Bat-Dor was an Israeli dance company based in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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, Israel

Israel

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, co-founded by Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild and dancer Jeannette Ordman.

Company

Bat Dor made its debut in 1968 with Ordman as its leading dancer. The company existed until July 2006.

The company had a large repertoire of modern works. Among the international choreographers who worked with Bat Dor are Antony Tudor

Antony Tudor

Antony Tudor was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.-Biography:Tudor, born William Cook, discovered dance accidentally. He began dancing professionally with Marie Rambert in 1928, becoming general assistant for her Ballet Club the next year...

, van Dantzig, Lar Lubovitch

Lar Lubovitch

Lar Lubovitch is an American choreographer and founded his own dance company, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Based in New York City, he and the company have toured worldwide....

, Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance...

, Judith Jamison

Judith Jamison

Judith Anna Jamison is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater....

 and Israelis Domy Reiter-Soffer, Igal Perry and Ido Tadmor. Guest dancers included American Lawrence Leritz

Lawrence Leritz

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Dancers and students

• Sharon Aloni
• Igal Berdichevski
• Ravid Boger
• Yuval Cohen
• Danielle Frenkel
  Danielle Frenkel
  -Early life:Frenkel originally was interested in being a professional dancer, and trained for years as a teenager with the Bat Dor Dance Company. Two months after she began her army service, as a guide at Yad Vashem , Israeli high jump coach Anatoly Shafran, who had seen her jump in a high school...
  
  , Israeli high jump champion
• Maya Lewandowsky

• Yehuda Maor
• Natalia Paruz
  Natalia Paruz
  Natalia 'Saw Lady' Paruz is a New York City-based musical saw and novelty instruments player and busker. She is the founder and director of the annual Musical Saw Festival in New York City. She also organized the musical saw festival in Israel...
  
  
• Miriam Paskalski
• Keren Shumer
• Arnon Zlotnik

External links

• Israeli Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.