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

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 cr...

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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
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749878 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110749878 Cover
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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

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

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