The worlds oscillate between the tangible and the abstract, as Ayala employs a variety of materials and textures. Naya’s persona shifts as well, both through the costumes and accessories she adopts in each world, and through her movement choices, which range from the one end of classical flamenco to the other end of contemporary dance.Read more
Noa is an exceptional performer, fully present in what she does. It’s impossible to tell whether what we’re seeing is choreographed, improvised, or both simultaneously. There is a strong sense of responsibility for the moment, for the present, for the body.Read more
For a self proclaimed selfish bastard, Hamilton is one of the most gracious and generous people I have ever seen on stage.Read more
‘Life in Lyrca’ is all very funny but also thought-provoking, raising questions about the power dynamic between the creator and the audience. How much power does he have to instruct us on how to watch, what to think, how to understand and interpret, and when to applaud?
The work ‘Paradise’ by Matan Cohen deals with the harsh truth of life in our country.Read more
Mochiach chose to dedicate her current work to research about the inner world of women, which has been disturbed throughout the war. Only two years back it would never have occurred to me that older women, some my mother’s age and others my grandmother’s age had she been alive, would have to dream that they’re in the Holocaust and must seek refuge, as one of the older performers shared that she’s been dreaming (in a theatrical setting that was perhaps way too literal, when a dream about hiding in a drawer who presented to us by a performer who hid in a huge drawer). I guess our reality is stranger than fiction.Read more
There’s something fairy tale-like about the Suzanne Dellal Center complex, even just arriving at the courtyard or the well next to Inbal Dance Theater feels like stepping into a princess’s palace. Being there, even for a moment, feels like a bubble separate from the city. And with all the support of 1|2|3, every princess immediately levels up to a queen.
So I went to take a peek at the next generation of dance royalty.Read more
I think of Boutrous’s wheat field as a particular site of memory, an object that is like the gun that appears in the first act to remind both the performer and ourselves of the place we come from.Read more
*צילום אופיר בן שמעון כבר קרוב לארבע שנים אני רוצה ומנסה לראות את ההופעה של סתיו ומירב, עוד מאז הבכורה שהוצגה בהרמת מסך אי שם בשנת 2021 כשהייתי אמא טרייה לתינוקת יונקת. רכשתי כרטיס מבעוד מועד, וברגע האחרון היורשת לא הצליחה לנתק ממני את חבל הטבור, ואני לא הצלחתי לצאת להופעה. לסתיו ומירב ישRead more
We won’t ever know the real effect of walking in and out of this war but in the film Puppet Party, Galina uses his many talents to convey the fractured pieces of himself unraveling and being unraveled. Read more
Waiting Places by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber is unarguably beautiful. Its beauty shines like a dew drop rolling from a rosebud, or the reflection of soft sunrise’s rays glimmering on the sea. Highly skilled and expressive dancers perform exquisite choreography, screened in black and white. The women’s long hair and dresses move along their athletic bodies, the men’s heels mark the fast tempo of the passing of time. The craftsmanship of everyone involved: the dancers, the choreographers, the camera and editing, and of course the music, is impressive and inspiring. I’m still left waiting, though, for something else. Something that perhaps was never intended to be part of this particular piece, yet without it the work feels incomplete. Read more