In Ehad-Ha’amstreet no 42 , you will find a ‘simple’, small building designed in 1928 by the architect Ya’acov Ornstein. A building, of wich you will find hundreds of them in Tel Aviv; today with a black/brown facade and the concrete ‘rotten’. You will pass it by, without even notice it…. But this small building became the first dance studio in Tel Aviv, and Ya’acov Ornstein designed it for his wife Margalit Ornstein. The family emigrated, from Vienna, in 1920 to Palestine. The Ornstein-family was a pioneer of dance in Palestine. The ‘free’ (expressive) dance-revolution and the principles of the culture of the body, found fertile ground in this studio. Margalit Ornstein was the founder and theoretician of this new style of dancing. Later, she was the choreographer of the ‘Ornstein Sisters’, … Read entire article »