Three Perspectives on Ingiven by Noa Shavit
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 occupying the stage which somehow muffles her strength. In a downward dog position, Shavit’s head replaces her arms as an anchor; her feet act as a lone engine, pushing her entire body forward along the floor. I admire her strong spine, but am disturbed by her dragging lifeless arms.
Nick Cave chimes in, “We go down with the dew in the morning, And we breathe it in.”
And in her program notes, Shavit writes “A fine line between life and death.”
by Ana Harmon
Be in the pain
Be the pain
Explore the pain
Let it out
I know I did
Thank You Noa
by H.B.
* english follows
היא קוראת מבפנים
מגיבה לבחוץ
היא צועקת
מתוך הר געש
מתוך הציור של אדווארד מונק
והפעם זו צעקה של הגוף
מחאה של הילדה האבודה
הפנים נקרעות מעבר לגבול
לפעמים כה מפותל
לפעמים פעור לרווחה
מאת אלכס עודי
She calls from within
Responds to the outside
She shouts
From inside a volcano
From inside the painting by Edvard Munch
And this time it is a scream of the body
A protest of the lost girl
The face is torn beyond its limit
At times so twisted
At others wide open
By Alex Oudi
Noa Shavit presented Ingiven on December 3, 2018 at the Leo Model Hall as part of Machol Shalem Dance House’s Jerusalem International Dance Week.