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Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater

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
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
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
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
Singer Yehuda Poliker performs on May 11, 2023, at the opening night of the 25th Docaviv Film Festival which is screening 'The Child Within Me,' about his life. (Courtesy: Docaviv)
May 13, 2023, 4:37 pm
Singers, eco-activists, designer dreams: True tales at 25th Docaviv
Dozens of documentaries being screened at 10-day film festival hosted by Tel Aviv Cinematheque
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
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
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
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
Israelis listen from their balconies as saxophonist Yarden Klayman performs a concert from a rooftop on Basel Square, in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 2, 2021, 3:47 pm
Far from being curtains, pandemic ushered in new audiences for artists
Going digital was the obvious pivot for most performing arts events, and despite the challenges of putting on a show for a virtual audience, producers say they’re not looking back
By Jessica Steinberg
Beersheba dance studio owner and community organizer Melina Gefterman (center, with short white hair), who has leaned on the organizational help and emotional support of nonprofit organization Creative Independence during the coronavirus (Courtesy Melina Gefterman)
December 9, 2020, 3:25 pm
And step and pivot: Performing artists get business help amid pandemic
Creative Independence, a nonprofit run by dance professionals, gives entrepreneurial advice on how to thrive despite closed studios and theaters
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
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