Table of Contents
Editor’s foreword
Dance and community
Dance-Audience-Community: Annual dance conference of the Israeli Association for Dance Research/ Stav Bar-Nahum Frank
Community dance practice: An academic program for dance students/ Naama Spitzer
Dancing body – society dances [its] culture: Sociology and anthropology of the body//Yehonatan Hershberg
Dance in the Kibbutz Movement: A social, educational and artistic expression/Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
Hebrew secularism and kibbutz holidays/MukiTsur
Peepdance – The body as the last refuge for freedom – Dance performances inside peep cells in the public space/Talia Freed
Conferences and dance meetings among children in elementary school as a connection to the community and society/ Michal Hershkovitz Michaeli & Einat Duak
Dancer in the Community – Dance makes change/ Ilanit Tadmor
Smadar Weiss talks with Dalia Chaimsky on “Ma’ase Gil” – (third age dance project
Ma’ase Gil)
A community in movement – Thoughts following three years of contemporary dance activity for people living with Parkinson’s disease in the Yasmin Godder studio/ Sigal Bergman, Shiri Sabach Teicher
A short introduction to the phenomenology of tremor/Guy Hugler
Vertigo Dance Company- The power of balance/ Uriah Kadari
Peace in Motion/ Alexandra Zaslav
Joined- when East and West meet in on a creative process/ Tammy Izhaki
Manish Chuhan from Mumbai to Ga’aton/ Chen Mesil
Memories from Africa: Dance-Audience-Community/ Esther Dagan
African Ballet in West Africa/ Rachel Bangoura
Roy Bedarshi interviews Gadi Biton
Spotlighting the artist
An Israeli choreographer shatters the Berlin Wall – Talia Perlshtein and Tamar Bar-Shalom interview Tamar Ben-Ami
Ruth Eshel’s dance reviews: Fugue by Inbal Pinto, Asylum by Rami Be’er, Nova Carmen by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar
Excellence in Dance Education – Selected events/ Hila Covrigaro
Festival Montpellier 2018/ Ruth Eshel