AI: The Future of Dance?

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It is true that technology is engulfing our lives and, in many ways, for the better. Our day-to-day is made more efficient and more comfortable by digital advancements. However, the creation of dance is something that, in my opinion, needs no tech bolstering or interventions.Read more

Ana Harmon on Self Ritual by Iris Erez

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Choreographer Iris Erez made me pause at the Israeli Museum this month when she suggested that a room full of international visitors take selfies and place their phones on the ground, out of reach. Viewers peered down to find their reflections in a mosaic of black mirrors following Iris’ 30-minute-long solo, Self Ritual, presented by Machol Shalem Dance House’s Jerusalem International Dance Week, which hosts top curators and theater programmers from around the globe for five days of dance performances around the city.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Dance by Michal Meg

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As a performance artist whose works tend to associate with theater, I find that the performances that I love most are actually dance. I took a moment to wonder why and found three excellent reasons. Here they are:

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Three Perspectives on Ingiven by Noa Shavit

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Noa Shavit’s solo performance, Ingiven, shows a silently screaming mouth move above a sinewy body to Nick Cave’s stirring lyric, “The tree don’t care what the little bird sings.” If Shavit is that little bird, are we the tree? How many little birds fly around us that we fail to hear? There is a certain silence occupyingRead more

Three Pains by H.B.

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Pain of the Soul Ingiven – Noa Shavit Be in the pain Be the pain Explore the pain Let it out I know I did Thank You Noa   Pain of Live Tissue Work of Flesh: Soundtrack for Five Slammed Bodies – Annabelle Dvir Flash The moment the flesh hit the ground Hoo Aaaa ChiiiRead more

Dance in a Digital Age by Ana Harmon

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Google search “media influence on art” and you will primarily find articles on how Instagram has transformed the visual art market and how incredible it is that a smalltown girl in Idaho can virtually visit the Louvre. Few articles cover a question that I found hard to ignore over the past few days at Machol Shalem’s International Dance Week in Jerusalem: how does mass media and new technology influence our own creation processes and conceptions, specifically dance-making?

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Lee Nahat Shalom on Work of Flesh by Annabelle Dvir- לי נחת שלום על עבודת בשר מאת אנאבל דביר

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And here, from within a medium, drowsy egg

Peeks out a work that is a true pearl. 

The song of human meat, pounded into the floor

And from the pain and the impact

Emerges a beautiful, delightful poem. 

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Alex Oudi on HHH by Thibaut Eiferman – מאת טיבו איפרמן HHH אלכס עודי על

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Hand Head Heart

If you break one

The continuation and movement become important

Careful, I’m about to explode.Read more

Lee Nahat Shalom on the International Choreography Competition – לי נחת שלום על תחרות הכוריאוגרפיה הבינלאומית

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Warning: in the text before you I will mention nudity.

Partial nudity. Maybe just hinted?

Frontal nudity,

By no means anality!

Short nudity but oh so dangerous

Female nudity will be on the premises.Read more