Israel festival
Released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen performs songs written in captivity at Kibbutz Nir Oz concert
The Israel Festival event, titled “From Captivity to the Lawn: Stories and Songs,” drew 3,000 attendees, including bereaved families and other former captives.
Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival
Jerusalem highlights: July 24-30
Israeli Comedy Festival returns for its fourth year to bring laughs for everyone
Abidin Ensemble pays tribute to the poetry of Nazim Hikmet
The Abidin Ensemble will present some of the poems of Hikmet, set to music by Turkish composer Erdem Buri (1923–1993).
Shakespeare in the balance
The core of the play’s story line centers on a British monarch who misses a trick or two when looking to bequeath his rule to his offspring.
Clowning about… seriously
Swiss performer Martin Zimmermann blurs the lines between the inanimate and the living in ‘Hallo’
Sounds good – and looks good, too
“Music is a living medium formed between people at a given moment, in a unique form. It comes into being at a particular time and in a spontaneous manner.”
Crowds, power and performance
Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin brings ‘Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People’ to the Israel Festival
Pop-up performance party
FestiVan will take music, dance and poetry to Jerusalem’s streets.
Israel Festival 2019: From the directors’ desks
In the 1980s, mayor Teddy Kollek managed to move the Festival to Jerusalem, and already then it began to enlarge the scope to include other arts, such as theater and dance.
A slice of life
“Somehow, how I look at the world comes out of being Jewish, first-generation South African, and being involved in the breaking down of apartheid. It is my point of reference," Orlin said.
Is this dance?
“I think that dance can fight for more freedom and stretch the borders of what this art form is. We can go beyond the borders of technique and find what dance can say.”
