Dana Ruttenberg on Curtain 3: Stav Marin and Merav Dagan, and Nadar Rosano

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A visit. An attempt to trap the thoughts that ran through my mind as I watched or came up after- not necessarily about the works rather through them… Because dance has this Rorschachian power to touch already-exposed nerves.Read more

Ayala Frenkel on Curtain 2: Adi Boutrous and Andrea Constanzo Martini

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In both works I saw young choreographers who had found an experienced dancer/collaborator to share the creative process and journey with fully. That is a precious gift in my opinion.
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Yulia Frydin on Curtain 4: Sahar Damoni, Shira Eviatar and Asaf Aharonson

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Yulia Frydin’s poetic response to Curtain 4: Sahar Damoni’s Pirgi’in, Shira Eviatar’s Rising and Asaf Aharonson’s What’s to Come.Read more

Omer Uziel on Curtain Up: Curtain 1- Michal Samama and Tami Leibovits

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Samama, wilderness, lake, horror, death, memorial, stones on a grave, soldiers, uniforms, red, hammer, to hit, to strike, nail, chilling, hurtful, the pelvis, side to side, flipping, unclear…Read more

Omer Uziel on Curtain Up: Always is Here by Adi Boutrous

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Relation is political
To ignore is political
The symmetry is political
The unison is politicalRead more

Anat Katz on Curtain Up: Curtain 3- Come Closer by Merav Dagan and Stav Marin

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Fainting, edginess, heaviness of the abdomen, muscular contractions and shortness of breath- these are just a few of the symptoms associated with the disorder “Female Hysteria”, as it was known in the middle of the 19th century. Read more

Yulia Frydin on Curtain 1: Michal Samama and Tami Lebovits

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I enter the Suzanne Dellal Hall and experience a flashback
To the end of the year celebration of 8th grade, on the theme of “100 years of Zionism”
Somewhere, in the Dora community center, in Netanya City.Read more

CW @CurtainUp 2016

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After a thought-provoking collaboration with Project 48, CW will pair up with the Curtain Up Festival. Two members of the CW circle will attend each of the four “curtains” and will publish their response here. More to come soon!  Read more

Thoughts on Failure Courtesy of The Bauhaus

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If Bauhaus was a failure, what’s so great about success?Read more

Thoughts on You Look Like You by Yaniv Cohen

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Why do we always want the performance to go to the edge? Why do we ask a woman who has just informed us she is pregnant to jump off a plastic chair in order to reach the ceiling? Why is “explode” the first thing we ask of the clearly angry performer? Why does control always lead to some kind of humiliation or abuse?Read more