Out of the Circle: The Art of Dance in Israel

Curator: Talia Amar

Before it became firmly established as one of the most successful areas of the local performing arts, Israeli dance underwent a long process of self-discovery  and self-definition. Celebrating the Suzanne Dellal Center’s 25th anniversary, the exhibition presents important milestones in the evolution of Israeli artistic dance through works from different periods and mediums, focusing on the motif of the circle and its rupture. This motif, rooted in the hora danced by the pioneers at the start of the 20th century, is charged with both structural and socio-historical significance. Reflecting changes in Israeli society along the years, it alternately crystalized and broke, illuminating the tensions between the individual and the group, ordinary movements and gestures of pathos, local and universal myths, and open and closed space.

Noa Eshkol is represented in the exhibition with the wall carpet, “Zodiac”, and through archival materials: illustrations by Abraham Wachman and John G. Harries from “Movement Notation” (1958), photographs by Shosh Kormosh documenting Eshkol’s dances, posters for the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group, and videos of performances in which Eshkol gives instruction.

Location: Ayala Zacks Abramov Pavilion for Israel Art

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit/?id=905

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/2014/dance/

Alfons Himmelreich
Dance Macabre, Gertrud Kraus Company, ca. 1938
Gelatin Silver print
Collection of the Presler private Museum, Tel-Aviv