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• 11.10.08
  Deborah Interviews Israeli Choreographer Sahar Azimi   Dance and Theatre, Podcasts (0)

  In a festival with more than fifteen concerts – each of which features multiple works – dances are bound to blend into one another. But when a work stands out in this context, you know it’s the real deal. That’s what happened again and again at Machol Bamidbar (Dance in the Desert) this June. [...]

   

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• 10.26.08
  Deborah Interviews Israeli Dancer/Choreographer Shlomit Fundaminsky   Dance and Theatre, Deborah Friedes: Dancer and Dance Scholar, Podcasts (0)

  Whether she is performing a solo she choreographed, improvising with the Octet, or teaching a contemporary dance class, Shlomit Fundaminsky is someone to watch. She has drawn my eyes in all of these settings. Onstage she fully embodies the clever characters she creates, and in the studio, she passes on her passion for movement to [...]

   

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• 08.27.08
  Deborah Friedes interviews Michal Shoshani about Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation   Dance and Theatre (4)

  We take it for granted that symphonies are scored in musical notation and plays are written in scripts.  But did you know that there are ways to write down dance?
  There are many forms of dance notation, from the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation of the Baroque era to Labanotation, which has recorded many ballets and modern dances of [...]

   

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• 07.08.08
  Deborah Friedes with Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak As They Talk about Their Pathways to Dance.   Dance and Theatre (1)

  Hydra: Photo by Seto Hidemi

  Oyster: Photo by Elazar Harel

  Shaker: Photo by Eyal Landesman

  Inbal and Avshalom: Photo by Asaf Ashkenazyn.
  It usually happens like this: I sit down, explain a bit about my
  research, and start asking questions.  But when I first met Avshalom
  Pollak, he started asking  me questions!  I wasn’t entirely
  surprised; after all, Avshalom and his [...]

   

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• 06.30.08
  Deborah Friedes Interviews Noa Wertheim of Vertigo Dance Company   Dance and Theatre (4)

  Noa Wertheim Photo by Eyal Landesman

  Noa Wertheim Photo by Eyal Landesman

  Vertigo and the Diamonds Photo by Dorit Tal Paz

  White Noise Photo by Gadi Dagon

  White Noise Photo by Miri Yanai Shimonovich

  Vertigo and the Diamonds Photo by Miri Yanai Shimonovich

  Eco-Dome for Noa’s work, Birth of the Phoenix Photos by [...]

   

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• 06.05.08
  He Said – She Said Part II: Liat Dror of Adama Speaks to our Deborah Friedes   Dance and Theatre (0)

  Liat Dror – Photo courtesy of Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal

  Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal watching rehearsal.

  Adama’s Dancers Rehearsing.

  Adama’s Dancers Rehearsing.
  The several hour trek south from Tel Aviv to Mizpe Ramon in the Negev
  desert is tiring, but at the end of the journey is a refreshing oasis:
  Adama, an extraordinary dance center created by Liat Dror [...]

   

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