We support a wide variety of dance initiatives, bringing together UK and Israeli choreographers and dancers for workshops, master classes and performances. Many of these projects are supported by BI ARTS which contributes to the dancers’ professional development and allows them greater public exposure.
Two Israeli choreographers, Yasmeen Godder and Itzik Giuli, participated in a creative exchange project at The Place, with the aim of strengthening bonds between the Israeli and British contemporary dance communities. In December 2008 they travelled to London to lead a workshop for UK based choreographers. In spring 2009 four UK choreographers, Temitope Ajose-Cutting, Philine Janssens, Colin Poole and Mickael Riviere travelled to Israel to continue this project at Godder’s studio in Jaffa. Through workshops, discussions and comparing research, they examined Godder and Giuli’s working methods and discussed how these are defined by the context of living in Israel and how it differs from the environment in London. This project was developed alongside our ChoreoRoam programme
We have supported the Tel Aviv Dance Festival since its inception in 2007, when leading British dancer and choreographer Michael Popper and the Popper Collective performed The Other Side of Tender. In 2008 two leading dance companies from the UK attended the festival. Choreographer Jonathan Lunn performed Self Assembly and Israeli-British rising star Hofesh Schechter was warmly received by both the media and audiences with his inspiring works Uprising and In Your Rooms. All the visiting artists conducted workshops with professional Israeli dancers, who described experience as “out of the ordinary, interesting and very intellectual.”
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