What is dance writing today? How can we capture an ephemeral performance in words? The Israeli dance community is as active as ever. The Israeli dance community is as active as ever. Yet, with the downsizing of cultural reporting in media publications, dance is receiving dwindling attention.
This year marks the first-ever collaboration between Tel Aviv Dance and Creative Writing.
Creative Writing is an online platform for writing about dance, performance, and theater. The website was established by artist and journalist Ori Lenkinski to challenge the conventions of writing about dance, on dance, in dance, and around dance.
We believe artists don’t create just so that they can wait for one person to say if their work was good or bad. We create to touch people, communicate, and share our reflections on the world with others. Creative Writing is about making space for artists to reflect on one another’s works, broadening the possibilities for writing about performance, and fostering a deeper, freer discourse.
The website hosts writers, all of whom are artists, who attend performances and respond to them. The style of each response is determined by the writer’s experience of the performance.
During Tel Aviv Dance, the Creative Writing team will attend and respond to the select performances in the program.
The collaboration will culminate in a panel discussion in which the Creative Writing team will discuss their practices for crafting meaningful responses to performances and share their visions for the future of dance writing.
In our live event, the Creative Writing team will discuss their practices for crafting meaningful responses to performances and share their visions for the future of dance writing.
Creative Writing is an online platform for writing about dance, performance, and theater. Creative Writing was founded in 2016 by Ori Lenkinski.
Creative Writing is run by founder and editor Ori Lenkinski. Our writers include Yulia Frydin, Joy Bernard, Eden Kramer, Ella Greenbaum, Jenny Birger, Liza Futerman, and Heather DeAtley.