Lina Goncharsky

How the Jerusalem Ballet transforms historical trauma into a choreography of survival There are moments when all you can do is reach for a pen and let it spill.If ballet criticism has its own black square, Nadya Timofeyeva has drawn it here with the bodies of her dancers, inscribing it onto a tiny patch of studio space where the distance between the spectator and the abyss collapses to the length of an outstretched arm. You find yourself in tears—out of wonder, out of a stunned disbelief that...

A conversation with Dr. Ayelet Giladi, Chairwoman of The Jerusalem Ballet, about the surprising connections between violence prevention and choreography—and why, today, ballet can speak to the world in ways words cannot. Sometimes life brings you into a completely unexpected world—and that encounter turns out to be transformative for both sides. That’s exactly what happened to her: an outstanding scholar who spent three decades combating sexual violence against children and developing unique...

A doll is always a bridge between reality and imagination, no matter what we may think. At times it even seems that human culture itself...