Dance
New Dance: Dance Series at Zucker Hall - Season 2
March – June 2023
Following the success registered by the first dance series, we held an additional series at Zucker Hall. The second series, under the artistic direction of Renana Raz, brought to the center of Zucker's stage the physiological aesthetics of the mature body, intimacy and the gap between how love is presented versus how it is experienced by individuals, a celebration of the living body and its vitality and also a bit of Spanish flavor.
The series hosted choreographers and thought-provoking, lucid and original works, through which a connection was created with new audiences who were invited to watch dance, think and be moved by movement and body in an immediate way.
Body and movement – two things so significant in the lives of human beings, through which we experience the world and our place within it. The art of dance can and should be an open and inviting door to human experience, personal and universal. Within the framework of the series, before each performance a conversation took place with the creator about the craft of choreography and together a map was drawn through which the work could be read and rediscovered.
Series performances: Galit Liss – 'Blues' Hillel Kogan – 'THISISPAIN' Roni Hadash – 'Chapters of Hedva' Yossi Berg and Oded Graf – WHEN LOVE WALKED IN
New Dance: Dance Series at Zucker Hall – Season 1
April – June 2022
A special dance series featuring six senior and young creators, creators of contemporary dance in Israel, initiated by the Culture Hall, and under the artistic direction of Yair Vardi, choreographer and founder of the Suzanne Dellal Center.
A series of six performances so different from one another and bringing the colors of contemporary Israeli dance in all its different hues to the magnificent Zucker Hall, for the first time at the Culture Hall.
The creators chosen to participate in the first series reflect the wide range of Israeli creation.
Series performances: The Israeli Flamenco Troupe – The Flamenco Show; Adi Boutrous – 'One More Thing'; Renana Raz – 'Sixteen Strings and One Body'; Rena Schenfeld, Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino – 'Meeting'; Sheketak – '7 Boom'; Orly Portal – 'Paqueroni'
Vertigo
June 2023
An original educational project initiated and under the artistic direction of Zohar Sharon and Roi Oppenheim, in which students from 'Rimon School of Music' collaborated with students from the dancer training workshop of the 'Vertigo' dance company, under the artistic direction of Keren Begun Horesh, and musicians from the 'Revolution Orchestra.'
New works for orchestra and electronics, created by the Rimon students, served as a soundtrack for original dance works, alongside selected pieces from the Vertigo company's repertoire.
The project partners presented to the audience a moving performance that was entirely original Israeli creation of music and dance
Moby D - Avshalom Pollak Dance Theater
2023
Avshalom Pollak Dance Theater, in collaboration with artists Michael Faust and David Polonsky, presented at Zucker Hall numerous performances inspired by Herman Melville's revolutionary writing style in his magnificent book Moby-Dick, and gave the audience an experience of an unforgettable theatrical journey.
An aesthetic multi-sensory experience taking place in worlds controlled by subconscious forces of lights and shadows, dancing and mixing with each other to the point of fusion of body, language, word, taste, illustration and music.
The dancers participating in the performance were: Tzvi Fishzon, Mats van Rossum, Rebecca Lauffer, Reika Shirasaka, Oren Raviv, Doron Lebanon, Patrick de Haan and Achinoam Chai.