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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 Deborah Friedes
Have you ever gone to a dance concert and traded clothes at a
“hand-to-hand market” in the theater lobby? Watched dancers slide
across dirt and hurl themselves through space under a geodesic dome?
Stumbled across an artist colony and dance studio in the midst of a
kibbutz?
These aren’t typical experiences, but then again, Vertigo Dance
Company isn’t your average dance group. I met Noa Wertheim and Adi
Sha’al, the directors of Vertigo, several times over the course of
this year, and I became increasingly intrigued by their
environmentally-friendly and community-oriented approach to dance. A
few visits to their Eco-Art Village at Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Hey
further piqued my interest, and Noa satisfied my curiosity in a lively
discussion which I’m happy to share with you. Join us as we talk
about Noa’s pathway into dance, her “eco-dance” The Birth of the
Phoenix, the creation of the Eco-Art Village, her relationship to
Israeli society, and tikkun olam.
WEBSITES:
Vertigo Dance Company
http://www.vertigo.org.il/
Vertigo’s Eco-Art Village
http://www.eco-artvillage.org/index_eng.html
Noa Wertheim’s latest work, “White Noise”
http://www.vertigo.org.il/white/engpages/white.html
“Birth of the Phoenix” Photo Gallery
http://www.vertigo.org.il/photogalley/birth-of-the-phoenix.htm
VIDEO LINKS:
Video on the Eco-Art Village
http://www.eco-artvillage.org/ecomovie/
Video of Noa Wertheim’s latest dance, “White Noise”
http://www.vertigo.org.il/white/engpages/video.html
Deborah Friedes
MFA, Directing from Labanotation Score (The Ohio State University)
BA, Dance History (Brown University)
deborahfriedes@gmail.com
http://web.mac.com/deborahfriedes/
