The Sheketak Group was created by duo Danny Rahum and Tzahi Patish in 1997. The Group's productions combine

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of Concert dance, dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly stron ...

, lively

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

, and

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ...

. The group put on their shows in

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

and in around 30 other countries worldwide. The origin of the group's name is the blending of two words in

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

: Sheket (silence), and Tak (the creation of sound). The word "sheketak" is widely used by the group's artists in order to express rhythmic and musical phrases during a work process. Sheketak won the "Young Creators" prize of the Ministry of Culture and Education of 2001. Sheketak partook in various television and theatrical productions, such as "King Solomon and Shlomi the Shoemaker" in Habima Theater, and TV shows such as

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Nolad Lirkod ''Nolad Lirkod'' (Hebrew:נולד לרקוד) or ''Born to Dance'' was an Israeli televised dance competition with a format based on the American show ''So You Think You Can Dance''. Airing on Israel's Channel 2 and hosted by Zvika Hadar, the sho ...

, and

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and

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's talk shows. The managers of Sheketak created several soundtracks and choreography for many televisional productions and commercials.

Selected works

*Elements *Beats in Movement *From Street Kids to Street Performers *The Nutcracker

References

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External links

Sheketak's Website
Contemporary dance Dance in Israel Culture of Israel Words and phrases in Modern Hebrew