April 12 . 13 2024
Moody Performance Hall
Cover Photo by Todd Rosenberg | Courtesy of Giordano Dance Chicago
Nothing Replaces The LIVE Experience - This is our mantra this year. It is time to get back to celebrating the arts in person, with shared experiences and inspiration. So often, I leave the theater awe-struck at what I’ve just experienced; that’s what we aim for. This season will not disappoint.
Dance is such a distinct art form. Luminous, arduous, meaningful and inspiring. “I’m overwhelmed; this was not what I expected.” This is the reaction I most often hear from audiences, something our longtime subscribers have always known. Our 40+ years of experience affords TITAS the unique perspective of looking back and appreciating the amazing impact that high-quality, curatorial arts presentation has on a community, on a city.
TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND continues to present the most innovative, the most remarkable artists touring the world today. It’s time for all of us to return to the extraordinary shared performance experience, to leave our devices off and experience art with all our senses. Nothing Replaces the LIVE Experience!!!
The 2023:24 season won’t disappoint. International, creative and breathtaking imagery makes this an exceptional set of the world’s most interesting movement artists. We proudly present a season of ten extraordinary companies from the United States, Japan, Canada, Israel and France. Four of these companies are making their Texas/Dallas debuts with TITAS.
Thank you for being a part of another year of breathtaking performances, and thank you for actively engaging in the arts and for being a part of the TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND and AT&T Performing Arts Center family.
What we do together, truly does make a difference.
Charles Santos, Executive Director/Artistic Director
TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND
Choreographer Noa Wertheim
MAKOM (65 Minutes)
Co-Choreographer Rina Wertheim-Koren
Dancers Creators
Etai Peri Sian Olles Eden Ben Shimol Noa Rachel Israely
Micah Aimos Ruth Ben David Ilan Golubovich
Alma Kravat Shemesh Tommaso Zuchegna
Music
Ran Bagno Musicians
Cello | Hila Epstein
Lighting Design
Dan Fishof - Magenta
Costume Design
Kedem Sasson
Violin | Galia Hai
Stage Design
Zohar Shoef
Stage Design Execution
Dani Goldenberg - Vertigo Eco Art Village
Company Manager
Sandra Brown
Makom, a perpetual search of a return to the place that brings us closer to ourselves.
Makom in Hebrew means “place” and describes a real or imaginary location.
Makom can also be a spiritual refuge, a home, wherever.
Vertigo Dance Company is, in part, made possible with the support of:
Artists’ Representative
Brent Belsher, Belsher Arts Management brent@ltddanse.com
TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND SEASON SPONSORS
Company Philosophy
Vertigo is a contemporary dance company, offering a physical meeting place for artists and audience. Vertigo takes the viewer every time to a new or an unexpected, exciting and challenging journey into unfamiliar territories. Vertigo represents international standards of artistic excellence, with a social and community touch.
We see Vertigo as a messenger of Israeli Art at its best, at home and abroad, that comes to bring people closer together and touch them through the language of the body. As such, the company combines, in addition to its performances, master classes, workshops, co-productions with other companies from around the world and invites artists from different fields to create together with the company.
The community branch of Vertigo includes the Dance School, which operates alongside the company and enables everyone to study dance; the Vertigo Dance Workshop, which provides a professional framework for training dancers. Performances and workshops for every community, including the disabled, out of the belief that the dance language of Vertigo is unique yet universal and challenges the limits of the body.
Noa Wertheim, shortly after her graduation from the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Noa Wertheim was accepted into the Jerusalem Tamar Dance Company. It was there she met Adi Sha’al whose professional dance experience included both the Bat-Sheva Ensemble and the Kibbutz Dance Workshop. Partners in life and dance, Wertheim and Sha’al founded the Vertigo Dance Company in 1992.
Wertheim and Sha’al’s first professional collaboration, a short duet called Vertigo, led to the establishment of their company of the same name. The inspiration came from the first-hand experience Adi had with the sensation of vertigo during his years in training with the air force. Vertigo – the performance – was built upon the concept of spinning out of control, not just in the air, but in relationships as well. Sha’al remarks, “Noa and I created a piece which looks at the loss of direction – the dizziness – in the human duet.”
COMMAND PERFORMANCE / TITAS GALA
APRIL 27
2024 | 6PM
Winspear Opers House
WHO’S WHO
Noa Wertheim | Artistic Director/Choreographer/Co-Founder | The artistic director and choreographer of the Vertigo Dance Company, was born in the United States in 1965 and grew up in Israel where she first studied dance in Netanya. After three years of military service in the developing town of Yeruham, Wertheim completed her dance studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in 1990 and, in 1992, together with Adi Sha’al, founded the Vertigo Dance Company, which is based in Jerusalem and in the Vertigo Eco Art Village in the Ella Valley where she lives with Sha’al and their three sons.
Under the artistic direction of Wertheim, who is an Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the internationally acclaimed Vertigo Dance Company has begun its third decade with an impressive repertoire of original works choreographed by Wertheim, whose distinct dance language inspires dance students and artists by encouraging interpersonal communication and community involvement.
Beyond her contribution to cultural life in Israel, Wertheim’s unique approach promotes social change by creating an artistic connection with the community and the environment, and this has been evident in the Vertigo Dance educational School, founded in Jerusalem in 1997, the Vertigo Eco Art Village, founded in Kibbutz Netiv Halamed-Hen in 2007, and in The Power of Balance, a dance program for inclusion of the disabled.
Photo Courtesy of Vertigo
Micah Aimos | dancer | (30) grew up in Kibbutz Kfar-Blum where he started dancing at the Clore Center for Music and Dance and continued a year's training at the dance training program in Ga'aton.
At the age of 17 he joined the young Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC2) between the years 2007-2009. In September 2010, Micah joined the Vertigo Dance Company.
Etai Peri | dancer | born in 1987, in Afula, Israel, Etai began dancing at the age of 4 at the Gafni School of Dance with Denise Peri. He further pursued his training at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Summer School in London as well as with the Netherlands Dans Theater (NDT) program in Hague. Winner of three scholarship awards from the AmericaIsrael Cultural Foundation, in 2006 he won third prize at the Mia Arbatova Ballet Competition. Throughout his prolific career as a dancer he danced with the Bat-Dor Dance Company directed by Jeannette Ordman and with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company working alongside leading choreographers such as Rami Be’er, Idan Sharabi and Krisztina de Châtel. In November 2014, Etai joined the Vertigo Dance Company.
Tommaso Zuchegna | dancer | born in Italy in 1998. Tommaso started dancing at the age of 8 at Pontedera Danza in Pontedera and continued his studies with Axe Ballet in Pistoia. During this time, he participated in numerous dance competitions. In 2016, he participated in the Alvin Ailey School Summer Intensive, and then he joined the Dance Intensive Program (DIP) at “AED”, Livorno. Tommaso advanced his studies at Codarts Rotterdam in 2017, from where he graduated in 2021. During his last year he joined Scapino Ballet Rotterdam as an intern under the direction of Ed Wubbe for one season. Dancer in Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company between October 2021 - August 2023. Joined Vertigo Dance Company in August 2023.
Photo Courtesy of Vertigo
Ruth Ben David | dancer | born in Jerusalem in 1998. She started dancing at Tamara Mialnik studio where she fell in love with dance. From 2014-2017 she attended the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and from 2017-2018 she trained at the Dance Training Workshop in Kibbutz Ga’aton. From 2018-2021 Ruth danced in the Young Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company Joined Vertigo Dance Company in 2021 where she is still dancing today.
Ilan Golubovich | dancer | born in 1997, in Israel , Ilan graduated from Thelma yelin school of arts in 2015. Since then danced in few dance company’s in Israel: Kamea, Fresco , Kibbutz , Jerusalem Ballet. And more independent creators. Dancer with dafi Altabeb dance company since 2019. Dancer with vertigo since 2021.
Alma Karvat Shemesh | dancer | born in 1998 in Herzeliya, Israel. She studied dance at the Thelma Yellin High-School of Arts, and graduated from the Maslool - Professional Dance Program Bikurey Ha'Itim directed by Naomi Perlov and Ofir Dagan. Between 2018-2022 she danced in Batsheva Dance company- The young ensemble, where she performed works by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Bobbie Jene Smith and Or Schreiber, Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof, Noa Eshkol, Nava Frenkel, amongst others. As a freelance dancer, Alma worked with choreographers such as Bossmat Nossan, Gilad Yerushalmi, Béatrice Larrivée, Cèsar Broderman and more. Currently, Alma is a dancer with Vertigo Dance company and a certified Gaga teacher.
Noa Rachel Israely | dancer | born in 1994 in Haifa, Israel and was raised in Alon Haglil. Noa began dancing in the age of 4 in the Arts Emeq Izrael School. In 2015 she studied for two years at the training program Dance Workshop Gaaton. Between 2018-2020 she danced at the Kibutz Contemporary Dance Company. Between 2020-2022 studied for B.A for Dance and Education at Seminar Hakibutzim College. In the same years, she was certified as a senior teacher of Ashtanga yoga and feminine yoga. In 2022 she started to perform with The Birth of the Phoenix by Vertigo Dance Company and few months after joined the Vertigo Dance Company as a dancer.
Sian Olles | dancer | born in 1991, in Jerusalem, Sian studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. In the years 2004-2006 she was awarded full study scholarships from The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and a study scholarship from the AAB New York, USA. Upon graduating, in September 2009, she danced with The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for two years on Kibbutz Ga’aton. Sian joined the Vertigo Dance Company in August 2011. Between 2016-2019 Sian danced with Eyal Dadon in SOL Dance Company. Sian is a certified Mat and Reformer Pilates instructor from Tel Aviv University.
Eden Ben Shimol | dancer | was born in 1995, in Rosh Pina, Israel, where she started to dance at the age of six, under the management of Anat Frank. Eden graduated from the Maslool Professional Dance Program in Tel Aviv directed by Naomi Perlov and Ofir Dagan. In 2017 Eden joined the young Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and in 2018 she joined the Kolben Dance Company. Eden has a B.Ed in Dance Education and she is a certified Mat Pilates and Yoga instructor. Eden joined the Vertigo Dance Company in November 2019.
Photo Courtesy of Vertigo
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