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Josephine Baker: Dancer, spy, and champion against racism and antisemitism

From Paris stages to WWII spy missions, Josephine Baker fought racism and antisemitism while inspiring generations worldwide.

Havana Baker: Josephine in Cuba, 1950; photo by Rudolf Suroch.
‘IT’S NOT not too late for you to change course, and tell your people six words – Australia is at war, with jihadism.’ Here, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media at Parliament House Canberra on Sunday as news of the Bondi Beach attack unfolded.

PM Albanese evacuated amid bomb threat linked to Shen Yun dance performance

Moni Moshonov is among this year's Union of Israeli Artists honorees.

Lifetime achievement awards for Moni Moshonov, Rina Schenfeld

 FLAMENCO DANCER Nino de Los Reyes.

FEX education: Flamenco in all its expression is coming to Israel next month


'Dance - is it a sickness or a gift?' A pandemic tale

“Even though there was a lockdown, and we weren’t allowed to perform for a whole year, the creation arose in such a strong way,” she says.

RINA SCHENFELD in ‘The Diary’: It reflects the two sides of me, the two different approaches. I am answering myself.

Meet the olah running a dance school for haredi women

The program’s goal is to empower the girls’ self-esteem and feelings of self-worth.

Rachel Factor

Turning a Byzantine well near Arad into a dance stage

The current cast of “Perforated Earth” includes 14 performers and three musicians.

WORK NEAR THE Byzantine well in the desert 10 minutes from Arad  – the site of ‘Perforated Earth.’

To dance or not to dance

It was during this confusing period that Rina Schenfeld was informed that she had won the prestigious Rosenblum Prize for the Performing Arts in the lifetime achievement category.

RINA SCHENFELD: This connection between words and movement is so inspiring for me and the dancers.

Schenfeld’s dilemma: To dance or not to dance

In one of her poems, Schenfeld writes, “Word replaced movement. Threw it out the door.”

RINA SCHENFELD

COVID-19 hasn’t stopped one of Israel’s national passions: folk dance

Those in the know say some 200,000 Israelis across the nation attend regular Israeli folk dance, including public and private sessions called harkadot, on beachfronts, sports facilities and more.

Festival goers dancing to Israeli folk music at camp Bitnua

A dance created for the blind and visually impaired dancers

Choreographer Shiri Teicher created a dance without sight

Dance without sight

Energetic, engaging dance makes its way to Tel Aviv

Antithesis by Company Aterballetto

Dance Review: A winning presentation for ‘2019’

The one decisive factor that will make 2019 memorable to the core, has to do with space design, rather than the bold and important dramaturgical content.

OHAD NAHARIN’S ‘2019.’

Dance review: Hofesh Shechter- Grand Finale, TAPAC, November 27

Composed as a string of arbitrary fragments, the whole picture eventually made more sense, much like mosaic making technique.

A SCENE from Hofesh Shechter’s ‘Grand Finale.’