ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the personal journey of the author and her professional collaborator, the Israeli-Palestinian choreographer Rabeah Morkus, in their development of social-educational dance projects, which bring together Jewish and Arab participants, adult and youth, in movement and dance. Their relationship began in 2010 at the Speaking Art project in Jerusalem and deepened in the contact improvisation workshop series Meeting Point: Two Languages – One Movement, as well as in the Jewish-Arab collaboration Touching Hands, which took place in Yasif Village out in the open. Today, they lead the Bridges troupe – Israeli Jewish and Arab youth, dancing together in various styles of movement and modern dance and traveling to perform abroad. This chapter discloses the challenges and difficulties inherent in such collaborations, alongside hope for change and renewal, which is felt especially in the meetings of the young generation - both Jews and Arab.
