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Henia Rottenberg

Henia Rottenberg is a senior lecturer at the Department of Theatre Studies, Western Galilee College, Israel, and lectures at Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. Her research interests are history and aesthetics of theatrical dance in Israel and the dialogue between dance and visual arts in postmodern culture. Rottenberg is one of the founders of The Israeli Society for Dance Research (2012). Her last published co-edited book is Moving Through Contact: Dance and Politics in Israel (Routledge, 2019).

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Ruth Eshel

Dancer, choreographer, and dance researcher Ruth Eshel has been a major contributor to the development of theatrical dance in Israel. She played an important role in the experimental dance scene of the 1970s and 1980s. She also formed the Eskesta Dance Theater and Beta Dance Troupe, focused on Ethiopian Jewish dance, and has written extensively about the history of dance in Israel.