Liat Dror Nir Ben-Gal Dance company

Two Room Apartment - the first work by Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal - won the first prize in the Shades in Dance (Gvanim Bemahol) Festival in Israel and then in banyole in France. That work opened doors in Israel and abroad for the dancing couple, who worked as a dyad until they started their own Dance company in Tel Aviv.

Their second work, Inta Omri - a dance based on the music of Egyptian superstar Umm Kulthum - opened their movement language to new dimensions.

Through it, they explored ways for human movement to open to everything that is good and pretty in this world, without ignoring its weak spots, difficulties and pain.

Dancing to Arabic tunes taught and guided their bodies to work differently. The piece opened a new space for Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal, in Israel and abroad.

This work was followed by Dance of Nothing, which strengthened and empowered the desire to balance out artistic expression with the need to create a harmonic reality, with healing, attentiveness, and understanding.

After the duo toured the world extensively, they felt it was time to make changes.

Dror and Ben-Gal started a family. At the same time, they were facing Israel's stressful, violent, and uncommunicative political reality, as well as the pressures that the world of dance imposed, physically collapsing under the efforts.

It was time for change. They made an extraordinary move and relocated to Mitzpe Ramon, a small and simple township in the heart of the Negev Desert.

There, they rented a deserted industrial hangar and slowly and gradually turned it into an enchanted palace of dance and harmony, surrounded by greenery. They named it Adama, that is - Earth or Land.

For a while, the two lost touch with the world at large and the world of dance.

In this peaceful place, Dror and Ben-Gal started searching for the source of human movement when it is not driven by a judgmental mind, not pushed to the physical limit, but allows the body to form as a real and stable home.

They addressed the connection between everyday life and dance qualities. Hangar Adama became home for numerous healing workshops, support groups, and of course - dance, with no contradiction between relaxation and expression, but rather a strong bond between the two.

Through that period, a professional dancing troupe was formed. Having practiced for 7 years, it now feels it is ready to reopen to what it has left behind.