This text gives a theoretical and sensible framework for the teaching of dance in education. Noa Eshkol is represented in the exhibition with the wall carpet, Zodiac”, and through archival materials: illustrations by Abraham Wachman and John G. Harries from Movement Notation” (1958), images by Shosh Kormosh documenting Eshkol’s dances, posters for the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group, and movies of performances by which Eshkol gives instruction.
The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé declared that the dancer, writing together with her physique, suggests things which the written work may categorical solely in a number of paragraphs of dialogue or descriptive prose.” As a result of dance movements are closely related to the gestures of extraordinary life, the emotions they express may be immediately understood, partly by means of a visible appreciation of the gesture and partly by means of a sympathetic kinesthetic response.
Beginning with the premise that ‘dance may be greatest explained by dancing’ Laban proposed to ‘treat dance as a science, no less than as a discipline.’ On condition that there ‘exists no generally accepted grammar of dance which may very well be the rational basis for the dialogue of dance’ he analysed the body as an instrument, ‘nothing …