In the mid-1950s, a Juilliard-trained dancer who had studied with the famed choreographer Martha Graham was putting the finishing touches on a small troupe in her new home, Israel. Rena Gluck’s company visited theaters, village squares and kibbutz collective farms with modern dance performances built around Graham’s percussive and muscular techniques of form and flow. […]
As a student of Martha Graham and a founding member of the Batsheva Dance Company, she helped lay the foundation for an art that has thrived in Israel.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A dozen art shows and exhibits will be on display during the First Fridays Artswalk on Friday, Oct. 7 from 5 to 8 , with most art on open for viewing all month.