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This year, we open the Tel Aviv Dance Festival with hearts full of gratitude, remembrance, and homage — to Yair Vardi.
Yair, who founded and led the Suzanne Dellal Centre for over three decades, passed away this year. What he built here was not only a physical structure, but a far-reaching cultural vision — a deep belief that Israeli dance deserves a stage, a home, and a place of honor. With unwavering dedication and boundless creativity, Yair turned a vision into reality.
The Tel Aviv Dance Festival — which he initiated, nurtured, and accompanied over the years — continues.
Its very existence this year, against a backdrop of ongoing war, deepening societal rifts, and the persistent uncertainty of daily life, is a profound choice to say: We continue.
We continue to create, to move, to dream.
Tel Aviv Dance Festival 2025 focuses on the local scene — on Israeli creation.
We’ve chosen to shine a spotlight on the choreographers working and creating here.
Seven premieres, dozens of new works, a program for emerging choreographers — a local mosaic of movement that faces reality head-on, without flinching.
These works are not only dance — they are testimony, inquiry, reflection. Each tells a story about this moment in time, about this place.
Alongside them, an international bridge: two artists coming here in solidarity, with a belief in the body’s power to speak truth — even when words fall short:
Julyen Hamilton from the UK, Charlie Sanctago from Austria.
Beyond the stage, we invite audiences to take part in open rehearsals in the main courtyard, film screenings, and diverse collaborations — spaces that bring dance closer to new audiences and blur the boundaries between the maker and the spectator.
We thank everyone walking this path with us: our devoted team, our partners, the artists — and you, our beloved audience, who continue to choose culture.
Amid all of this, we do not forget: those who are not with us, those who are missing, their families, and the ongoing call for their return.
We look forward to seeing you at the festival,
Anat Fischer Leventon and Naomi Perlov
Suzanne Dellal Centre Team
About Suzanne Dellal Centre
The Home for Dance in Israel
Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre is Israel’s premier presenter of Israeli and international dance. Established in 1989, Suzanne Dellal Centre cultivates the art of contemporary dance in Israel. The Centre offers diverse performances, events, festivals, programs, residencies, and workshops from the worlds of contemporary dance and performing arts. The Centre has launched dozens of innovative programs to nurture and support new work and emerging artists, providing platforms to expose young artists and bring dance to new audiences. Today, as the dance ecosystem of Israel continues to grow and flourish, the Suzanne Dellal Centre remains an anchor of the scene, presenting and producing hundreds of performances each year and hosting festivals and programs which offer opportunities for dance artists in all stages of development.
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