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Batsheva Dance Company MOMO Established in 1964 as a repertoire company by the Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, the Batsheva Dance Company is one of the world’s most prominent and renowned dance troupes. The company stands at the forefront of the local and international dance world, thanks to the bold choreographic voice of house choreographer Ohad Naharin who has succeeded in creating a unique corpus of and a movement language known as “Gaga”, which involves improvisational and imagination work. Naharin has become one of the world’ most celebrated choreographers, recently receiving the prestigious medal of honor of the Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters and the Italian “Danza&Danza” award for dance excellence. The company’s new creation “MOMO”, in which two groups of dancers battle each other to win the audience’s favor, will be gracing French stages all month, instilling the sense of wonder and spontaneity that is so characteristic

Vertigo - Makom I Photo: Elad Debi

of Naharin’s creations. batsheva.co.il/en/home/ Vertigo Dance Company Makom The Vertigo Dance Company

The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - The Director’s Cut I Photo: Udi Hillman

The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company The Director’s Cut In celebration of its 50 th anniversay, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Germany and Poland, countries that hold special meaning to Rami Beer, the company’s artistic director, as the son of two Hungarian Holocaust survivors. The company’s founder, Yehudit Arnon, a Nazi death camp Company has recently been performing on stages across

dance center a permanent port of call for the Israeli company whenever it came to New York. This year, Wertheim will be receiving an honorary award at the Sibiu festival, like Ohad Naharin and Baryshnikov himself, also have in the past. “Makom” is Wertheim’s exploration of the concept of “place” – “makom” means “place” in Hebrew – be it in its literal acceptance or in a more spiritual, metaphysical sense. vertigo.org.il/en/

celebrated its 30 th anniversary last year with a round of performances of its most recent creation ”Makom”, at the Baryshnikov Theatre in New York. Superstar dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov has been a friend of the company since 2017, when he saw two of its shows at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. After meeting with the company’s artistic director Noa Wertheim, he offered to make his

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