Rising is not the fanciest or most virtuosic piece, it doesn’t have dazzling costumes, props or music. It doesn’t want to impress you, shake you, manipulate you. It isn’t trying to be something. It simply is. And what it is is so much.Read more
*english follows מספר מחשבות שעלו לי תוך כדי הצפייה במופע מולטי/ענת כ”ץ וארז מעין מעניין לדעת כמה מופעים שעלו כאן כותבים בברושור / פלאייר / דף ערב שלהם את צמד המילים “ניסוי בימתי”. וכמה מהם באמת מבצעים ניסוי כנה על עצמם וקהלם. במולטי, גם אם לא כתוב כך במפורש, היתה בהחלט תחושה של סיור במעבדה.Read more
Frank sexuality and bold gender politics also predominated in so much of the work, as if another form of resistance to social and political conservatism. Read more
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Collaboration between Dana Ruttenburg and Noa Mark-Ofer.
Dance it was not but it was life itself. Read more
שאלתי את עצמי, איפה הקונפליקט. איפה המנוע שיניע את היצירה כולה, ואותי כצופה. האם זה מספיק, לקחת את הרגש הזה, את האהבה הקיצונית הזו, לכאורה שחוקה אבל כל כך חזקה, אותנטית ואוניברסלית, ולשים אותה על במה.
I ask myself why must I watch this? So I decide to walk out–I see no point in a woman taking this. They are no longer dancers in a dance but a man willfully striking a woman. Read more
The A-Genre Festival took place at Tmuna Theater on December 15, 16, 17, 2016. Yoav Grinberg Danced in Ido Tadmor Dance Company, In ‘Tami’ Dance Company, artistic director Nimrod Freed, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, De De Dance Company and Sally Anne Friedland’s Dance Drama Company.Engaged in teaching dance and invited to teachRead more
Back at home, Barcelona-based Vicens Mayans gives a round-up of highlights from International Exposure. Read more
Pictures of Common Emotions by Yasmeen Godder: Pictures of After Show Spaces: ROBERTO CASAROTTO Since 2006, Roberto has been director of the dance projects for the Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa (CSC) and Operaestate Festival Veneto. Associate director of Aerowaves, he is aRead more
I could feel all of the thought Dadon put into that bag of popcorn and its torrid interaction with the silvery microwave. I could imagine him planning the coming action, the popcorn bag handed gently to the audience member seated closest to the stage and the slow journey it would make through the crowd, delighting each and every viewer with one, perfect, buttery kernel. What a wonderful addition that would make to the UX of the piece.Read more