Elad Samorzik
By Elad Samorzik
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The Schmooze Choreographing Chaos
Crossposted from Haaretz The colors of twilight were descending on Tel Aviv last week as Rotem Tashach opened the door and apologized for the mess in his apartment, which he was soon moving out of. The living room and balcony were jam-packed; a visitor’s eye was drawn to a large canvas resting in the corner,…
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The Schmooze Israel Ballet Back On Its Toes
Crossposted from Haaretz Things are beginning to move at the Israel Ballet, just four months after new general manager Lea Lavie assumed her post. Lavie, whose management experience includes working for tycoon Lev Leviev and the Likud party, has replaced Hillel Markman, who directed the company since he and Berta Yampolsky founded it in 1967….
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The Schmooze Dancing Through Exhibits
Crossposted from Haaretz When Sharon Lockhart was 22 and backpacking in Israel, in the early ’80s, she spent two months tomato-picking in a moshav in southern Israel, saving up for her next destination — India. Back then, one could hardly guess that decades later she would return, a successful artist, studying Noa Eshkol’s work and…
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The Schmooze Artists Say No to Zionist Prize
Crossposed from Haaretz Hundreds of dancers, authors, filmmakers and other artists have signed a petition calling to cancel the NIS 50,000 prize initiated by Culture Minister Limor Livnat intended to “reflect Zionist values and history” and give the prize money to “the meager coffer supporting free artistic work in Israel.” The artists say a prize…
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The Schmooze Zurich’s Cosmopolitan Choreography
Crossposted from Haaretz Many dance troupes are closely identified with the choreographer and artistic director leading them. But in the case of the Zurich Ballet, it seems that Heinz Spoerli has taken this tendency a step too far. His name appears together with the name of the troupe wherever possible, whether on billboards and in…
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The Schmooze Japanese Choreographer Brings Dance ‘Flood’ to Tel Aviv
Crossposted from Haaretz “My Israeli identity has become stronger recently,” says Mami Shimazaki, the Japanese dancer and choreographer whose new work “Flood” premieres August 10 at the Summer Dance Festival at Tel Aviv’s Suzanne Dellal Center. “I talk more, make more noise, laugh more. [I’m] more lighthearted,” she continues in polished Hebrew. “But somehow when…
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The Schmooze Nymphs, Glamour Girls and Burlesque
Crossposted from Haaretz Four women dance to the sentimental sounds of classic Hollywood orchestra music. Ardent fans of musicals will identify these as the song that accompanied Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse’s nighttime dance in Central Park in “The Band Wagon,” Vincente Minnelli’s 1953 film. The four women dance with delicate grace and use their…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Yuval Pick to Head French Dance Center
Crossposted from Haaretz The Israeli dancer and choreographer Yuval Pick was appointed director last week of France’s Centre Choregraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape. Pick, 40, will replace choreographer Maguy Marin, who has held the position since 1998, in August. CCN Rillieux-la-Pape, in the Rhone-Alpes region, is one of 19 such centers established around France in the…
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