I met Ronny Kalev while she was teaching an advanced aerial class at the Israeli Acrobatic Convention. I knew immediately after the class that I wanted to pick her brain about circus. Her teaching wasn’t about new, impressive tricks; rather, she wanted to make the students think of the body as a tool for expression. […]
CONTINUE READINGPig Iron Theatre Company was founded in 1995 by a group of artists with an interest in dance, clown and theatre. These three vocabularies and territories of performance have guided the company for the last 19 years, and have led it into many different realms of stagework. Each project is a dare to do something […]
CONTINUE READINGEvery year in late May or early June, Jews around the world celebrate Shavuot, commemorating when the Israelites received the ten commandments at the foot of Mount Sinai in the middle of the desert. For the past four years, a crowd of 500 acro enthusiasts have also chosen to spend their Shavuot in the desert […]
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