Archival Capsules
The Archival Capsules are galleries curated from the eclectic materials in the Noa Eshkol Archive. Conceived to parallel the original thematic organization of the archive, they also represent new compilations of materials. An effect of the archive’s digitization has been the virtual emancipation of the scores, photographs, correspondences, videos, documents (and other media), from their shelves, enabling them to be taken out of their original contexts and brought into new frames of reference.
Some capsules are arranged chronologically – taking advantage of the linear layout – while others are compiled thematically, depending on their contents.
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 ornamentalView Gallery
EWMN and Animal Behavioural StudiesThese materials “show the application of EWMN to the movements of animals. And thus, confirming the use of the method as a movement notation, as opposed to a dance notation, of which a number of systems exist. A movement notation is applicable, not only to dance, and not only to the human body, but to any mobile system, analogous inView Gallery
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 EstateView Gallery
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
Early Years (1950-1958)These materials relate to Noa Eshkol’s early years as a dancer, a dance composer, and inventor, with Avraham Wachman, of Eshkol Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN).
The earliest pieces are from her time in London, where she studies at the Art of Movement Studio in Manchester with teachers Rudolf Laban and Lisa Ullmann. The materials then follow her trajectory from LondonView Gallery
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: theView Gallery
