Background
Baruch Kaushansky (later Agadati) was born to a Jewish family in Bessarabia, and grew up in Odessa.
choreographer dancer director painter
Baruch Kaushansky (later Agadati) was born to a Jewish family in Bessarabia, and grew up in Odessa.
1910 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, with Boris Schatz
1914-1919 Dance and painting, Odessa
1930 Painting, Florence.
He is considered a legendary figure in Israeli culture. He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1900s. In Palestine, he was known for performing Jewish folk dances in an expressionist style.
In 1919, he returned to Palestine.
In 1920, he moved to the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Until his death is 1976, he worked in theatre, painted, danced and choreographed Israeli folkdance, produced the famous Purim "Ad DeLo Yada" Carnival balls.
He is buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. Kaushansky returned to Russia during the First World War and took the name Agadati.
After Agadati"s return to Palestine in 1919, he began to give solo dance recitals and became one of the pioneers of cinema in Israel.
Agadati purchased cinematographer Yaakov Ben Dov"s film archives in 1934, when Ben Dov retired from filmmaking. He directed the early Zionist film entitled This is the Land (1935), the first Hebrew speaking film, and a new version in 1963, called "Tomorrow"s Yesterday.". In the 1920s and 1930s, he was known for organizing Adloyada Tel Aviv Purim balls.
Agadati"s costume for "Yihie" ("Yemenite Ecstasy"), a solo show that also toured Europe and South America, was designed by Natalia Goncharova of Ballets Russes.
In 1924, Agadati choreographed a dance based on the Romanian Hora that became known as "Hora Agadati". lieutenant was performed by the Ohel Workers" Theatre, which toured pioneer settlements in the Jezreel Valley.
The dancers form a circle, holding hands and move counterclockwise following a six-beat step in a walk-walk-step-kick-step-kick pattern. 1910 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, with Boris Schatz Odessa, classical ballet, painting and music