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Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker in Tel Aviv

Posted on January 27, 2013 by admin

The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center (or the Opera House as it is popularly known) has a very solid dance program each season which brings every year to Tel Aviv most of the best ballet and modern dance companies world-wide. … Continue reading →

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Film: Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky – 2010)

Posted on January 29, 2011 by admin

‘Black Swan’ is about art and obsession, is about sanity and madness, it’s about perfection and genius, all this described in the world which can be so mistakenly perceived of classical ballet. A world in which the spectator is supposed … Continue reading →

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Dance: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Tel Aviv

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin

I know Alvin Ailey’s company for a very long time. It was this company and choreographer and the one of another great artist Alwin Nikolais and his ‘Nikolais Dance Theater’ who came in tours in Romania at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Dans: Miguel Angel Berna’s ‘Goya’ at Tel Aviv Dance 2010

Posted on October 11, 2010 by admin

I chose to see two performances from the Tel Aviv Dance 2010 Festival. The second one will be another encounter with Alvin Alley and his American Dance Theater, the third one after he made me discover modern dance in Bucharest … Continue reading →

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‘Bill’ at the Batsheva Dance Company

Posted on May 15, 2010 by admin

The Batsheva Dance Company founded in 1964, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin since 1990, established itself as one of the most interesting and well known modern ballet companies in the world. We saw last night their last production … Continue reading →

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a dancing class on Balanchine’s work

Posted on December 25, 2009 by admin

‘Violette and Mr. B.’ tries to break the usual method of doing biographical films about great dancers and choreographers. These are usually based upon archive materials intermingled with interviews of other artists, and students, and critics of the artist who … Continue reading →

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A ballet film – ‘Serge Lifar Musagete’

Posted on December 25, 2009 by admin

This biography film is one of the two that the French music and culture channel Mezzo screened lately by director Dominique Delouche. It traces the life and career of Ukranian-born French choreographer Serge Lifar who directed for several decades the … Continue reading →

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