| Israel Ballet | |
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| General information | |
| Name | Israel Ballet |
| Year founded | 1967 |
| Founders | Berta Yampolsky andHillel Markman |
| Principal venue | Tel Aviv Opera House[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
| Senior staff | |
| Chief Executive | Lea Lavie |
| Director | Amit Somekh |
| Artistic staff | |
| Artistic Director | Сlaire Bayliss Nagar[1] |
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| Official school | The Classical Ballet Center |
| Formation | Principal Soloist Corps de Ballet |
TheIsrael Ballet is a dance company that performs 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.
The company resides in the new Israel Ballet center in Tel Aviv, equipped with the biggest rehearsal hall in Israel with 250 seats.The Israel Ballet represented Israel in tours around the world and in important festivals in Europe, Asia and America.
FoundersBerta Yampolsky andHillel Markman gave the first performance of the Israel Ballet on January 25, 1967, with a group of four young dancers, inHolon.George Balanchine granted permission to perform his workSerenade in 1975, and in 1981 he gave free performance rights to all of his works to the company.[2]
The Israel Ballet has its own facilities in Tel Aviv. These facilities include a formal school of ballet, called The Classical Ballet Center, that is the leading Israeli institute.
The Israel Ballet has manyGeorge Balanchine works in its current repertoire, thanks to his generosity in giving the company free performance rights. Balanchine works in the repertoire includeSymphony in C,Square Dance,La Valse,Concerto Barocco andThe Four Temperaments. Also in the repertoire are modern works by choreographers such asChristian Spuck,Rudi van Danzig,Jan Lincolns,Lar Lubovitch, andKrzysztof 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 forSleeping Beauty andThe Nutcracker. The Israel Ballet has a number of full-length classical ballets in its repertoire, includingOnegin,Giselle,Don Quixote,Romeo and Juliet andCinderella.[4]
The Israel Ballet recently added a well-received new modern work to its repertoire, the "post-Forsyth"Hikarizatto byItzik Galili.[5]
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