“Rina Schenfeld keeps the human figure always visible and she is, as ever, a serenely beautiful dancer of great intensity, the magnetic focus of attention. Each flutter or flicker of her fingers seems invested with meaning of some sort, never literal and all the more tantalizing because of its mystery. Moreover, Miss Schenfeld’s past as Israel’s leading exponet of Martha Graham’s technique and art in the Batsheva Dance Company is not completley shed here.
Her current work, after leaving Batsheva in 1977, seems an extreme reaction against the Graham esthetic. And yet her own designs in space are never completely abstract, and the expression of emotion through movement explains the unstated drama in these solos.”
excerpt from the New York Times, Friday, November 25, 1983
