Workshops and Classes

In addition to performing, the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group also runs regular classes. Discussion sessions, open rehearsals, open classes, dance and movement workshops for children and adults, screenings, and lectures are also offered per invitation.

Advanced Class – the Dances of Noa Eshkol

Veteran Chamber Dance Group dancer teaches Noa Eshkol’s dance compositions at Eshkol’s home studio. (Class full) Contact for more details

Beginner’s Class – the Dances of Noa Eshkol

Chamber Dance Group dancer teaches Noa Eshkol’s dance compositions at Eshkol’s home studio. Students learn the principles of Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation through rehearsing Eshkol’s compositions.No previous experience required. (Accepting new students). Contact for more details

Discussion Sessions

Following performances by The Chamber Dance Group, any question from the audience about the compositions, the notation method or the uses of movement notation in other fields, are welcomed and discussed. Contact for more details

Open Rehearsals

Open rehearsals feature selections from Noa Eshkol's dance suites that offers the opportunity to experience the various layers involves in the dancers’ efforts to perfect their execution of these dances, from striving to embody the movements of EWMN to expressing the poetic dimensions of the dances. Contact for more details

Dance and Movement Workshops for Children

Experience the process of constructing a language for movement. What do we look at while watching a body in motion? What is a private versus a public language? What are "small" and "big" languages, and what makes a language practical? Participants will practice movement exercises and learn how to write them in movement notation. They will also create their own movement and dance segments, which may be performed at the conclusion of the workshops. Contact for more details

Movement and Movement Workshops for Adults

Workshops are centered on basic principles of EWMN, elements from Eshkol's dances, and the coordinative challenges they require. No previous experience is required. Contact for more details

Screenings

Films from the Noa Eshkol Archive document master classes and rehearsals with Noa Eshkol and performances by the Chamber Dance Group, as well as animations by John G. Harries using EWMN in the production of abstract experimental films. Contact for more details

Lectures

Specialists provide lectures on Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation and Noa Eshkol’s dance compositions; for example, “Ethological Research and EWMN” by Ilan Golani, and “Dance, Cybernetics and Apollo 11: A Lecture in Memory of Prof. Avraham Wachman on Architectural Space and EWMN” by Ifat Finkelman. Contact for more details