It's been a very successful first year. Ben-Gal says he is still surprised by the magnitude of their success. That's a lot of people. Ben-Gal feels the dance company's success has been a result of their positive drawing power as well as mounting frustration with the country's general state of affairs and a sense of wanting to escape the harshness of everyday life in the Middle East. I think people are starting to discover there's a different reality too.
People come to the hangar and see there's another option available.
It's not like going to see a movie and escaping for a couple of hours. They want to see there's another way of living. The members of the troupe live holistically. There's this amazing energy out here on the edge of the Ramon Crater that impacts on our work. Things flow much more easily and there isn't the tension you get in the city.