Adama is a cultural center, built in a fashion that
allows each one that walks through its gates to take
off his shoes, dance, take part and grow.
In the ‘Spice Route Quarter’ of Mitzpe-Ramon, a
massive industrial hanger was alternated into a large
culture hall. Primarily it’s a dance and movement
center and the home base of the Liat Dror and Nir Ben
Gal dance company.
However, the concept that initiated it is much wider.
It is a dance school that operates like no other school.
It has a full studying program (three days a week), yet
beyond the dance studies, the students receive artistic
and general tools that would allow them to face the
world ready and whole both as dancers and people.
The school also enables the local residents, as well
as neighboring communities and passing tourists to
enjoy a variety of lessons and activities, from yoga and
relaxation lessons to free style dance parties.
The center imports and exports a diversity of cultural
activities in and out of Mitzpe-Ramon; dance courses
students from high schools around the country come
here for two days workshops, teachers and artists
from the center of Israel come to teach and perform
within the school, and the dance company performs
throughout Israel, being an ambassador of the center,
Mitzpe-Ramon and the Negev.
The artistic spring of the center is dance and
movement; however, other arts such as music and
video art, film, theatre and art performance are
represented. Therefore a multi artwork process as
well as the interrelations between the arts, becomes a
fascinating part of the studies in the center.
In order to enrich the students, the residents of the
area and guests from the center of Israel, the center
produces art festivals during the three Regalim (three
jewish high holydays) in which we always intertwine
dance shows performed by the company and students,
along with guest artists.
To facilitate these activities that may require a long
stay, the hangar is prepared for accommodation in the
same spirit and guides of the cultural activity.
The kitchen is vegetarian and partially organic, based
on the finest production of our home.
Sleeping is possible in a camping yard facing the
desert, or in small sleeping spaces. Whoever wants
to retreat in to the silence of the desert can be
accommodated also when there are no cultural
activities.
Besides the engagement in culture and art, the center
is involved in the preservation and developing of our
natural environment. Environmental Principles such
as recycling, preservation of resources and energy,
and cultivation of organic vegetable garden and
chicken-coup, are integrated in the activities of the
center and learned here. The lovely garden, slowly
becoming an oasis, proclaims so.
