The entire performance feels like an ongoing investigation, almost childlike in its curiosity.Read more
Bellahsen presented a female body that refused easy access: it concealed itself beneath shrouds, hid behind dark sunglasses, disappeared beneath grey bodysuits and repeatedly obscured itself with black and white liquids. This was a body that chose to make itself visible while resisting complete legibility. Read more
*English follows *Photos by Asya Skorik שישי בצהריים, שעה 14:00. נכנסים לאולם של תיאטרון ענבל. האולם מלא עד אפס מקום. על הבמה פרוש קרטון גדול, שהופך בהדרגה למצע המרכזי של העבודה. בהתחלה הוא נראה כמו אדמה יציבה, אבל ככל שהמופע מתקדם הוא מתחיל לזוז, להיקרע, להשתנות ולהפוך למרחב חי שנרשמים עליו סימני הגוף. יש תנועהRead more
It holds a genuine surprise, one that is powerful, celebratory, and left me exhilarated for hours afterward.Read more
PATROL creates a fantastical world, superhuman, deeply physical, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful.Read more
The work opens questions about the relationship between movement and education, education and ideology.Read more
At a rhythm that feels both surprising and perfectly measured, poems appear among the colorful canvases hanging on the gallery walls. Their monochrome presence immediately stands apart. These small and intricate signs interrupt the familiar landscape of a painting exhibition and quietly ask the viewer to look differently.Read more
The pace of the work is relentless, transitioning from one rhythm to another, one pattern to the next, one dancer leading switched out for another. The dancers show no signs of listening for cues. Instead, they appear telepathically connected, pivoting and exchanging material with uncanny precision. Improvisational impulses are woven into a tightly organized, ever-shifting and unpredictable structure.Read more
In this work, Dar demonstrates that good dance may turn its head backward, like Orpheus, but above all it surrenders itself to the present in every lifting of a dancer’s leg and every tossing of her head. It recognizes that “the pure present is the invisible progress of the past gnawing into the future. The truth is that every sensation is already memory,” as philosopher Henri Bergson wrote.Read more
Both works powerfully express the emotions we’ve all been carrying through this past month and more: anxiety, terror, helplessness, the attempt to survive inside all this darkness.Read more