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by Daniella Schapira, former director of the Bat-Dor Dance Company, and artistic director and choreographer Tamir Ginz. As resident company of the Bat Dor Beer Sheva Dance Center, the Kamea Company gives center stage to excellence and virtuosity, and its troupe includes dancers from everywhere in the world. This month, Ginz’s new creation “Wild Awake” will be premiering in celebration of the company’s 20 th anniversary, and mixes surrealist fantasy with unabashed optimism, visions of unbridled passion with unfulfilled desires. “I’ve allowed myself to go with the flow of every wild vision my imagination conjured up - and to do so with my eyes wide open. I feel as though the period of post-Covid reawakening was a time of deep renewal and creation for me, and this show is all about the experience of this

The Inbal Dance Compamy - Kiriyat Gat I Photo: Eli Katz

survivor herself, swore she would create a dance company were she to survive her ordeal – rendering the performances in Germany and Eastern Europe even more poignant. “Dance is an international language, and movement creates communication between people”, says Amira Teomi, the company’s CEO. “We perform everywhere in the world, representing not only ourselves as a company, but Israel as a whole, and we are always warmly received”, she adds. “The Director’s Cut”, which premiered in February, is a look back into some of the company’s most iconic moments, blending the past with the present and adding new meaning to each layer of movement and (e)motion. kcdc.co.il The Inbal Dance Company Kiriyat Gat The Inbal Dance Company is celebrating 75 years of artistic creation this year, with a series of new shows and performances. Founded by legendary

choreographer Sarah Levy-Tanai all those years ago, the company has renewed itself many a time since then. “Dancing is about movement, not about resting on the laurels of the past”, says Eldad Grupy, the company’s CEO and artistic director for the last nine years. “Though the Inbal Dance Company remains attached to its heritage, as artistic director, I believe it is my job to add new layers to its identity. Our new creation “Suzanne”, by choreographer Emanuel Gat, will be premiering in Paris this April, and is precisely about doing just that” he adds. This month, Gat’s creation “Kiriyat Gat”, will be staged in Israel, and explores the ways with which bridges can be formed between the past and the present, fragility and stability, the center and the

reawakening”, says Ginz kameadance.com/en/ ■

periphery. inbal.org.il Kamea Dance Company Wild Awake

The Kamea Dance Company was founded as a collaborative initiative

Kamea Dance Company - “Wild Awake” I Photo: Kfir Bolotin

24 ATMOSPHERE MARCH 2023