Daniel Hope, music director and concertmaster of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, is fascinated by how rhythm and movement transcend time and geography. “Dance runs deep throughout the human story” he says. “It’s one of our oldest forms of expression—older than written language, and perhaps even older than music itself.
Based in Tel Aviv, the dance company was founded in 1964 by the Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, with American choreography pioneer Martha Graham as its artistic consultant.