The power of the work ‘4 Fantasies and a Monkey’ lies in its ability to allow and create an imagined space to wander through, even if only for a few moments. The audience is invited to walk through the forest clearing, and it does not fear crossing it, because it is faithfully guided by a multitude of images. Like Hughes’s eternal fox, ‘4 Fantasies and a Monkey’ turns the one-time moment into the eternal, and the human consciousnesses within it into a walkable, infinite space.Read more
Maybe the real question the piece is asking isn’t “If there were no war, what kind of dance would happen?” (as the program states), but rather: How can one keep dancing in the middle of a war? How can we dance not about the war, not for it, not in service of it, not in protest of it, but also not with our eyes closed to it? Is it possible to continue making good dance theater, while still being self aware of what’s happening around us? Should we? And what about creators who don’t want to engage directly with the war, what is their place right now, in this heartbroken moment of sand and stone?Read more
*צילום אסקף אברהם בערב תל אביבי גשום הצטופף קהל רב בתיאטרון תמונע. לא נותר כסא אחד פנוי. מחיאות הכפיים הסוערות, הצילומים האינטנסיביים וההתרגשות הגדולה בקרב היושבים לא השאירו מקום לספק: בני משפחה וחברים קרובים באו לראות את הבנות, האחיות והחברות שלהם עולות אחת אחת עלRead more
Suppressed feelings, stunted Intuition. This is the design: confusion and disorientation have their own violence to them. Every time Yossi began to FEEL something, moments of disbelief, confusion, something new, something strange, something real, his repetition of “Yo, yo, yo!” reinforced what was unfamiliar. He was simultaneously resisting and spell-casting with each “Yo”–a quiet opposition to Patriarchal Forces that had silenced, banished, and cursed the internal guidance systems responsible for questioning the absurdity of such force, manipulation, and control. The red fabric stuffed in the mouths of the 4 male dancers representative of this silencing by the Patriarchy.Read more