Foto Friday – Dance at the Tel Aviv Port

June 10, 2011 - 5:41 PM by Rachel Neiman

Tel Aviv based Uri Rubinstein is a freelance stage lighting designer and technical director who also doubles as a talented stage photographer. Yesterday, Rubenstein was down at the Tel Aviv port, documenting Rokdim Ba-Namal, a dance happening celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Israeli Choreographers Association (ICA).

About 60 artists and dancers presented excerpts from various works choreographed by ICA members. Despite the heat, Rubinstein says, the event was a party, with all credit due to the dancers, choreographers and all others involved in setting up multiple stages under a broiling sun.

The idea behind Rokdim Ba-Namal is using the existing environment as both backdrop and dance space to create interesting, different and diverse works.

Aside from a few props, the performances took place without sets or lighting, making passersby and fishermen part of the stage scenery…

An airplane heading towards the Sde Dov airport landing strip becomes a dramatic overhead element…

And street lights illuminate the works at dusk…

The audience was also invited to get into the act, joining tribal fusion choreographer Sigal Ziv in a belly-dancing flash mob.

There are plenty more photos by Uri Rubinstein on view at his Facebook page. Video from Rokdim Ba-Namal hasn’t been posted on their YouTube channel so, in the meanwhile, enjoy the sights and sounds from a previous ICA happening, Dance Galil Mountain.