Vertigo 20 | Vertigo Dance Company

Shortly after her graduation from the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Noa Wertheim was accepted into the Jerusalem Tamar Dance Company. It was there she met Adi Sha'al whose professional dance experience included both the Bat-Sheva Ensemble and the Kibbutz Dance Workshop. Partners in life and dance, Wertheim and Sha'al founded the Vertigo Dance Company in 1992.

Wertheim and Sha'al's first professional collaboration, a short duet called Vertigo, led to the establishment of their company of the same name. The inspiration came from the first-hand experience Adi had with the sensation of vertigo during his years in training with the air force. Vertigo - the performance - was built upon the concept of spinning out of control, not just in the air, but in relationships as well. Sha'al remarks, "Noa and I created a piece which looks at the loss of direction - the dizziness - in the human duet."