NOA ESHKOL FOUNDATION

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NOA ESHKOL ARCHIVE

The Noa Eshkol Archive encompasses Eshkol’s estate in its entirety. It is organized by thematic divisions including all materials related to the formation of Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN), a unique and original Israeli invention. It documents the notation’s stages of development since its inception in the late 1940s until today.

The archive includes: drawings, movement and dance scores, still photographs, posters, films and videos, work journals, compositional notation studies, books and manuscripts, correspondences, lesson plans, and more.

In 2012, the Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation initiated the conservation and digitization of the archive as part of its responsibility to preserve Noa Eshkol’s legacy.

Noa Eshkol Archive Founding Director: Michal Shoshani

Noa Eshkol Archive Digitization Team: Mor Bashan and Michal Schreiber

Archival Capsules

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Angles and AngelsThis capsule focuses on the dance Angles and Angels from the suite Angles & Angels. Published in 1990, this is the last suite that Noa Eshkol published of her compositions in her lifetime. Its materials portray an arch from scores, schematic plans, texts, documentary photographs and video, to floor patterns and computer generated plots of space chords. All of the ornamental View Gallery

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Illustrations for “Movement Notation”These drawings by Avraham Wachman and John G. Harries help illustrate principles of movement for the original book ìMovement Notation,” (1958) by Noa Eshkol and Avraham Wachman – the first official book that introduces Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation to the public. The illustrations seen here are a small sample from over 200 illustrations entrusted to the Noa Eshkol Archive by the Estate View Gallery

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HandsThe origin of this capsule is “an extensive research program on the sign language of the deaf in Israel, carried out at the Department of Psychology of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under the direction of Y. Schlesinger. In carrying out this research, the need was inevitably encountered, for a tool for the collection and observation of the raw material: the View Gallery

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The Four SeasonsThis capsule takes as its point of inspiration Noa Eshkol’s dance composition, “The Four Seasons” from the suite “Right Angled Curves”, published in 1975. In the preface, Eshkol writes, “the main motif (movement value) is a plane movement of 90 degrees. The subject is a development of this motif by successive transpositions of the movement into different orientations (three planes),View Gallery

THE NOA ESHKOL ARCHIVE

Contents of The Noa Eshkol Archive by section

Archival Capsules

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NOA ESHKOL ARCHIVE