Batsheva Dance Company is named for its patron, the Baroness Bathsheba de Rothschild. Now Israel's leading dance company, it kicks off the Kennedy Center's five-week "Art of the State: Israel at 50" festival of music, dance, theater, film and -- to end with a bang -- fireworks and a son-et-lumiere show.
Batsheva's contribution will be a full-length dance-theater work called "Anaphase" by its artistic director, Ohad Naharin. The title refers to a part of the process of cell division; the movement considers the group as the cell, the dancers as its energies and components.
