Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
From ON by Adi Salant for the Fresco Dance Company, premiering in Tel Aviv on May 11, 2021 (Courtesy Efrat Mazor)
Dance is among the artistic mediums that fared poorly during the pandemic, in terms of performances.
Videos felt slow and sluggish, and live feeds weren’t always worth the trouble.
Creativity in the field, however, wasn’t impaired.
“It was a very artistic year,” said Yoram Karmi, lead choreographer and founder of the Fresco Dance Company. “We immersed ourselves in artistic activity.”
From ‘Kapow,’ a new dance work by Eyal Dadon for the Fresco Dance Company, premiering May 11, 2021 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Efrat Mazor)
Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
Dancer and choreographer Rina Schenfeld from her new work, The Diary, Part 2, to be performed at her Tel Aviv studio on March 11 and 12, 2021 (Courtesy Dovrat Asulin)
It’s been a creative year for renowned dancer and choreographer Rina Schenfeld.
At 83, she has been home alone for much of the pandemic but never stopped writing songs and dancing in her bed, on the balcony with a doll, with the wall, and sometimes with a plastic bag.
Now she’s ready to perform “The Diary,” the work she created, in two performances scheduled for Thursday and Friday in front of some 20 audience members in the intimate space of her Tel Aviv studio.
Posted by Zappa זאפה on Wednesday, April 29, 2020
More than 3.15 million people were exposed to the Zappa music projects, according to the Israeli Marketing Union, and the Zappa-Keshet shows received a 7.6% market share on average, which Keshet said was higher than expected.
The very first Zappa Live show in March, with Idan Raichel, received a whopping 14.5% market share, no live audience needed.
‘Here to stay’
Music, which is something people are used to consuming in non-live formats, is far easier to produce online than dance, said Anat Leventon, CEO of Tel Aviv’s Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater, who began her job just a month and a half after the coronavirus began.