Dance spreads its wings : Israeli concert dance 1920-2010 / Ruth Eshel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eshel, Ruth, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Performing arts.

Israel.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from the Hebrew, revised and expanded.

Summary:

Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including "What do we dance?" because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years--starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the Yishuv (pre-Israel Jewish settlements) period, until 2010, when concert dance in Israel had grown to become one of the country's most prominent, original, artistic fields and globally recognized. What drives the book is the impulse to create and the need to dance in the midst of constant political change. It is the story of artists trying to be true to their art while also responding to the political, social, religious, and ethnic complexities of a Jewish state in the Middle East

Contents:

Section I: Concert Dance in the Jewish Community in Pre-State Israel (1920-1948)

Chapter 1 What Do We Dance?

Chapter 2 The Various Ways of Making Hebrew Dance

Chapter 3 Creation of Hebrew Holiday Pageants

Chapter 4 Eretz-Israeli Expressionist Dance

Section II: Three Aspects of American and Israeli Encounters (1948-1964)

Chapter 5 Israeli Expressionist Dance Meets American Dance

Chapter 6 American Dance Meets Dance in Israel

Chapter 7 The American and Yemenite Encounter

Section III: Is Ballet Still Legitimate? (1948-1964)

Chapter 8 Sowing the Seeds of Ballet

Chapter 9 The Israel Opera Ballet

Section IV: Looking to Professionalize Dance: Looking to the Outside (1964-1980)

Chapter 10 Political and Social Changes

Chapter 11 The Batsheva Dance Company (First Era)

Chapter 12 The Bat-Dor Dance Company (First Era)

Chapter 13 The Israel Ballet (First Era)

Chapter 14 New Standards for Dance Teaching

Section V: Between the Periphery and the Center (1948-1980)

Chapter 15 Tel Aviv

Center of Cultural Activity

Chapter 16 Dance at the Edge of the Metropolis

Chapter 17 To Dance in Holy Jerusalem and Socialist Haifa

Chapter 18 Dance in the Kibbutz: The Struggle over the Necessity of Concert Dance

Chapter 19 The Inter-Kibbutz Dance Company: How to Express Our Uniqueness Onstage?

Section VI: The Breakthrough of Alternative Dance and Movement-Theater (1977-1990)

Chapter 20 Alternative Dance

Chapter 21 Batsheva 2: A Backup Company or New Dance?

Chapter 22 Individualists and New Ensembles

Chapter 23 Movement-Theater in Israel

Chapter 24 How Do You Meet and How Do You Part?

Section VII: Sowing Seeds

Setting Up Stages (1984-2000)

Chapter 25 Stages for Creativity

Chapter 26 The Spanish Stage

Chapter 27 The Butoh Stage

Chapter 28 The Arab Stage

Chapter 29 The Ethiopian Stage

Chapter 30 Immigrants from the USSR Encounter Israeli Dance

Chapter 31 Broadening Horizons in Dance Education

Section VIII: Veteran Companies in a Changing World (1980-2000)

Chapter 32 The Curtain's Still Up: Batsheva, the Israel Ballet, and Inbal

Chapter 33 The Curtain Comes Down: Kol Demama, Tamar Jerusalem, Bat-Dor

Section IX: About to Bloom (1990-2000)

Chapter 34 It All Comes Together

Renaissance of Creative Impulse

Chapter 35 The New Voice of the Kibbutz and Batsheva Dance Companies

Section X: The Time and Place in Which We Live (1990-2010)

Chapter 36 To Speak of Me I Knew

Chapter 37 Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation: Movement Speaking Its Own Language

Chapter 38 The Religious and the Secular

The Dynamic Between Them

Chapter 39 Taking a Political Stance

Chapter 40 To Regions Only Imagined

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-074987-4