Dr. Henia Rottenberg

Dr. Henia Rottenberg lecturers at the Kibbutzim College of Education courses on the relationships between dance and the arts, as well as a survey course in dance history. Prior to teaching at the College, Henia taught contemporary dance classes at the University of Haifa.

Henia is a Co-Editor and contributor for the Israeli magazine DanceToday, a member in the dance committee of Omanut Laam, and a member of the Managing Committee of the Kibbutzim Dance Company. Her article “Lea Anderson- Dancing and Drawing the Past into the Present” is part of the book titled Decentering Dancing Texts, edited by Adshead-Lansdale, Janet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Her article on the dance Oyster by Noa Werheim for the Vertigo Dance Company is part of the book Dance Discourses in Israel of whish she is the co-editor with Dr. Dina Roginsky (Resling, 2008). Henia was engaged in a research on Sara Levi-Tanai's dance language on a Kibutzim College of Education grant (2008).

Henia obtained her MA and PhD from the University of Surrey. Her PhD thesis, obtained in 2004, focuses on Dance Analysis and Hybrid Relationships between Dance and Painting in Postmodern Culture. Henia’s MA thesis, obtained in 1998, was titled Rami Be’er – “Rami Be’er – A Political Choreographer”. Henia holds a Certificate in Academic Teaching from the Mofet Institute for Teachers Educators (2006-2007), a Higher Certificate in Choreography from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (1990), and Elementary and Intermediate Certificates in Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau, NYC (1991 and 1992, respectively).

Henia has studied ballet with Lia Schubert and Kaj Lutman at Dance Centre in Haifa and contemporary dance with Rosalind Newman at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Henia’s dancing experience includes performances in Different Trains by Rosalind Newman, in Hong-Kong and South Korea in 1990; in Diapered Branches by Ruth Eshel during 1985 and 1986; and in 1975 she participated in Coppelia by Lea Schubert for The Piccolo Ballet in Haifa.

Dr Linda Dankworth

I was awarded a PhD in Dance Ethnography at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in 2010. My thesis argues that there is an interrelationship between the processes of revival of Mallorquin traditional dance and the influence of tourism that has contributed to the formation of Mallorcan identities. Its principal focus is an analysis of the Mallorquin folk dance repertoires including the bolero, jota, fandango, and bullanguera. During the course of my research, I undertook the first training course of the Ethnochoreology/Dance Analysis 7.5 Credit Course - DANS2011 (60, ECTS) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). (ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology Intensive Training Course) in November, 2003. I am a member of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology, and a member of Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).

Publications include:

-2008. Performing Culture and Identity: Constructing Heritage through Dance and Tourism. Paper presented as part of: 25^th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. 11-17 August 2008. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

-2007. Improvisation as an Embodied Practice of Mallorquin Dance. Paper presented as part of: Re-Thinking Practice and Theory. CORD and SDHS Conference, June 21-24 2007. Le Centre de National de la Danse, Paris, France.

-2006. Embodied Translations of Mallorquin Dance and the Influence of Romantic Ideology as a Process in the Production of Cultural Heritage. Paper presented as part of: From Field to Text: Translations and Representations: 24th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. 17 - 23 July 2006. Tranzit House, Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Cluj, Romania.

Dr. Ruth Eshel

Dr. Ruth Eshel was a dancer and choreographer from 1970 to 1987. She is the author of the book Dancing with the Dream – The Development of Artistic Dance in Israel 1920-1964, dance critic for Ha’aretz, and Artistic Director of Haifa University’s Eskesta Dance Theatre. Her Ph.D dissertation (at the Tel Aviv University) was on Movement Theater in Israel, 1976-1991.

Carolina de Pedro Pascual

Carolina de Pedro Pascual (1969, Buenos Aires, Repתblica Argentina )

Profession: Teacher of Classical Dances - Editor of Danza Ballet

In 1975, I began to study ballet in the Colon Theatre High School of Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After eight years, I obtained a Professional Ballerina Diploma. In 1993, I was invited to study and collaborate with Serguei Randchenko's Ballet Company. Randcheklo is an Honorary Artist of Russia and teacher of the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. He has founded, together with Maris Liepa, the Moscow Festival: today known as the RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET.

I have studied with numerous ballet teachers, both national and international, and important figures in this field such as: Aםda Aizemberg, Alexander Sochinsky, Rada Eichenbaum, Ethel Lynch, Zarko Prebil, Vladimir Vasiliev, Serguei Radchenko among others.

I teach ballet for both children and adults using the Vaganova technique. I organize intensive and regular courses on different modalities and levels of dance. I collaborate with own notes in important national and international magazines of ballet.

I live in Barcelona, Spain.

Rachel Bilsky-Cohen

Rachel Bilski-Cohen is a dance critic, scholar and free-lance lecturere who writes in professional publications on dance theory, history and education. Rachel participates in various conferences, and lectures about Modern and Contemporary dance at the Goethe Institute, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and other frameworks. Rachel is an active member in the board of directors of the "Train Theatre", "Mitveh" for art education, and "Keren Yosmot"- Educational projects.
Till 1999 Rachel served for 10 years as a Dance consultant to the Israel Festival, and for many years have taught at Bezalel Art academy; Kerem- Teachers' College; And for 10 years was the director of Art Project at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.  
Rachel was invited to dance festivals such as: Montpellier Dance Festival; Tanz im August in Berlin; 2-Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in France (2002). Taught for many years at the High School of Rubin Academy of Music and Dance: Teacher of  dance improvisation and composition; dance history; 20th century dance, dance literacy. Conducted numerous workshops in creative dance in Israel, Germany and the U.S.A., and directed the conference The Medium in 20th Century Arts at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute.

Academic and professional record
M.A. in Education at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Professional dance diploma- Laban Art of Movement, U.K.
Dance Studies at Universities in the U.S.

Book
Co-editor with Baruch Blich. The Medium in 20 the Century Arts. The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute and Or-Am, 1997. [Hebrew Edition]

Papers presented at coferences
Globalization and the Dance-World - Ongoing interactions and viewpoints. Lecture presented at the conference "Kunst der Welt oder Weltkunst?- Die Kunst in der Globalisierungsdebatte". The Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 24-26 May 2002,  published in the Loccumer Protokolle of the Evangelische Akademie.
Contemporary Dance in Israel. Lecture presented at the conference "IAM- International Arts Manager Magazine". February 2001.
The Influence of Contemporary German Dance Theater on Israeli Dance. Lecture presented at the conference "Tanztheater today- 30 years of German Dance". Goethe Institute, May 1997 (English and German editions).
The Language of the Body in Modern and Contemporary Artistic Dance. Lecture presented at the confernec "Haltung-Gestik-Koerpersprache". Loccumer Protokolle of the Evangelische Akademie. Loccum, Germany, 75/1996
Mythos on the Context of Modern and Contemporary Dance. Oldenburg University, 2006.

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