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 Noa Dar & Dance Group
Noa Dar, choreographer and artistic director of The Noa Dar Dance Group, was born in kibbutz Degania , where she started her dance training. At 18, she was invited to join the Bat-sheva Ensemble.
Following a grant she received from Merce Cunningham, she moved to New York and danced with the companies of: Zvi Gotheiner, Jeanette Stoner and Neta Pulvelmacher.
In 1986, Noa was a founding member of the artistic collective - Tamar Dance Company, where she began to choreograph.
During 1990-92, Noa created in Paris, supported by grants from the “America-Israel Cultural Foundation” and the French government.
In 1993 she established The Noa Dar Dance Group in Tel Aviv, together with eight dancers, musicians and visual artists who are partners to the creation process and for developing a unique movement and visual language.
Since then, Noa Created 26 works commissioned by the major Israeli festivals: “Israel Festival”, “Curtain Up”, “Accor Festival for Alternative Theater”, and works for young Audience in the frame of “The Children’s’ Sound festival.
The company is performing intensively throughout the year in Israel and abroad.
Among it’s International tours, where major festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and South America.
Noa Dar is a recipient of a numerous awards and grants, among them -
- · 1996: Dar was awarded the Minister of Culture Prize for her outstanding choreography.
- · 1997: Dar was a recipient of a creation grant from Bi-Arts, supported by the British Council.
- · 2002: The Group received the Minister of Culture’s prize for excellence in performance.
- · 2006:“Tetris” received an award of excellence from the 2006 "Accor Festival for Alternative Theater".
- · 2008: Dar was awarded the performing arts Rosenblum Prize for her artistic excellence in dance choreography, from the City of Tel-Aviv.
- · 2009: Dar was awarded the Minister of Culture’s Creation Prize, for her achievements in choreography.
- · 2010: Dar was awarded the Landau Prize, from the National lottery Council for the Arts, for her contribution as a dance creator to Israeli culture.
Among her recent works: "The silent one who is waiting for its turn" (2010) - commissioned by the "Spirit Dance" festival at The Lab Theater in Jerusalem. In 2009 - “Anu” (Us) – A work commissioned for the special addition of Curtain Up’s 20est anniversary. “The switched heads” (08) – A theater work, commissioned and produced by the “Inter - discipline Arena” in Jerusalem and performed by a cast of Arabs and Jews actors and dancers. “Arnica”(07) commissioned by the Israel Festival, “Tetris” (06) – commissioned and produced by the Accor Festival , and the duo -“The sweetest embrace”(05).
Noa Dar Dance Group is giving regular classes at The Noa Dar Studio, workshops and lecture demonstration for dance students and the public.
The group is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports (the dance division), the Israeli Lottery council for the arts, The Tel Aviv Municipality, The Rabinovich Foundation and The cultural relations department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Latest works by Noa Dar:
The Silent who is waiting for his turn (2010): Poem: Sha’ul Tchernichovsky, Music re-composing: Aric Shapira, Singer: Renee Khoury, Dancer: Noa Dar, Premiere: Spirit Dance Festival, Duration: 15 Min.
"I believe” – Sha’ul Tchernichovsky's canonical poem, written in the late 19th century in Russia – expressed the poet's Social –humanistic and Zionistic wishes for a personal, social and national freedom. Current validity of the text is examined here by translating it from Hebrew to Arabic and changing the speaker’s identity from a Jewish man to a Palestinian woman.
Anu (Us) (2009) - Dancers: Coralie Ladam, Alon Bracha, Noa Shilo, Original Music and editing: Roy Yarkoni, Premiere: Curtain Up Festival, Duration: 45 Min.
A story of an individual identity, which was formed by a society that became withdrawn, emotionally opaque and uniformly thinking; national myths, history and private biography, woven together in a tangle of influences that dictate its life course.
“It is a deep and rationalistic dance, full of symbol’s and humor, with political implications to the place we live in.” Ruth Eshel, “Ha’aretz”, 30.11.09
"Arnica” (2007) - Dancers: Michal Mualem, Shira Rinot, Noa Dar. Guest Artist: Uri Frost on electric guitar. Music: Tom Waits, Handel, Courinderu, Purcell. Duration: 55 Min.
Arnica collects and presents 17 short solos (1-4 min.) created during the last decade. Laying these solos side by side enables a retrospective observation which examines difference, contradiction and similarity of an inner world and relation with its environment.
“Arnica by Noa Dar becomes a fascinating touching dance evening, which succeeds to make these series of solo excerpts into a full, complex, multi-layers creation that deeply touches the routes of dance and at the essence of the dancers' art” ( Zvi Goren, “Habama”)
“Tetris” (2006) - A Collaboration with visual artist Nati Shamia Ofer. Original music created by Composer Uri Frost, 7 dancers. Commissioned by the Acco Festival for Alternative Theater. Duration: 80 min.
Tetris is touching upon the tensions between movement andfixation, proximity and distance, between the estrangement of alienation and aninvolving, mutual experience.
“Tetris is a spectacular creation, releasing from the body excitement and shock, causing turbulent and mind stimulated interactions between dancers and spectators.” ("Citymouse" online)
“Water Music” (2006) - Performed with live orchestra, to music by Frederick Handel, six dancers. Commissioned by The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra. Duration: 30 min.
“Clouds and Soup” (2005) Original music by Israeli composer Avi Belleli, 8 dancers. Commissioned by 2005 “Curtain Up” festival at the SuzanneDellalCenter. Duration: 65 min.
“Clouds and Soup” deals with the world in which we would have wished to live in which stretches out at the gap between the desire to fulfill our dream – and reality. The fantasy developed up to the point where reality pulls us back.
"Noa Dar's new work is sharp, spectacular and joyful.”Clouds and soup" left us with a taste for more. An emotional drama made in good taste. In contradiction to the noisy inclination of Israeliculture of the "ready made", she serves us with a rare chill of movement, with explosions of breath taking vibes, as she always does. Avi Belleli's music is perfect." (Ido Dagan, Zman Tel Aviv)
“The Sweetest Embrace” (2004) – A 20 min duet, created as part of a duet evening for the Noa Dar Dance Group: "20, 30, 40”, with works by three Israeli woman choreographers.Choreographers: Renana Raz, Ronit Ziv, Noa Dar (of the ages 20+30+40+), each created a duet, investigating the encounter between a man and a woman from her age’s point of view.
"It is an original and impressive duet. Noa Dar created a real master piece that revealed a crystallized Choreographic vision (Zvi Goren, "Habama")
"In a black, black land” (2003) - performed by six dancers and an actress, commissioned by the Israel festival. Duration: 65 Min. Original Music: Uri Frost
The work deals with despair and nightmares of a society that lives in an ominous reality – a reality that brings forth the dreams of fear and horror from the unconscious.
“This is the best Israeli dance I’ve seen this year, and one of the best post-modern works I’ve ever seen” (Gal Alster,”Time out – Tel Aviv”).
Works for children:
"Children's Games" (2002) Dar’s first work for children: "Children' Games" follows Pieter Brueghel's 16th century masterpiece – "Children' games" and focuses on the microcosms of the playground where children play with totality of being, as a preparation and a mirror to the grown-ups’ life.
Both works were commissioned by “Childhood sounds” festival.
"Noa Dar dance Group respects the young and teaches them with fun and lightness, what is a real culture." (Micahl Sharon, "Yedioth Aharonot")
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