Movement and Dance, History of World and Israeli Dance
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Ruth Eshel was trained as a dancer. She studied classical
ballet with Archipova Grossman and modern dance with Rina Gluck. She
was a member of the Bat-Sheva Company. Since 1977
she has performed in many dance theatre concerts of her own in Israel and
abroad. Her various performances often evolved out of collaboration with
other Israeli artists, such as sculptors Avraham Ofek and Daliah Meiri, or
composers Joseph Dorfman and Zippi Fleischer. In 1982 she obtained her
BA in Humanities from the New College of California, and in 1990
her Master degree in Theatre from the University
of Quebec at Montreal.
In 1986, after twenty years on stage, Eshel retired from dancing and
choreographing, and started to write. She authored Dancing
with the Dream: The Development of Artistic Dance in Israel 1920-1964,
and contributed articles on dance to The Hebrew
Encyclopedia. She is now the co-editor of Israel Dance
Quarterly and dance critic for the daily Ha'aretz
. Since 1991, Eshel has been lecturing on the history of dance and
held workshops in dance composition at the University of Haifa. In 1996,
joining the Department of Theatre, she formed the University of Haifa's Eskesta Dance Theatre, under the auspices of the
Department of Theatre and the Department of General Studies.
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