘We must celebrate life’: Noa Argamani dances with friends after captivity
Rescued hostage says timing is not ideal as 109 hostages remain in Gaza, including her own partner, but that it is important to ‘celebrate every moment we’re here’
By ToI Staff
From '4 Fantasies and a Monkey' by Yossi Berg and Oded Graf at the 2024 TLV Dance, August 1-10, 2024 (Courtesy Vojtech Brtnicky)
July 4, 2024, 11:27 am
TLV Dance event reframed with Israeli troupes only
The 24th year of the summer dance festival will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Center, with 19 performances and open rehearsals
By Jessica Steinberg
Mira Stahl (Facebook)
April 1, 2024, 9:30 pm
Mira Stahl, 53: Special ed. teacher who touched countless lives
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
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
From 'Minefield,' one of the upcoming performances at the 62nd Israel Festival, August 1-11, 2023 (Courtesy Carlos Furman)
June 22, 2023, 9:23 am
‘The answer to what, why, how’: Israel Festival returns this summer
Annual Jerusalem arts and culture event is loaded with household name performers from Israel and abroad
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
'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
Dance piece 'She Looks Like She’d Be An Animal In Bed' by Batsheva dancer Béatrice Larrivée, is a site-specific piece for Ticho House, performed as part of the 'From Jaffa to Agrippas' festival December 30, 2022 (Courtesy Adi Admoni)
December 30, 2022, 8:40 am
Cravings and cultural identity on display in Jerusalem end-of-year dance fest
This year’s ‘From Jaffa to Agrippas’ dance event from the Catamon Dance Group moves from its home in the market to new museum spaces
By Jessica Steinberg
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