Dance Spreads Its Wings: Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010
Ruth Eshel, "Dance Spreads Its Wings: Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010"
English | ISBN: 3110749610 | 2021 | 500 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
English | ISBN: 3110749610 | 2021 | 500 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including “What do we dance?” because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years―starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the
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