Israel Ballet

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Israel Ballet
General Information
Name Israel Ballet
Year founded 1967
Founders Berta Yampolsky and Hillel Markman
Principal venue Tel Aviv University
Website Official Website
Artistic Staff
Artistic Director Berta Yampolsky
Other
Official School The Classical Ballet Center
Formation Principal
Soloist
Corps de Ballet

The Israel Ballet is a dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 1967 and performing works of classical ballet and neoclassical ballet. The company often stages newly choreographed works, and in addition, it is the only professional ballet company within Israel that stages works of the classical international repertoire. The Israel Ballet regularly tours internationally.

History

Founders Berta Yampolsky and Hillel Markman gave the first performance of the Israel Ballet on January 25, 1967, with a group of four young dancers, in Holon. George Balanchine granted permission to perform his work Serenade in 1975, and in 1981 he gave free performance rights to all of his works to the company.[1]

Today, Berta Yampolsky and Hillel Markman remain the Artistic Directors of the company. Dancers come from Israel or are more recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union, with additional international dancers auditioning for places in the company.[2]

The Classical Ballet Center

The Israel Ballet has its own facilities in Tel Aviv. These facilities include a formal school of ballet, called The Classical Ballet Center.

Repertoire

The Israel Ballet has many George Balanchine works in its current repertoire, thanks to his generosity in giving the company free performance rights. Balanchine works in the repertoire include Symphony in C, Square Dance, La Valse, Concerto Barocco and The Four Temperaments. Also in the repertoire are modern works by choreographers such as Christian Spuck, Rudi van Danzig, Jan Lincolns, Lar Lubovitch, and Krzysztof Pastor.[3]

The company also has many original works in its repertoire by Artistic Director Berta Yampolsky. Besides her original works, Yampolsky has created new choreography for Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. The Israel Ballet has a number of full-length classical ballets in its repertoire, including Onegin, Giselle, Don Quixote and Romeo and Juliet.

The Israel Ballet recently added a well-received new modern work to its repertoire, the "post-Forsyth" Hikarizatto by Itzik Galili.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "History". The Israel Ballet. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  2. ↑ "History". The Israel Ballet. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  3. ↑ "History". The Israel Ballet. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Brafman, Ora (February 4, 2012). "Dance Review: Israel Ballet". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 


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