Dance

After losing my son to terror, I started dancing at 70 to learn how to live again

When I landed in the hospital for an operation on my colon, my doctor said, “No more grief. You need to do things that are fun.”

A dancer rehearsing ahead of a performance.
Komuna members pose for a group photo during the community's eighth-anniversary celebration.

Komuna: Connecting young Israelis and olim through the power of Israeli folk dance

PERIDANCE OPERATES as a platform for multiple artistic languages.

Int'l dance company arrives in Israel, proving Hora can be a state of mind

My Life with Arthur Szyk  (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: May 29-June 4


New flamenco show Darabar to hit Jerusalem after delay due to Hamas war

We could all do with some positive vibes as things stand, and the Pessachs and their flamenco troupe might just have a happiness elixir to offer us. 

 Ethiopian-born multidisciplinary artist Dege Feder (3rd L) and Remangar dance company director Keren Pessach (2nd R) dive into the flamenco action.

An internal exodus: An inside look on Harry Houdini

Artistic director of Jerusalem Ballet Company discusses career and death of Harry Houdini

 HOUDINI’ performed by the Jerusalem Ballet.

Israeli trance community dances its way back from October 7 - opinion

Following October 7, after a period when people took time to digest what had occurred, trance events started up again, but in a somewhat different mode.

Trance returning to Israel.

Días de Flamenco Festival in Tel Aviv will keep the Spanish beat going

This year’s Días de Flamenco (Flamenco Days) Festival, 30 years after its founding, will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv (March 28-30). 

 TWO SIDES of flamenco.

Portuguese festival: 'Zionism has no place on a dancefloor'

Portuguese Waking Life festival sparks debate after equating Zionism with racism on dancefloors. Controversy ensues.

People visit the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im, near the Israeli-Gaza border, December 31, 2023

Batsheva Dance Company's new performance draws a line on certain cultural appropriations

Choreographer and performer Hillel Kogan has coined the work, “a ballet,” unabashedly appropriating a well-patented format into the contemporary dance realm. 

 ‘APPROPRIATION’ – a new work by acclaimed choreographer and performer Hillel Kogan, performed by the Batsheva Dance Company.

Chaya Lev: Jerusalem's infectious spirit of dance and positivity

A Black Jew in Israel, Chaya Lev shares her journey – while dropping some hilarious one-liners – and her mission to bring joy to others.

 Hummus and Hashem: Chaya Lev smiles big with ‘In Jerusalem’ Editor Erica Schachne at The Red Heifer steakhouse.

Bride's provocative wedding song leads to immediate divorce

Unheard of: Newlyweds split after bride dances to controversial song, causing family feud and immediate divorce.

 VHarasymiv

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater arrives at Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center - review

Fortunately, after all these years “Revelations” remains fresh. Every performance by the company ends with this brilliant choreography.

 THE ALVIN AILEY American Dance Theater.

‘Memento’: A riveting Holocaust story unlike any other ballet

Memento is a historically based fictional ballet inspired by the heroic tragedy of a Jewish ballerina, Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg, known by her stage name, Franceska Mann.

 LAST DANCE with death: The moment Mann pulls the trigger on the SS officer/Nazi.