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SUMMER-FALL09

Israeli Dance Seasons Office of Cultural Affairs Consula te General of Israel in New York

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Out of Focus by Tomer Heymann Film ScreeningOhad Naharin is Israel’s “rock star” choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company. He specializes in getting world-class dancers to move from their guts—not the mirror—by teaching them what he playfully calls “Gaga,” his unique language of movement. In this dynamic close-up documentary, veteran Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann renders a candid portrait of the movement and the man through an in-depth look at Naharin’s rehearsal process with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet of New York City. Heymann succeeds in masterfully eliciting a series of “Notes on Dance” from his subject - Naharin.

and is danced by Gat and Roy Assaf, who performed the award-winning Winter Voyage at the 2005 ADF. The New York Times exclaims, “Their synchronicity was amazing, hypnotic…their sinuousness of movement was a constant fascination.”

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Cedar Lake presents Israeli modern choreographer Ohad Naharin’s Decadance (2007), acclaimed by The New York Times as “dancing that pulls viewers right out of their seats.” Naharin’s work is a choreographic

feat that pieces together two decades of material to create an explosive new masterpiece. An incomparable testament to fierce athleticism, Naharin’s choreography requires dancers to commit every gesture with complete concentration and intensity.

Emanuel Gat “If you want to see the future of dance, take a long look at Emanuel Gat.” - Kansas City Star. Emanuel Gat brings Festival audiences an ADF commissioned World Premiere duet based on a one-of-a-kind artistic collaboration. Complete with music by R. Strauss, Riad al Sunbati, and the Beatles, Winter Variations boasts a most striking intimacy

Scripps American Dance Festival Award CeremonyThe Scripps/ADF Award will be presented to Ohad Naharin on Thursday, June 25th. The Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award of $50,000 was established in 1981 to honor choreographers for

lifetime achievement in modern dance. In recognition of his accomplishments as a choreographer and performer, the 2009 Scripps/ADF Award will be presented to Ohad Naharin by Sebastian Scripps.

Pilobolus“The purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis.one image merges into another, organically, poetically, inexplicably.” - The New York Times. An exciting new work (ADF commission) by Israeli choreographers Avshalom Pollak and Inbal Pinto. Also on the program and back by popular demand is Pilobolus’ first collaboration with Pollak and Pinto, Rushes, a display of striking choreography complete with dancing chairs which promises to be just as thrilling as its first incarnation at the ADF in 2007.

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Full program of American Dance Festival (ADF) - http://www.americandancefestival.org/performances/

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Ravinia Music Festival Andrea Miller will perform in Stravinsky’s work, A Soldier’s Tale conducted by the internationally acclaimed conductor and musical director of the Ravinia Festival, James Conlon. http://www.ravinia.org/

New Dances at Juilliard Andrea Miller has been commissioned to create a piece for Juilliard’s freshman class as part of the New Dances program.

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Springboard Danse, Montreal Andrea Miller will teach and choreograph for Springboard Danse summer program. The program will conclude with a showing of “works in progress” by Miller, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Compagnie FLAK, and others. http://springboarddansemontreal.com

Dance Workshop,

Movement Invention

ProjectA two-week workshop exploring improvisation skills and collaborative process for the advanced ballet and contemporary dancer. For more info contact MIP@njdte.org

Founded in 2006 by choreographer Andrea Miller, Gallim Dance is a New York City based company. The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, to play inside the imagination, to find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul and to investigate our limitations. After Gallim’s debut performance in May 2007 at Joyce SoHo Presents, the company has gone on to perform in many premiere dance venues including Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research at Judson Church Dance Theater Workshop, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Juilliard Theater, Battery Park, and The Flea Theater. “With space eating phrases both charmingly awkward and wildly technical, Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance has burst onto NYC’s downtown dance scene.” Jan Peter’s, Dance Magazine. Full program of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

visit – http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/2009/07/gallim-dance/

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LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVALEmanuel Gat Dance - Silent Ballet Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer Emanuel Gat and his outstanding company from Israel/France return to the Festival with two new works that, in one evening, examine pure dance and its relationship to sound through Gat’s signature style and musicality. Gat’s Silent Ballet, which receives its North American premiere, features nine dancers who explore the elements of choreography accompanied only by the sounds of their motion on stage. Also showcased is the New York premiere of Gat’s latest

duet with Roy Assaf, Winter Variations where moments of charged stillness are examined, intensifying the visibility of actions, relations, intentions and compositions. Full program of Lincoln Center Festival - http://www.lincolncenter.org/showents_list.sp?eventcode=20776

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GALLIM DANCE SUMMER SCHEDULE

JACOB's PILLOW - Andrea Miller/Gallim Dance

Full program of Gallim Dance -http://www.gallimdance.com/company.html

ELLA BEN-AHARON & EDO CEDER SUMMER EVENTSSummer Dance Intensive University of Florida -Ella Ben-Aharon & Edo Ceder teaching the Pilates Certification & Dance.

Goose Route Festival West VirginiaElla Ben-Aharon & Edo Ceder performing “Part A: The Meating”. For more info please see http://www.gooseroute.org

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PilobolusThe Joyce Theaterjul20,21,28,29, aug 5 @ 7:30 PM & jul23,aug1,8 @ 8:00 PM. 2b, an exciting new work by Israeli choreographers Avshalom Pollak and Inbal Pinto will once again dazzle and amaze. Also on the program and back by popular demand is Pilobolus’ first collaboration with Pollak and Pinto, Rushes, a display of striking choreography complete with dancing chairs which promises to be just as thrilling as its first incarnation at the ADF in 2007. “The purest Pilobolus experiences have involved metamorphosis - one image merges into another, organically, poetically, inexplicably.” - The New York Times. Full program of Pilobolus @ The Joyce Theater visit - http://www.joyce.org

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Neta Pulvermacher -SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE University of Florida, School of Theatre and Dance, Gainesville, FL - The Neta Dance Company will hold its first summer dance intensive at the University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance teaching classes in Modern, Ballet, Repertory, and Improvisation. Artistic director and Resident Choreographer Neta Pulvermacher is on the Faculty of the University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance. Since founding the Neta Dance Company in 1987 she has choreographed over 65 works for her company and other companies and institutions around the world. In New York, her company has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, The Joyce Theater, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Series, Symphony Space, The Flea Theater and The Kitchen and has toured extensively. She received a special choreography award from Bessie Schoenberg (1995). Neta also is the founder, curator and producer of the critically acclaimed A.W.A.R.D. Show! Series held at Joyce Soho. Full program of Neta Company - www.netacompany.org

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Ella Ben-Aharon & Edo Ceder Past event - The LABA Festival @ 14th St. Y“Part A: The Meating” is a segment of a full evening piece, “Pericardium” revealing the inner world of two people that randomly find each other and try out what it means to really

“meet.” From solos to duets of differing intensity, the dancers explore meeting and “meating” each other.

2009 General Assembly World Dance Alliance-Americas A two-week workshop exploring improvisation skills and collaborative process for the advanced ballet and contemporary dancer. For more info contact MIP@njdte.org

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See the full program of Ella Ben-Aharon and Edo Ceder - http://www.yelleb.org/

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Zvi Gotheiner - ZVIDANCE River to River Festival with “White” commissioned by Sitelines 2009 - a ZviDance world premiere May 31, June 6, 7, 13. Performed at Fort Jay on Governors Island, “White” highlights the Fort’s historical significance and eerie sense of abandonment, reflecting on attempts to feel secure by arming our borders. Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner collaborates with six dancers performing to an original score by renowned composer Scott Killian. The dancers wrap areas around the site with long rolls of white gauze, reminiscent of bandages, creating a slow motion web-like sculpture intertwining throughout the space. Full program of River to River Festival visit - http://www.rivertorivernyc.com

FESTIVAL TRANSAMERIQUESYasmeen Godder - Singular Sensation “Regaining sensation”, that raw emotion that makes us feel alive, is the remarkable mission that Yasmeen

Godder has given to her five incredible dancers so that we can “escape from the deluge of information and the dictates of seduction in our societies.” Ignoring conventions, the Israeli choreographer doesn’t care for demonstrations of aesthetics. Inspired by performance, her dance is convulsive, suspenseful, abstract and explicit. Consumed by an urgent need to find a way of connecting with the other, Godder’s dancers plunge headlong into seduction, complicity and power relations in an atmosphere of hilarious brutality and dark humor.

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Past Events Spring 2009 04

Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - Upon Reaching the SunSandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach. Part of the Virginia Arts Festival. This extraordinary company’s lineage traces back to the beginnings of Israel’s kibbutz movement, through its founder, Yehudit Arnon, and artistic director, Rami

Be’er. Their powerful, visceral performances capture the tragedy and triumph of human spirit in works that propel audiences to their feet. “Powerful...hypnotic... strong in visual imagery, intense in feeling and deep in intellectual content” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). For Full program of Virginia Arts Festival visit – http://www.virginiaartsfest.com or http://www.sandlercenter.org/

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Yuval Pick A unique occasion in which young choreographers from France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain and Quebec will meet and will share their vision on contemporary dance. For Full program of Festival TransAmériques visit www.fta.qc.ca

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Idan Cohen in DNA - Dance New Amsterdam Performing “In the Company of Men” and “Three Partied Swan, op.1”. Between 2000 and 2005, Idan Cohen danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance

Company (KCDC) as a leading dancer in works by Rami Be’er, and worked with other choreographers including Laura Brask and Inbal Pinto. He has worked as an independent choreographer since 2005 creating and performing in Israel and abroad. Full program of Dance New Amsterdam visit– http://www.dnadance.org/site/

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Renana Raz Choreographer Renana Raz will be in residence at the University of Texas in Dallas. Raz will perform and offer master-

classes throughout the US in September-December, 2009

Renana Raz is a leading voice in the young generation of Israeli choreographers. She has created dance works and taught in the leading art academies and dance-institutes in Israel. Raz began creating independently

in 1999. Among her awards: 2002 &,2003 the Israeli Ministry of Culture award for young choreographers, 2004 choreography prize at the Annual Theatre Awards for the choreography and movement, 2006 the Young Artist Rosenblum Award -Ministry of Culture award for choreographers. Renana Raz has received grants from the “Yehoshua Rabinovitz” Foundation, the National Lottery Company, BI-ARTS (the British Council’s British Israeli Arts Training Scheme) and Buchman Heiman. Raz’s creations have been staged in Israel, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Holland and most recently Japan to the acclaim of both audiences and theatre/dance critics. For more information on Renana Raz visit - http://www.renanaraz.com/english/

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B/olero BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANYFall for Dance - Opening NightB/olero debuted on October 2008 as part of ‘project 5’, a special program choreographed by Ohad Naharin for 5 dancers from the Batsheva Dance Company.

The piece was choreographed to pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomida’s interpretation of Ravel’s classic score. “…the indulgent pleasure of watching highly intelligent, superbly articulate dancers at play in the fields of its artistic director’s kinetic imagination…”- Sara Wolf, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009. Full program of “Fall for Dance” - http://www.nycitycenter.org/

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Hofesh Shechter Company in WHITE BIRD Hofesh Shechter danced with the world renowned Batsheva Dance Company, working with Artistic Director Ohad Naharin and later with other choreographers including Wim Vandekeybus, Paul Selwyn-Norton, Tero Saarinen, and Inbal Pinto. He began experimenting and developing his own music while participating in various dance projects in Europe involving dance, theatre and body-percussion. In 2002 Hofesh arrived in the UK joining the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company. His choreographic debut, Fragments, for which he also created the score, toured both nationally and internationally to Finland, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Korea, New York and Poland, where the piece won first place in the 3rd Serge Diaghilev choreography competition. Shechter has assembled a group of 12 dynamic dancers and 5 musicians who will perform two works hailed as masterpieces: his furiously energetic all-men’s piece Uprising and his deeply personal and provocative In Your Rooms. Full program of White Bird - http://www.whitebird.org/

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ARENA, a new work by Deganit premiered at Dance Theater Workshop, April 16th-18th. The company was recently granted a residency to develop Arena at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Deganit Shemy - ARENA After her arrival to NYC, Deganit Shemy received a space grant from 2005-2007 at 92nd St Y and artist residencies at Movement Research and Dance New Amsterdam. Through these residencies, the company was able to create and perform “Dualog” and “Queentet”. In 2007 The company went on to perform “Queentet” in Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop and “Iodine (Yod)”, the beginning of an evening length work, developed in residency at Tribeca Performing Arts Center and Dance Theater Workshop. In addition, her works have been performed at Performance Space 122 and presented by Williamsburg Art neXus at BAC.

The Baryshnikov Arts Center, in partnership with the Inaugural Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, Florida, has commissioned an evening-length version of Arena. The company will tour to Florida for a two-week residency followed by the festival.

The company received a new residence and commission by Dance @ DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center), as well as Maggie Allesee National Center for choreography to develop Arena on October 7th-11th.

Full schedule of Deganit Shemy & Company – http://www.dganit-shemy.com

LeeSaar The Company - PRIMA Performance Space 122, NYCThe new work of LeeSaar the Company “PRIMA” is a work for six dancers with the audience seated on both sides of the performance area. This intimate environment will bring the dancers and the audience into a different relationship, developing a connection with no limits which will permit all to experience the dance in a more sensual and intimate manner. LeeSaar the Company was established in Israel in 2000 by the actress and writer Lee Sher and the dancer/choreographer Saar Harari. The company uses the diverse disciplines and training of theater and dance to create their unique creations. The company members are from England, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, the United States and Israel. In 2005, Lee and Saar Received the Six Point Fellowship for 2007-2009. They received the Guggenheim fellowship in Choreography for 2008 and the New York Foundation for the Art Fellowship for 2008. Full schedule of LeeSaar the Company -http://www.leesaar.com/

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Netta Yerushalmy - Rooms Without a ViewDanspace Project, NYC presents the premiere of Netta Yuerushalmy’s “Rooms Without a View.” At LaMama Dance Festival (May 2009), Yerushalmy previewed this new duet and showed excerpts from her celebrated work “dispositif”. Netta Yerushalmy grew up in Israel. Since moving to NYC and graduating from the Dept. of Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has worked with Doug Varone and Dancers, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Mark Jarecke, Karinne Keithley, Noemie LaFrance, and many others. Her choreographic work has been presented in numerous venues around NYC, in Israel, and at the Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, where she was a choreographer in residence. Most recently Netta has been invited to create a new work for Israel’s prestigious Curtain-Up Festival, where she will also be performing in the work of another Israeli choreographer, Ronit Ziv.For more information please visit - http://www.danspaceproject.org

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Batsheva Ensemble - DECADANCE Arsht Center, Miami FL Batsheva Ensemble is the junior company working alongside the senior Batsheva, while preserving its own professional identity. The Ensemble is the greenhouse for cultivating the next generation of dance performers, choreographers and designers. A large component of its schedule is dedicated to its unique and original educational programs, offering young audiences all over Israel, an equal opportunity for an exciting and fresh exposure to the art of dance. Information about Batsheva - http://www.batsheva.co.il/ Full schedule of Arsht Center for the Arts - http://www.arshtcenter.org/perform

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“Decadance is not a new work. It is more about reconstruction: I like to take pieces or sections of existing works and rework it, reorganize it and create the possibility to look at it from a new angle. It always teaches me something new about my work and composition. In Decadance, I took sections from different works. It was like I was telling only either the beginning, middle or ending of many stories but when I organized it the result become as coherent as the original if not more.” - Ohad Naharin

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SUMMER-FALL09

Israeli Dance SeasonsOffice of Cultural Affairs Consula te General of Israel in New York

Thank you Our warmest thanks to the Foundation for Jewish Culture for their collaboration and devotion to Israeli contemporary dance.

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