A Longstanding Friendship
“Robert Weil is one of a kind. Each year in our 25 years of acquaintance, reinforces how honored Batsheva Dance Company and I are for having a true and loyal friend who is always there for us, with his deep wisdom, love and generosity.” Ohad Naharin
Batsheva Dance Company and the Robert Weil Family Foundation have a long-standing significant partnership and friendship. The Robert Weil Family generously supports the Company, and particularly the well-being of the company’s dancers since 1995.
A bit of history: In 1992, Robert Weil and Ohad Naharin met while Ohad was in Sweden creating a piece for the eminent Cullberg Ballet. The connection between the two was immediate. When Weil asked Naharin in 1995 what his dream was, Naharin replied that he wanted Batsheva to be the best company in the world and for that he needed the best dancers in the world. And so it was. Ever since, the Weil Family Foundation regularly supports the salaries of Batsheva dancers, strengthening the company’s uncompromising artistic quality, and making it a destination point for excellent dancers from all over the globe. The Weil Family Foundation’s support thereby has a significant role in establishing the company as one of the foremost contemporary dance companies worldwide.
Batsheva is humbly proud to share the Foundation’s solid core values of humanity and civic responsibility. For Batsheva, the Robert Weil Family Foundation is a role model of exemplary and intelligent philanthropy that sees artistic practice as a potent catalyst for bridging divides within politics, identities, and religions.