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Brian Schaefer is an arts journalist from Los Angeles, California.  He holds degrees in Dance and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He is a recipient of the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Dance Criticism and is a member of the Dance Critics Association.  He currently lives in Tel Aviv as a 2010-2011 Dorot Fellow, exploring and writing about dance in Israeli society.

Brian Schaefer is an arts journalist from Los Angeles, California.  He holds degrees in Dance and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He is a recipient of the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Dance Criticism and is a member of the Dance Critics Association.  He currently lives in Tel Aviv as a 2010-2011 Dorot Fellow, exploring and writing about dance in Israeli society.

Six videos created by Israeli artists were among the 125 chosen as finalists in the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube Play contest.

Israel has the third most finalists in the contest, behind only the United States and England. The 125 finalists were culled from more than 23,000 entries from 91 countries.

A panel of judges will select 20 videos to be displayed in a gallery at the Guggenheim Museum in New York from October 22-24. The 20 winning videos will be announced October 21 at an event at the Guggenheim.

[Originally appeared in Haaretz.com]

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