Israel Folk Dance - Gal's take
History
- First folk dance invented in 1924
- As a “made-in-Israel” culture counterpart to the diaspora (mostly east Europe) culture of folk dancing
- Influenced by Debka (Arabic)
- First creators and teachers had poor dancing background
- Israel folk dance styles
- Circle
- Partner
- Line (שורות)
- First dance
- First festival
- First notable creators
- Gurit Kadman, 1929
- Rivka Sturman, 1942
- Yonatan Carmon, 1953
Other contemporary dances in Israel
- Saloon dance
- Salsa
- Cuban-style, L.A.-style
- Rueda
- Bachata
Israel Folk dancing today
- Second wave start at the late 80th
- Creators and teachers has better dancing background
- Influenced by other dancing style such as Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Saloon dance, Country, ...
- Later, also influenced by Salsa, acrobatics, ...
- Festivals
- The largest festival at Carmiel – from 1988
- Other festival at Israel: Jerusalem, Ashdod, Emek Izrael
- International festivals for Israel folk dancing
- International festivals for folk dancing around the world
- Notable rofessional folk dancing groups
- Amateur dancing groups
- Almost each city has its own dancing group
- “common” dancing sessions for everybody - dancing experience is optional
Amateur dancing group video – Tut Sade Ramat HaSharon
“Common” dancing session video - Shlomo Maman