{"id":6,"date":"2015-04-13T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/play4dance.com\/en\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:14:11","slug":"ilanit-tadmor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/play4dance.com\/en\/ilanit-tadmor\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ilanit Tadmor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ilanit-tadmor-profile\"Hello, I\u2019m Ilanit Tadmor,
\nI\u2019m a teacher, dancer, artist, mother, partner, daughter,
\nMember of several organizations,
\nVegeterian, Vegan.
\nI\u2019m 42 years old.
\nI\u2019ve lived through 16 apartments, and almost the same number of life-partners, coming from 6 different states.
\nI\u2019ve been married and divorced twice, but I still believe that it\u2019s possible for two people to live happily together.
\nI live in Ramat-Gan, I still don\u2019t have a cat or a dog, although I\u2019ve always wanted one.
\nI really love dancing.
\nI\u2019m love with freedom and with the feeling of open and creative space.
\nChanges challenge me, not to say frighten me.
\nAnd yet my life is always changing,
\nExcept perhaps that I\u2019ve been dancing, performing and teaching for the past 22 years.
\nI am a student and explorer of improvisation and contact dancing as an artistic and developmental tool.
\nIt\u2019s a technique that creates movement, from a place of limitation to one of expanding possibilities,
\nEach person with himself, but in communication too \u2013 with a partner, with a group, with the environment.
\nTogether with my students I explore the question of how our work inside the studio seeps through into our daily lives,
\nOf how this work makes us more attentive, more patient, more curious and more creative individuals, how it makes us willing to wake up and change ourselves into what the moment offers us.
\nI remember one day I noticed that only when I walk through the studio door do I feel myself breath.
\nThe gap between the life-filled experience inside the studio, countered with the feelings of disappointment and frustration outside the studio, is something that has accompanied me throughout my life.
\nThis gap that makes you feel lonely and that if we could only live in the \u2018real world\u2019 as we do in the studio, it would have been easier \u2013 for all of us\u2026
\nAnd probably, that\u2019s where I\u2019m writing from now.<\/p>\n

And now a bit more formal\u2026<\/strong>
\nBeen teaching Improvisation and Contact-dancing for over 20 years, around the globe (Spain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Russia, Switzerland and Taiwan), in festivals, workshops and dance and movement schools.
\nGraduate of the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem, and of the Hebrew University in Theatre and Musicology.
\nI\u2019ve studied with many well-known teachers – Julian Hamilton (Spain), Carol Swan (USA), Ray Chang (USA), Steve Bats (Ireland), Deitar Heitkampf (Germany), Scott Wales (USA), Nita Little (USA), Nancy Stark Smith (USA), and numerous others.
\nIn 2000 I won the young choreographer\u2019s award in the \u201cShades of Dance\u201d (\u201cGvanim Bemahol\u201d) competition, and in 2001 I again won an excelling artist award, with a scholarship to Taiwan, where I taught, performed, and create two dance-pieces for \u201cTaipei Dance Circle\u201d.
\nIn 2003 I started a dance company founded on improvisation technique as a performance art, where I created and performed in a number of shows, such as \u201cPlay Station\u201d, \u201cDerby\u201d, \u201cAs Simple as That\u201d, and others.
\nIn 2005 I founded Studio Play \u2013 a school for the study of Improvisation, Contact, and the art of performance.
\nIn \u201cPlay\u201d we drive processes through the body, through movement and improvisation. It is this studio that has made real my vision, to connect people, to create a community of dancing people founded on the principles of Improvisation and Contact.
\nMember and co-founder of the Choreographers Association and the Contact Association.<\/p>\n

About PLAY Studio<\/strong>
\nPLAY Studio was founded in 2005 by Ilanit Tadmor. It specializes in Improvisation, Contact and performance arts. Its main goal is to provide the students with a platform for development and transformation through body work, movement and improvisation.
\n\u201cGrowth through motion\u201d \u2013 this saying stands at the foundation of studio work, which combines contact and improvisation as tools for exploration, growth and development. Driving deep processes of change, Ilanit\u2019s unique teaching method is threefold: students work with themselves, with a partner, and with the environment.
\nMost of our students have little background in dance or movement, and in the studio they receive a wide array of skills and tools from dance training programs, which empowers them and strengthens their ability to deal with life-challenges.
\nImprovisation offers tools that can enable anyone to self-observe, to understand his or her limitations. From knowing one\u2019s limits, tools can be given for expanding and breaking through them, from the known and into the unknown, from habits to an expansion of possibilities.
\nThe studio work is done on several levels simultaneously: Physical \u2013 fine-tuning the body by studying principles of movement from the world of dance; Mental \u2013 connecting the head and heart, reducing inner \u2018noise\u2019 such as criticism, and finding the middle-ground; Interpersonal communication \u2013 Opening new channels of expression for myself and with my partners.
\nThe school combines a four-year improv-contact program with yearly courses, teacher\u2019s training program, workshops, jams, individually-tailored programs and more.<\/p>\n

A community of dancing-people<\/strong>
\nIn the studio, we often talk about the desire to connect people, to create a community of dancers. To live and behave in the same manner we learn to move and communicate in the studio, on the path of contact and improvisation \u2013 methods that change the way we listen to ourselves, our partner, and the environment. It\u2019s a dance that flows out of two separate entities, working both together and by themselves. Improvisation, as it is learned in PLAY, offers a different sort of communication, a communication based on looking inward, through body and motion. It can open new possibilities for anyone, in any stage of their lives.
\nDance, according to Ilanit, creates healing in both body and mind, simultaneously. The expressive capability of our body is attuned and attached to both our physical and mental blockages. Once one of these is removed, change happens \u2013 in the way we move, in the way we dance separately or together. It\u2019s a dance that brings true joy and release. Natural, human, spontaneous movement into ourselves and onto others. It\u2019s a process that enables creative and communicative growth through movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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