This is a very different story than the ones we know, but perhaps it’s the only one that dares to get close to the truth. A story that places primordial emotion center stage, and the yearning to draw near to it, where even failure becomes a kind of success. I leave the performance moved by a work of art that continues, with devotion and faith, to try to return to the beginning of things. Read more
A gold piece of aluminum-plastic like material meanders playfully into the performance space. The kids in the audience, including my munchkins, are fully engaged with this mysterious entity as it makes its magical entrance. Hidden within the globule of gold are the wonderful dancers Noa Chen and Dikla Rejevsky. Noa emerges first with wondrous elasticity and fluid movements.Read more
Maya Brinner’s beautiful piece, ‘Home Work,’ embodies every sense of this learning curve while weaving motherhood into the tapestry seamlessly. We learn to dance by dancing. We learn to mother by mothering. We’re all in this delicious state of learning.Read more
If nothing else, Fusion proved that Gorfung’s prognosis is the last in a long list of things that make him special.Read more
The word I take with me from Crescendo Gold, Annabelle Dvir’s work that I saw at Habait Theater, is: power. If I had to summarize the performance in one sentence, I’d describe it as a ritual of a tribe of warrior women, wolves, demons, witches.Read more
This is a dance performance for children that is exactly what it should be: simple, beautiful, and intelligent. It is a show that treats children as the intelligent beings they are, and does not compromise on high standards of movement and material.Read more
It’s hot and humid, stifling in every sense, and it feels that especially now Yasmeen Godder and Dikla’s audacious creation brings us back to that primal connection of dance, singing and playing music..Read more
Rami Be’er created, from within what is happening to him and to us, a beautiful piece of art that dances this very hardship, so much so that it was hard to enjoy.Read more
*צילום אהוד מלמד האור נדלק על רקדנית אחת, היא משחקת במשהו שאינו. היא מרימה אותו, מוסרת אותו ותופסת, מרימה אותו גבוה יותר. אתה חושב שזו קופסה, או אולי כדור, אבל הוא משתנה בין ידיה ואינו אף אחד מהם. מסביבה אגם עשוי שמיכות כחולות רכות, פסנתר שעומד יתום מאחוריה. אתה מנסה לזהות, אבל הוא משתנה ממוצקRead more
Tali Zavilevich’s ‘Mindset’ parses out for the audience a vast swath, allowing us a peek into the hidden stories inside each step. The overall experience of this show was of a fascinating evening full of sensations, which accompanied me on my walk home.Read more