@Book{1785794566, author="Eshel, Ruth", title="Dance Spreads Its Wings: Israeli Concert Dance 1920--2010", year="2021", publisher="De Gruyter Oldenbourg", address="M{\"u}nchen", keywords="Dance; Israel; History; ART / General; Israeli dance; Jewish culture; Jewish history; Jewish identity", abstract="Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Concert Dance in the Jewish Community in Pre-State Israel (1920--1948) -- Chapter 1 What Do We Dance? -- Chapter 2 The Various Ways of Making Hebrew Dance -- Chapter 3 Creation of Hebrew Holiday Pageants -- Chapter 4 Eretz-Israeli Expressionist Dance -- Section II: Three Aspects of American and Israeli Encounters (1948--1964) -- Chapter 5 Israeli Expressionist Dance Meets American Dance -- Chapter 6 American Dance Meets Dance in Israel -- Chapter 7 The American and Yemenite Encounter -- Section III: Is Ballet Still Legitimate? (1948--1964) -- Chapter 8 Sowing the Seeds of Ballet -- Chapter 9 The Israel Opera Ballet -- Section IV: Looking to Professionalize Dance: Looking to the Outside (1964--1980) -- Chapter 10 Political and Social Changes -- Chapter 11 The Batsheva Dance Company (First Era) -- Chapter 12 The Bat-Dor Dance Company (First Era) -- Chapter 13 The Israel Ballet (First Era) -- Chapter 14 New Standards for Dance Teaching -- Section V: Between the Periphery and the Center (1948--1980) -- Chapter 15 Tel Aviv -- Center of Cultural Activity -- Chapter 16 Dance at the Edge of the Metropolis -- Chapter 17 To Dance in Holy Jerusalem and Socialist Haifa -- Chapter 18 Dance in the Kibbutz: The Struggle over the Necessity of Concert Dance -- Chapter 19 The Inter-Kibbutz Dance Company: How to Express Our Uniqueness Onstage? -- Section VI: The Breakthrough of Alternative Dance and Movement-Theater (1977--1990) -- Chapter 20 Alternative Dance -- Chapter 21 Batsheva 2: A Backup Company or New Dance? -- Chapter 22 Individualists and New Ensembles -- Chapter 23 Movement-Theater in Israel -- Chapter 24 How Do You Meet and How Do You Part? -- Section VII: Sowing Seeds -- Setting Up Stages (1984--2000) -- Chapter 25 Stages for Creativity -- Chapter 26 The Spanish Stage -- Chapter 27 The Butoh Stage -- Chapter 28 The Arab Stage -- Chapter 29 The Ethiopian Stage -- Chapter 30 Immigrants from the USSR Encounter Israeli Dance -- Chapter 31 Broadening Horizons in Dance Education -- Section VIII: Veteran Companies in a Changing World (1980--2000) -- Chapter 32 The Curtain's Still Up: Batsheva, the Israel Ballet, and Inbal -- Chapter 33 The Curtain Comes Down: Kol Demama, Tamar Jerusalem, Bat-Dor -- Section IX: About to Bloom (1990--2000) -- Chapter 34 It All Comes Together -- Renaissance of Creative Impulse -- Chapter 35 The New Voice of the Kibbutz and Batsheva Dance Companies -- Section X: The Time and Place in Which We Live (1990--2010) -- Chapter 36 To Speak of Me I Knew -- Chapter 37 Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation: Movement Speaking Its Own Language -- Chapter 38 The Religious and the Secular -- The Dynamic Between Them -- Chapter 39 Taking a Political Stance -- Chapter 40 To Regions Only Imagined -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index", note="Ruth Eshel", note="Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.", note="In English", isbn="9783110749878", doi="10.1515/9783110749878", url="https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110749878", url="https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110749878/original", url="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749878", language="English" }