Choreographer Orly Portal is the winner of the Israel Minister of Culture
Orly Portal is the winner of the Israel Minister of Culture and Sport's 2018 Yithak Navon prize to promote and preserve the diverse culture of Israel
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Orly Portal is the winner of the Israel Minister of Culture and Sport's 2018 Yithak Navon prize to promote and preserve the diverse culture of Israel
Everything is movement. The voice is a dance, the music of the body. It is through dance, Gnawa hymns and Sudanese slave songs that Beijo's original music emerges. The singing of tribal ceremonies, normally performed by men, is here carried by a female voice which, associated with Portuguese lyrics and Brazilian rhythms, awakens a sense of identity and freedom. Thanks to their voices and their instruments, the dancers weave between them a delicate bond, unsubdued to the shackles of time, culture, geography and genre.
Premiere: November 2017, Jerusalem
Shattering the myth of falling in love while dedicatedly embracing the feminine body, infused with the classical music created by Farid El-Atrache, the eternal lover –
"Spring returns again greeted by the moon with grace
Where has my lover gone casting me out from love paradise and into flames..."
Premiere: March 2016, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
"20 years of dance and Russian discipline could not straighten my sagging shoulders".