In her book Dance Spreads Its Wings: Concert Dance in Israel, 1920–2000, dance researcher Ruth Eshel shares the history of Israeli dance from its early twentieth-century origins, through examinations of its artistic tendencies over time. Sources of inspiration for this dance came from without and within Israel’s borders: Eshel examines how outside influences were woven into the local fabric and brings to life, as well, the obstacles confronting the development of this young Israeli art. She reveals, with abundant details, the companies, artists, and aesthetic trends that have characterized Israeli dance. This book fills a critical gap both because no such comprehensive book on the topic has yet appeared and because Eshel’s work reveals the fascinations of an Israeli art genre, born only at the beginning of the twentieth century, that today has become a leading force in the dance worldwide. Ruth Eshel, now aged seventy-five, is a dance researcher, choreographer, and dancer. She was the first in Israel to publish wide-ranging books on dance and was also renowned as an important groundbreaker in the experimental language of Israeli alternative dance. When asked in an interview how she saw her role as a dance critic, she responded, “As a vision and as a mission. The language of movement was always the most important in my eyes—I wasn’t interested in the story behind the dance. I came as an avant-garde choreographer, who was looking for refreshing things.” As in her critical writing, Eshel’s writing in Dance Spreads Its Wings is marked by a rigorous search for words to express the movement language she is discussing in as fresh, tangible, and unmediated a manner as possible. Eshel examines her subject from two perspectives: that of a veteran researcher providing an overview of the historical processes and trends in Israeli dance since its inception, and that of a dancer and creator in her own right, participating in the most significant dance movements in Israel. The book also contains rare photographs from exciting and important

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从梦想到现实：以色列舞蹈

舞蹈研究人员 Ruth Eshel 在她的著作《舞动翅膀：以色列的音乐会舞蹈，1920-2000》中，通过对其艺术趋势的检验，分享了以色列舞蹈从 20 世纪早期起源的历史。这种舞蹈的灵感来源来自以色列境内外：Eshel 研究了外部影响如何融入当地结构，以及如何将这种年轻的以色列艺术发展所面临的障碍带入生活。她以丰富的细节揭示了以色列舞蹈的特点的公司、艺术家和审美趋势。这本书填补了一个关键的空白，因为还没有关于这个主题的如此全面的书出现，而且因为埃舍尔的作品揭示了以色列艺术流派的魅力，它诞生于二十世纪初，今天已成为全球舞蹈的主导力量。现年 75 岁的 Ruth Eshel 是一名舞蹈研究员、编舞和舞者。她是以色列第一个出版范围广泛的舞蹈书籍的人，也是以色列另类舞蹈实验语言的重要开创者。当在一次采访中被问及她如何看待自己作为舞蹈评论家的角色时，她回答说：“作为一种愿景和使命。在我看来，动作语言一直是最重要的——我对舞蹈背后的故事不感兴趣。我是作为一名前卫的编舞者来到这里的，他一直在寻找令人耳目一新的东西。” 与她的批判性写作一样，埃舍尔在《舞动翅膀》中的写作以严格的词语搜索为标志，以尽可能新鲜、有形和无中介的方式表达她正在讨论的运动语言。Eshel 从两个角度审视了她的主题：一位资深研究人员概述了自以色列舞蹈成立以来的历史进程和趋势，以及一位舞蹈家和创作者凭借自己的力量参与了以色列最重要的舞蹈运动. 这本书还包含了令人兴奋和重要的罕见照片