The Pulse: An Event Marking 30 Years of the Kolben Dance Company

Kolben Dance marks 30 years of creation in a special event at Beit Ariela, under the title The Pulse – this is not a retrospective event, but an encounter with a living creation that pulses, changes, and operates even now. The event will take place on June 14th and will include a special gathering, an art installation, a video screening of company materials, and a conversation with creators and cultural figures.

The choice of Beit Ariela is not coincidental. Recently, a process of collecting rare past materials of the company was completed, and they are now preserved there. From this meeting point between memory and the present, it is clear: the creation does not stop; it expands, changes, and seeks to move forward.

The name The Pulse refers to the ongoing heartbeat of the company, a creative presence that does not stop even when reality changes. The atmosphere throughout the evening will be built through sound, space, and the pace of the gathering, in a way that seeks to echo the pulse not just as an idea, but as a physical and present experience. In a world where everything is editable, from the news to online identity, the question of what is real becomes sharper. Precisely there, in the body, something still refuses to align with the narrative.

For three decades, the Kolben Dance Company has operated within a changing Israeli reality, but the upcoming event does not seek to summarize the journey, but rather to touch its pulse through presence, memory, and conversation. Especially now, when everything seems temporary and fragile, the question arises of what allows a cultural body to continue beating. “Lies emerge from cracks in the body, sometimes without us noticing,” says Amir Kolben. “The body finds it very difficult to lie.”

The event is built as an experience that seeks to evoke a sense of continuous movement. Within the tension between what is preserved and how it changes over time, the direction of the company's new premiere in July is also hinted at—a work that will deal with lies: how they are constructed and how the body responds to them, even when trying to hide.

Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 18:00 – Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv

11 Bezalel St., Gerard Behar Center, Jerusalem

Phone: 052-3914930

Email: kolbenoffice@gmail.com

https://kolbendance.co.il/