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annual report BatSheva Dance company 2017 דוח שנתי להקת מחול בת-שבע )ע״ר( "I’ve learned that listening to the body is a lot more meaningful than telling it what to do. One can get from dancing a great sense of clarity, explosiveness, and delicacy while allowing us to go far beyond our familiar limits. These are necessary ingredients to fuel a good process in and out of the studio." - Ohad Naharin, Dance Magazine Last Work by Ohad Naharin, photo: Ascaf Naharin, photo: Ohad by "Ohad Naharin is one of the most vital In total, we shared 215 performances with over 100,000 viewers Dear in sold-out houses across Israel and abroad. Ohad Naharin’s dance artists of the past half-century.” spellbinding Venezuela premiered in 2017 to immediate critical Friends and popular acclaim, generating prestigious tour bookings well - Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice, January, 2017 into 2020. As you know, Batsheva's Young Ensemble inspired 10,000 young students Batsheva through Kamuyot, a rigorous morning outreach performance Dance for schools across the country. The Company continued to nurture outstanding young dancers in various dance education Company frameworks and welcomed 570 dancers from 44 countries for never stands our annual auditions. Batsheva continued to be a global cultural From Dancers Create: MESS, DRAW by Chun Woong Kim, dancers: Chun Woong Kim and Yael Ben Ezer. Photo: Alvin Collantes Photo: Ben Ezer. Kim and Yael Chun Woong Kim, dancers: Chun Woong by DRAW MESS, Create: Dancers From still. beacon, a source for creativity and research, learning and exchange, for the international dance community. 2017 also marked great progress towards the realization of our beautiful new home in South Tel Aviv, designed by world- renowned architect Sir David Adjaye. David and his team, together with Ohad, are creating a state-of-the-art multi- disciplinary Arts Campus, which will serve the community at large, contributing to the much needed renewal of the City’s southern borough. Endorsed by Mayor Ron Huldai, the project is an extraordinary partnership with the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo which is committed to a 60% investment. We recognize the significance of our new location in Neve Sha'anan, and acknowledge the responsibility of our role in a major urban renewal process undertaken by the City. Our new Arts Campus will be a living example of how the arts can change lives, change the city, and change the world. We launched our capital campaign to raise our remaining share, reaching out to our friends in Israel and abroad, calling for support of the Company's greatest endeavor since its establishment in 1964. We invite you to join us in this pioneering venture. Sincerely, Ittamar Givton Dina Aldor Chairman of the Board Executive Director Arts Campus in Neve Sha’anan. Design: Sir David Adjaye Arts Design: Sir David Sha’anan. Campus in Neve In a joint venture with the Municipality of In addition to its own performances, broadly ranging influences, ingenious Batsheva’s New Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Tel Aviv Foundation, Batsheva will spearhead innovative use of materials and sculptural ability the internationally-acclaimed Batsheva artistic programs across a wide spectrum have established him as an architect Arts Campus in Dance Company is establishing an Arts of the performing arts, making optimal with an artist’s sensibility and vision. Campus at the historic Old Central Bus use of indoor and outdoor spaces. In 2017, Adjaye received a knighthood Neve Sha’anan, Station in southern Tel Aviv. The Campus, Programs are currently being developed from Queen Elizabeth II for services Tel Aviv designed by world-renowned architect and produced in collaboration with to architecture and was named one Sir David Adjaye, includes two theaters, Tel Aviv's arts community and cultural of TIME’s 100 most influential people. "Batsheva have been incredible studios, professional facilities, and institutions, and the various community His largest project to date, the $540 partners in exploring new ways to community spaces all within a public organizations serving the the diverse million Smithsonian Institute National create contemporary art spaces that square. The strategic use of shade, trees populations currently residing in the Museum of African American History and establish deep connections between and water elements form a variety of southern metropolis. Culture, opened on the National Mall in their dancers, their audiences communal spaces to relax, engage and Washington DC in fall of 2016. and the community at large.” interact. The capital campaign for Batsheva’s Arts - Sir David Adjaye OBE Campus will provide the resources and Batsheva will establish an international means for Batsheva to finally build a Completion: 2022 Dance Center at the Arts Campus, opening home of its own. Lead Design: Sir David Adjaye OBE, in 2022, equipped with professional Adjaye Associates facilities of the highest quality, also serving Local Architect: Miko Arditty, as an international hub for Gaga teaching Sir David Adjaye is recognized as a Goldschmidt Arditty Ben Naim Architects and research. leading architect of his generation. Born Landscape Design: Lital Szmuk, TeMA, in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, his Architecture, Urban Landscape Design Left: Left: Casadio, Festival Ravenna, 2016. Right: Ravenna, Festival Casadio, Decadance by Ohad Naharin, dancers - Nitzan Ressler, Rani Lebzelter, Adi Zlatin. photo: Zani photo: Zlatin. Adi Rani Lebzelter, - Nitzan Ressler, Naharin, dancers Ohad by Naharin’s Virus Naharin’s , dancer - Londiwe Khoza. photo: Ascaf photo: Khoza. - Londiwe , dancer “I am surrounded by so many talented • Expanded the Gaga teacher- “I feel far more secure in myself now — The people and consistently exposed to training program for Company it’s a more present experience... such different forms of humanity. I and Ensemble dancers I am grounded and calm from Dancers feel lucky to be part of this place.” inside out, not outside in.” Nitzan Ressler, Company Dancer • Supported the annual creation - Londiwe Khoza, Dancer in A core aspect of our platform, Dancers Create, Batsheva - the Young Ensemble mission is to care for our for both companies dancers’ wellness and Nitzan Ressler was born in Jerusalem. welfare by continuing to During her early years, she danced with • Provided comprehensive Ohad Naharin mentored Londiwe Khoza, wellness treatments and cultivate them as artists, Hora Jerusalem and was the recipient of born in South Africa, as part of the The the 2008-2010 Israel-America Cultural upgraded accident insurance Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative performers, and teachers. Foundation education scholarship and in 2016. Naharin noted her "passion, the 2017 Yair Shapira award. Nitzan • Extended our foreign dancers’ curiosity, and talent" and granted her a joined Batsheva - the Young Ensemble visas under the newly amended Young Ensemble contract for the in 2010 and Batsheva Dance Company in 1952 Law of Entry to Israel 2017–2018 season. 2012. Batsheva Dance Company, an international Batsheva dance beacon, attracts exceptional Batsheva - the On Stage in 2017 dancers from all over the world. Over the Dancers course of 2017, Batsheva hosted more than Young Ensemble 800 dancers from 50 countries in various auditions, courses, and Gaga workshops. Dancers Chen Agron Mourad Bouayad Israel France Batsheva’s audience is comprised of young and old, 2017-2018 those near and far, dance- devotees, and newcomers. Season 96performances 64performances 55performances in Tel Aviv outside of abroad In 2017, we continued our Tel Aviv commitment to provide affordable ticket pricing and Etay Axelrod Billy Barry Yael Ben Ezer Thibaut Eiferman Ariel Gelbart Londiwe Khoza Israel USA Israel France Israel South Africa donated one-percent of all tickets to non-profits, sharing our work with as wide an Total audience as possible. performances 215 Matan Cohen Ben Green Hsin-Yi Hsiang Chun Woong Kim Shir Lewy Kornelia Maria Ohad Mazor Robin Lesley Nimanong Israel USA Taiwan South Korea Israel Tamara Lech Poland Israel Netherlands 31,000Viewers in Tel Aviv 19,000Viewers outside Viewers60,000 abroad of Tel Aviv Rani Lebzelter Hugo Marmelada Eri Nakamura Nitzan Ressler Evyatar Omessy Igor Ptashenchuk Roni Rahamim Tamar Rosenzweig Israel Portugal Japan Israel Israel Ukraine Israel Israel Total viewers 110,000 Yoni (Yonatan) Simon Kyle Sheurich Maayan Sheinfeld Amalia Smith Hani Sirkis Xanthe van Opstal Nicolas Ventura Paul Vickers Israel USA Israel Canada Israel Netherlands Guatemala USA Portraits by Roee Dori Roee Portraits by Capacity at Suzanne Dellal, Batsheva’s current home theater in Tel Aviv Imre van Opstal Zina (Natalia) Erez Zohar Adi Zlatin Amit Landau • Yasmin Mahmoud • Tom Nissim • Shaked Werner • Netherlands Zinchenko Russia Israel Israel Apprentice Israel Apprentice USA Apprentice Israel Apprentice Israel 93% Venezuela World Premiere Viewers by Ohad Naharin Venezuela premiered to critical and Worldwide popular acclaim; international tours in 2017 have already been secured through 16,000 2020. As in previous years, Venezuela was co-produced with leading cultural institutions in Paris and Dresden. Venezuela by Ohad Naharin, photo: Ascaf Naharin, photo: Ohad by “Venezuela is supernatural...17 dancers sweep the stage for an hour and a half with energy that no one can avoid or resist.” -Dorion Weickmann, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2017 International Restaged Dancers Batsheva Tours Works Create Hosts In 2017, both companies staged 55 Over the past year, Batsheva - Young Batsheva has continued