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LIVE FROM ISRAEL
Recognized
throughout Europe for their virtuosity and originality, Israel's
leading and most creative contemporary choreographers: Idan Cohen, Niv Sheinfeld and Ronit Ziv from Tel Aviv and Barak Marshall
from Los Angeles offer highlights from their extraordinary body of work.
Press Release
Sunday, May 4, 2008CONCERT 2-4pm DANCE PARTY 4-7PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall MAP
120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (Parking lot 4)
Tickets: $20 adults/$12 students (Concert & Party)
Buy Tickets: www.tickets.ucla.edu (scroll down to Dept of World Arts & Cultures)
Call Box office: 310-825-2101. Info: 310-206-1335 www.wac.ucla.edu/cip
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SYMPOSIUM 12-1:30pm. Kaufman Hall. FREE
Israeli Dance: In and Out of the Middle East: Performance, Participation & Cultural Perspectives.
Speakers: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller (Executive Director, Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA), Margalit Oved Marshall (Choreographer/Dancer), UCLA Aavaa Dance, Sabela Grimes & Cheng-Chieh Yu. Moderator: Judy Mitoma (Dir. UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance)
Tuesday, April 22nd, 4-6pm.
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nina Spiegel: Prof. in Israeli History Jewish Studies Program, Univ of Maryland.
UCLA Royce Hall. Room 314. Parking Lot 2
Free. Sponsored by UCLA Center for Jewish Studies.
RSVP: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
Spiegel’s research explores the connections between dance and modern Jewish life in Israel and in the United States and examines such themes as the interpretation of folk and concert dance, comparisons between Israeli and American Jewish cultures, understandings of Jewish authenticity, and the invention of tradition.
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Photos: Niv Sheinfeld: Rosinante. Photo by Gadi Dagon. Idan Cohen: A Year in a Fish Life. Photo by Amir Weinberg. Ronit Ziv: 10 Minutes. Photo by Eyal Landesman
Bridge: Choreographic Dialogues is a joint project of: The Jewish Federation’s Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership and Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre (Tel Aviv) with UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance: Additional Support from: UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA (Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts), and UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.