Israel festival
Jerusalem highlights: July 24-30
What’s new to do in Israel’s capital?
Israeli Comedy Festival returns for its fourth year to bring laughs for everyone
Jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen to unload post-October 7 angst at Israel Festival
Summer’s here! A snapshot of Jerusalem's warm-weather activities to enjoy
Clowning about… seriously
Swiss performer Martin Zimmermann blurs the lines between the inanimate and the living in ‘Hallo’
Sounds good – and looks good, too
“Music is a living medium formed between people at a given moment, in a unique form. It comes into being at a particular time and in a spontaneous manner.”
Crowds, power and performance
Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin brings ‘Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People’ to the Israel Festival
Pop-up performance party
FestiVan will take music, dance and poetry to Jerusalem’s streets.
Israel Festival 2019: From the directors’ desks
In the 1980s, mayor Teddy Kollek managed to move the Festival to Jerusalem, and already then it began to enlarge the scope to include other arts, such as theater and dance.
A slice of life
“Somehow, how I look at the world comes out of being Jewish, first-generation South African, and being involved in the breaking down of apartheid. It is my point of reference," Orlin said.
Is this dance?
“I think that dance can fight for more freedom and stretch the borders of what this art form is. We can go beyond the borders of technique and find what dance can say.”
