Israel’s folk dance festival “Camp in Movement” opened yesterday evening in Eilat in cooperation with the Isrotel hotel chain. Camp in Movement takes place every year in collaboration with the Yisrotel hotel chain in Eilat and under the artistic direction of the dancer and choreographer Gadi Biton, one of the leaders of folk dance in Israel and the world. The festival is dedicated to Israeli culture in general and to folk dances and the Hebrew singer in particular. This year over 3,000 dancers and guests came to the festival.
Gadi Biton – Initiator Camp in the Movement: This is the 13th year of Camp in the Movement and on the occasion of his “Bar Mitzvah” celebration the camp will be around the theme of ‘small joys’. I am excited to make all the thousands of participants and lovers of dance happy and allow them to get out of the routine and come back and have a unique experience in the cultural landscape in Israel, especially after the period of the Corona epidemic.”
The festival is held for four days and nights of folk dances and a variety of different events: special dances divided into different routes: “beginners from the first step”, “intermediate”, “advanced”, “nostalgia”, “women only” (dedicated to the religious sector) and ” Rolling” – for dancing in wheelchairs.
In addition to the various dance activities, the participants of the festival enjoy performances by the best artists in Israel – Hanan Ben Ari, Eli Butner and the Foreign Children, Danny Sanderson, Haim Moshe, Gil Shohat and Daniela Logsi. The camp will include a variety of other activities: public singing events led by the leading Hebrew singers in Israel; pool parties; Arabic content; Prom and more surprises. Camp in Movement invites a large and diverse crowd from all over the country and the world, who have in common the love of folk dances.
The field of Israeli folk dances combines the preservation of Israeli folklore alongside the creation of new dances that develop alongside Israeli music as a whole, thus becoming a unique culture that has no equal in the world – a culture of human love, values and heritage. Based on this concept, the festival creates a special partnership with the National Center for Organ Transplantation of the Ministry of Health, to encourage the signing of an Edi card.
The dance venues were all branded with an Edi card using giant screens and billboards. Festival participants received a text message with a link to a direct digital signature on an Eddie card. Deborah Sherer from the National Transplant Center: “I am excited every time to meet those of the dancers who had the privilege of receiving organ donation and their lives were saved and they returned to the routine of life and continue to frequent the dance floor.”
The four days of Israeli dance are in full swing!