Dr. Ruth Eshel, formerly a professional dancer and choreographer, has appeared with various dance companies, including the well-known Batsheva Dance Company. She has performed recitals of experimental dance and chamber dance programs (1977-1986), for which she also was choreographer. The author of Dancing with the Dream—The Development of Artistic Dance in Israel, 1920-1964, she is the founder and editor of the quarterly Dancetoday– The Dance Magazine of Israel and a dance critic for the Hebrew daily Ha`aretz. Her thesis for Ph.d from University of Tel Aviv is about Dance Theatre in Israel 1977-1991. Upon the request of the Dance Library of Israel, Eshel made documentation research about the dance of Ethiopian Jewry. She established the Eskesta Dance Theater (1995-2005) at the University of Haifa and Beta Dance Troupe in 2005. Ruth Eshel has received an honor of excellent for creating contemporary dance inspired by the Ethiopian eskesta, from the Ethiopian Ambassador to Israel.

Kevin studied at Regent Street Polytechnic, photography and Film School in London. After serving as Chief electrician at the Shaftsbury Theater, he joined the Royal Shakespeare company as Assistant chief until he immigrated to Israel in 1970. He has designed light for fifty dances for Bat-Dor and Batsheva dance companies.