Opus for Shoulders (2001), 6 minutes

 Choreography: Ruth Eshel

 Original score: Deganit Elyakim

 Singers:  Avi Gola, Dege Hanoch, Tsagay Abai, Kedma Aychek

 First cast: Chole Amen, Gola Avi, Bayenne Gevet Gilat, Hanoch  Dege, Abay,Tsegay, Biadgo Geva, Gobezu Matanel, Zegahon Hani.

 

 About the composer: Deganit is a graduate of the Department of Music
 at the University of Haifa. She won an America-Israel Cultural Fund grant in
 composition for 2001-2003.   

An abstract group dance creating variations of shoulder movements. The vocal
 music makes use of Amharic vowels.

 


 

Opus for Shoulders by Ruth Eshel, photo: Ofer Zvulun



Tezi Teza by Ruth Eshel, photo: Ofer Zvulun

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Beta Dance Troupe – Eskesta shoulder dancing of Ethiopian Jewry
 
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