Moshe Efrati, dancer, choreographer, founder, and artistic director of the "Kol Demama Dance Company" and recipient of the 1996 Israel Prize for Dance, was born in Jerusalem in 1934 and died in Tel Aviv in 2020. Efrati collected and preserved his archival materials, covering 1952 to 2016, and kept them at his home, and at the Kol Demama studio. Archival materials document Efrati's career, beginning as a student of Hassia Levy-Agron in Jerusalem in the 1950s, at the Martha Graham school in New York in the early 1960s, through his activities as a dancer and choreographer with the Batsheva Dance Company from 1964 to 1971, and culminating with his founding of the "Kol Demama Dance Company" and serving as its artistic director between 1971 and 2001. The bulk of the archive materials concern Efrati's main enterprise, the "Kol Demama Dance Company, "where deaf and hearing dancers worked together. The archive contains: photographs, video and audio documentation from the troupe's rehearsals and international tours, posters from its many shows such as "Camina y-Torna," staged at an international dance festival in Turin, Italy in 1993, press clippings dealing with milestones in Efrati's career such as the opening of the Kol Demama House in Tel Aviv, as well as production documents, and administrative documents concerning the day-to-day management of the troupe. The archive also includes awards and certificates of appreciation awarded to Efrati and his troupe, including the Kinor David Award for the work "A Man Begins His Day" ("Adam Mathil Yomo") (1975), the Israeli Society for Rehabilitation award for integration of the disabled in an artistic framework (1975), the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Isaac Stern Award for Efrati's unique contribution to dance in Israel (1986) and the and the Israel Artists Union (IUPA - in Hebrew "EMI"), Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). The archive also contains an album of nomination paperwork for the Israel Prize, which Efrati's won. There are also materials documenting Efrati's early activities in Israel and abroad, such as performance photographs from the 1960s, including with the Gavri Levy troupe in New York, and Martha Graham's piece for the Batsheva Dance Company, "Embattled Garden." In 2018, the archive was deposited with The Israeli Dance Library and Archive at the Beit Ariela Public Library in Tel Aviv.
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