Dance Spreads Its Wings : : Israeli Concert Dance 1920–2010 / / Ruth Eshel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Eshel, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; Self-published, Tel Aviv, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 531 p.)

Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including “What do we dance?” because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years—starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the Yishuv (pre-Israel Jewish settlements) period, until 2010, when concert dance in Israel had grown to become one of the country’s most prominent, original, artistic fields and globally recognized. What drives the book is the impulse to create and the need to dance in the midst of constant political change. It is the story of artists trying to be true to their art while also responding to the political, social, religious, and ethnic complexities of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Concert Dance in the Jewish Community in Pre-State Israel (1920–1948) -- Chapter 1 What Do We Dance? -- Chapter 2 The Various Ways of Making Hebrew Dance -- Chapter 3 Creation of Hebrew Holiday Pageants -- Chapter 4 Eretz-Israeli Expressionist Dance -- Section II: Three Aspects of American and Israeli Encounters (1948–1964) -- Chapter 5 Israeli Expressionist Dance Meets American Dance -- Chapter 6 American Dance Meets Dance in Israel -- Chapter 7 The American and Yemenite Encounter -- Section III: Is Ballet Still Legitimate? (1948–1964) -- Chapter 8 Sowing the Seeds of Ballet -- Chapter 9 The Israel Opera Ballet -- Section IV: Looking to Professionalize Dance: Looking to the Outside (1964–1980) -- Chapter 10 Political and Social Changes -- Chapter 11 The Batsheva Dance Company (First Era) -- Chapter 12 The Bat-Dor Dance Company (First Era) -- Chapter 13 The Israel Ballet (First Era) -- Chapter 14 New Standards for Dance Teaching -- Section V: Between the Periphery and the Center (1948–1980) -- Chapter 15 Tel Aviv – Center of Cultural Activity -- Chapter 16 Dance at the Edge of the Metropolis -- Chapter 17 To Dance in Holy Jerusalem and Socialist Haifa -- Chapter 18 Dance in the Kibbutz: The Struggle over the Necessity of Concert Dance -- Chapter 19 The Inter-Kibbutz Dance Company: How to Express Our Uniqueness Onstage? -- Section VI: The Breakthrough of Alternative Dance and Movement-Theater (1977–1990) -- Chapter 20 Alternative Dance -- Chapter 21 Batsheva 2: A Backup Company or New Dance? -- Chapter 22 Individualists and New Ensembles -- Chapter 23 Movement-Theater in Israel -- Chapter 24 How Do You Meet and How Do You Part? -- Section VII: Sowing Seeds – Setting Up Stages (1984–2000) -- Chapter 25 Stages for Creativity -- Chapter 26 The Spanish Stage -- Chapter 27 The Butoh Stage -- Chapter 28 The Arab Stage -- Chapter 29 The Ethiopian Stage -- Chapter 30 Immigrants from the USSR Encounter Israeli Dance -- Chapter 31 Broadening Horizons in Dance Education -- Section VIII: Veteran Companies in a Changing World (1980–2000) -- Chapter 32 The Curtain’s Still Up: Batsheva, the Israel Ballet, and Inbal -- Chapter 33 The Curtain Comes Down: Kol Demama, Tamar Jerusalem, Bat-Dor -- Section IX: About to Bloom (1990–2000) -- Chapter 34 It All Comes Together – Renaissance of Creative Impulse -- Chapter 35 The New Voice of the Kibbutz and Batsheva Dance Companies -- Section X: The Time and Place in Which We Live (1990–2010) -- Chapter 36 To Speak of Me I Knew -- Chapter 37 Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation: Movement Speaking Its Own Language -- Chapter 38 The Religious and the Secular – The Dynamic Between Them -- Chapter 39 Taking a Political Stance -- Chapter 40 To Regions Only Imagined -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index