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has been a yearly event since 1987. The festival is usually held for 3 days and nights in July, and includes dance performances, workshops, and open dance sessions. The festival began as a celebration of Israeli folk dance, but today it features many different dance troupes, attracting thousands of
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in 1935 and formed a modern dance company affiliated with the Tel Aviv Folk Opera. In 1950–1951, she founded the Israel Ballet Theatre, and became its artistic director. Contemporary dance in Israel is influenced by Israeli folk dance and European traditions. Dance companies include the Kibbutz
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dancers and hundreds of thousands of spectators from Israel and overseas. During the festival there are two major competitions: the Eyal ben Yehoshua choreography competition and a folk dance competition in memory of dancer Asheri Hever.
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is a notation system for recording movement on paper or computer screen created in Israel by dance theorist Noa Eshkol and Avraham Wachman, a professor of architecture at the
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region (Israel, Lebanon, Syria) and is a common dance done by mainly the Arab population of Israel however is a most popular dance among Israeli youth. In
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and dancer Jeannette Ordman. Bat Dor made its debut in 1968 with Ordman as its leading dancer. The company existed until July 2006.
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ideology, theater, modern dance and ballet which used physical objects to "guide the imagination to places beyond dance."
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Famous companies and choreographers from all over the world have come to Israel to perform and give
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Contemporary dance in Israel has won international acclaim. Israeli choreographers, among them
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are considered among the most versatile and original international creators working today.
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People come from all over Israel and many other nations for the annual dance festival in
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The Rina Schoenfeld Dance Theater, founded in 1978, developed an eclectic blend of
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The Adama Dance Company, established by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal, is based in
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in 1964. From its inception until 1979, the prima ballerina of Batsheva was
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focuses on the dance of ethnic communities in Israel, among them
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for training generations of flamenco dancers at her studio in
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incorporates a wide variety of dance styles, from traditional
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Tel Aviv's center for modern and classical dance is the
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is an internationally acclaimed dance company based in
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture
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on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot at Kibbutz Gan-Shmuel
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Israeli folk dancing includes folk dances such as the
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Festival of Israeli dance, which ended in the 1960s.
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was an Israeli dance company co-founded by Baroness
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Index


Valery
Ashdod
Israeli folk dancing
ballet
modern dance
ballroom dancing
flamenco
Ohad Naharin
Barak Marshall
Karmiel
Galilee
Gurit Kadman
Dalia
master classes
Mikhail Baryshnikov


Horah
Tza’ad Temani
Dabke
Levant
Hebrew
Gertrud Kraus
Mandate Palestine
Inbal Dance Theater
Vertigo Dance Company
Bat-Dor Dance Company
Batsheva Dance Company
flamenco

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