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Interview Series: Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak

July 9, 2008 at 5:39 am · Filed under dance, audio interview, DEBORAH, israel, inbal pinto dance company, inbal pinto, avshalom pollak, israel festival

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Hydra, the newest work by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. Photo credit: Seto Hidemi.

A video clip from Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak’s Shaker.

The very first work I saw at the Suzanne Dellal Center was Shaker, by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. Despite my jet lag, I realized that Inbal and Avshalom’s visually stunning work was special - and when I later saw the Inbal Pinto Dance Company in Oyster (twice!) and Hydra, I knew that my initial assessment of these artists was correct. Want more proof of this couple’s exceptional talent and ability to win over audiences with their artistry? Several hundred performances after its premiere, Oyster still fills the house at Suzanne Dellal, and the Israel Festival had to add a third performance of Hydra this June because of the demand for tickets.

In between rehearsals for their new production and tours of their existing repertory, I caught up with Inbal and Avshalom to learn more about their work. You can learn more too if you tune in to our podcast!

Hear our conversation and see more pictures on Israel Seen.
(URL: http://israelseen.com/2008/07/08/deborah-friedes-with-inbal-pinto-and-avshalom-pollack-as-they-talk-about-their-pathways-to-dance/)

If you’re in the U.S. next fall, you may get to see the Inbal Pinto Dance Company! From October to November, they will be touring with Shaker to Portland, San Francisco, Davis, Newport News, Gainesville, Miami, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Purchase, and New York. Check the Inbal Pinto Dance Company’s website for details soon.

I’ll leave you with one more treat:

Excerpts from Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak’s What Good Would the Moon Be,

SF Ballet Podcast

March 20, 2007 at 4:21 pm · Filed under SLOAN, choreographers, podcast, san francisco, jean-pierre frohlich, audio interview, san francisco ballet, jerome robbins

Posted by Sloan

San Francisco Ballet has begun recording their “Meet the Artist” interviews (taking advantage of modern technology! yay!) and posting them as audio podcasts on their website.

The most recent audio podcast is an interview with Jean-Pierre Frohlich. A former NYCB dancer, he’s currently a resident Ballet Master with NYCB, responsible for setting a large percentage of the Jerome Robbins ballets in the company’s repertoire, and travels the world through the Jerome Robbins Trust and Foundation setting Robbins’ ballets on other dance companies. (He’s always been one of my favorite ballet masters at NYCB. He’s helped me so much throughout my career, in coaching, encouragement, and in giving me new opportunities, so it was fun to see him as one of their subjects for the podcast.)

Apparently he was recently at San Francisco Ballet to stage Fancy Free, and talks a lot about this ballet, as well as a few other Robbins works. Definitely take a few minutes to check it out.

Also, in the podcast previous to this one, is a discussion about the creation of Wayne MacGregor’s Eden/Eden, which Megan talked about it her last post.