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Is art ever not healing - a deep dive into why we dance and create with Hagit Yakira.
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"The purpose of dance is people" Hagit Yakira
Speak to anyone who works in community dance and you’ll quickly learn two things. One, those who work with groups from outside the dance world care deeply about it. Two, the list of benefits – mental, physical and social – for those involved is almost endless. Indeed, as Anna Halprin, renowned community dance practitioner, states in her book Making Dance that Matters, dance of this kind can ‘bring communities together to encounter issues that may be overwhelming, unresolved, destructive or even life-threatening’. But how do dance teachers and choreographers work with the non professionals who take part in community dance? And does it involve a different set of skills to working with professionals?
Gazette Magazine
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Free Falling
If one ‘does’ dance fully – there is a promise that there will be a constant personal development – mentally, physically and intellectually.
...the work of a rare choreographer who knows what she wants and knows how to get it and then gives it to you.
Contemporary dance, like its visual art equivalent, can have a bad reputation.... it doesn’t really seem like the people speaking the language want you to know it. Hagit Yakira’s work stands out because it radiates generosity. It feels like it wants you to understand, to share with you its ideas...
It takes some skill and professionalism to pull off something like this, and choreographer Hagit Yakira has it in spades.
Londondance.com
Yakira does not so much create a performance as encapsulate a state of being. Free Falling is a subdued, almost hypnotic work, emphasised by composer Sabio Janiak’s equally soft and lulling music, but it is none the less engaging.
...in the middle with you
The format is esoteric, the mood is warm—a winning combination
Here is something akin to a ‘lightness of spirit’ at work in the most genuine sense.
Londondance.com
Her choreography is lined throughout with a warmth and intimacy that radiates into the audience, drawing us into these engaging dancers’ eclectic episodes of activity.
it is one that affords no excuse to decline an opportunity to witness it.
it is one that affords no excuse to decline an opportunity to witness it.
one runs the gamut of pretty much all human emotions throughout the show’s duration.