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Israeli folk dances were created as way of helping to create a new Israeli culture in the land of Israel, combining elements from other dance cultures with the music and themes of modern Israel. Most of the dances could be danced by young and old, and celebrated the pioneering spirit. Others were created for professional or semi-professional ...
Celebrated Israeli ballet dancers, Valery and Galina Panov, who founded the Ballet Panov, in Ashdod. [1] Dance in Israel incorporates a wide variety of dance styles, from traditional Israeli folk dancing to ballet, modern dance, ballroom dancing and flamenco. Contemporary dance in Israel has won international acclaim.
In 1950-1951, she founded the Israel Ballet Theatre, and became its artistic director. [11] Contemporary dance in Israel is influenced by Israeli folk dance and European traditions. Dance companies include the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Inbal Dance Theater, Bat-Dor Dance Company and Batsheva Dance Company.
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Israeli folk dancing, performance in honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Mayim Mayim (Hebrew: מים מים, "water, water") is an Israeli folk dance, danced to a song of the same name. It has become notable outside the Israeli dancing community and is often performed at international folk dance events.
It was a masekhet, or dance drama, rather than a folk dance. Sturman would create several other masekhet dances, including one called Gideon. [1] In 1965, she released the album Dance with Rivka through Tikva Records. [12] In later decades, Sturman traveled abroad to countries such as the United States to teach workships on Israeli folk dance. [13]
Dance teachers have also applied the name Yemenite to steps that differ from the classic Yemenite step but retain enough similarity to make the name helpful for teaching or descriptive purposes. Thus the back Yemenite, the name of which specifies the direction of the first movement and can be expanded to specify the starting foot.
This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: