无码变态

KENNESAW, Ga. | Sep 26, 2017

The dance department at 无码变态 will present Israel鈥檚 world-renowned Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for one show at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Dance Theater on 无码变态鈥檚 Marietta Campus (the former Southern Polytechnic).

Choreographed by Kibbutz Contemporary Dance鈥檚 artistic director, Rami Be鈥檈r, 鈥淗orses in the Sky鈥� premiered in 2016 at the Sydney Opera House. The work uses powerful physical vocabulary to juxtapose a surrealist sense of dreams and an impending apocalypse.

Ivan Pulinkala, the founding director of Kennesaw State鈥檚 department of dance, who this time last year was working with the Israeli Consulate General and several arts organizations on the Exposed dance festival, saw 鈥淗orses in the Sky鈥� in December in Israel and knew it would be the ideal work to launch a professional presenting season at the university鈥檚 new, state-of-the-art Dance Theater.

The first professional dance company to grace the Dance Theater stage, Kibbutz will usher in a new era of dance for metro Atlanta as Kennesaw State introduces a professional series of internationally renowned dance companies.

鈥淗orses in the Sky鈥� will be the debut show for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in the Atlanta area.

The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 1973 by Yehudit Arnon, who survived Auschwitz, then moved to Israel to establish Kibbutz Ga鈥檃ton in the Western Galilee.

Today, Kibbutz Ga鈥檃ton is home to the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, known for its compelling movements, technically virtuosic performers and inventive artistic voice.

Be鈥檈r, the company鈥檚 artist director, was born in 1957 to a family of Holocaust survivors. After his mandatory army service but while he continued to serve in the army reserve, he joined the Kibbutz Contemporary company as a dancer.

He has continued the founding vision of the late Arnon and established the company鈥檚 International Dance Village as a magnet for dancers and creative artists from all over the world.

鈥淗orses in the Sky鈥� will mark the first time the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company is seen in Atlanta.

The past five years, Pulinkala has established a strong presence for the Kennesaw State dance program in Israel, including an annual dance study-abroad session in Tel Aviv and a host of visiting Israeli artists, who have given Kennesaw dance students the experience of cutting-edge contemporary dance from one of its world centers.

The Kennesaw State dance program received a Schusterman Visiting Artist Grant in 2016 to bring an Israeli artist to campus for four months.

Marcia Caller Jaffe