That is the genius of this show.
The audience enters as they would a regular karaoke night with a menu comprised of songs. The dancers pass through the audience pouring shots for everyone.
It is a show that is life and life as a show and, of course, the songs amplify our feelings in rhyme and rhythm, an unavoidable soundtrack of our memories.Read more
The piece forms a universe of enigmatic and strikingly ironic present absences — a world where what’s missing is not a gap to be filled but a space to be inhabited. Objects appear only to disappear. Narration floats free of the body, bodies are displaced and lost in translation, stories are searched for in books where they never existed. Time folds in on itself, and identity splinters between speaker and mover, memory and flesh.Read more
We go back to the Beginning. Back to peeling potatoes. Back to actions we thought we had evolved beyond. An invitation to step into more presence. A modern day Sisyphyean task that never ends. In her potent work, Sally Anne Friedland (along with Gucci Kohan) fearlessly explores our hunger for connection, our longing for meaning and purpose amidst the backdrop of war, conflict, and strife. The tension excavated in “A-Peeling” is viscerally uncomfortable and involves facing hard truths of the circumstances we find ourselves in: We are Sisyphus. Pushing the rock up the hill ad infinitum. But the rock has been replaced by potatoes–an endless supply to be peeled. Read more
True knowledge (whether it’s important historical knowledge or an esoteric fact; collective urban information or a private experience of the city) is experienced and understood in the most profound and direct way when it is embodied. This is the highlight of Lana and Direktor’s work.Read more
Ori Lenkinski’s ‘A Dance Piece’ is nothing short of masterful. Revealing and revelatory in its’ autobiographical authenticity, vulnerability, and candidness, Ori charms and enthralls the intimate audience in the Menashe Dance House studio (the original sanctuary she began the journey of creating the piece) from the moment she walks in and begins an interaction reminiscent of the dynamic between friends.Read more
צילום יאיר מיוחס בשנת 2016 ראיתי לראשונה מופע של מיכל סממה. היא הופיעה בהרמת מסך על אותה במה, כמו היום, וכבר אז ראיתי בה ייצורה אחרת ושונה בנוף המחול הישראלי. (כתבתי רשמים על “מסך 1” ב-creative writing). בעבודה “האנדרטה לתרנגולת” נזרעו הזרעים הראשוניים של מה שאנחנו רואים היום אצל מיכל, שכבר מקרקרת בקול גדול ונחושRead more
Blue Zone” explores the tension between things “as they are” and “as they are expected to be” as well, but with less anger. Their strength lies in their number and the deep partnership among them.Read 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
צילום אייל לנדסמן “אם מוכת יגון עומדת, מול הצלב בוכה, רועדת, שם תלוי ישוע בנה. את לבה המתיפח להב הכאב פולח, מה נורא הוא יגונה. מה נוגה היא, מה סובלת הקדושה, האם לילד האחד ואין אחר, הכואבת, הדואבת, הרועדת למראהו של הבן המתיסר.” תרגום של עדו אברביה למילות המזמור הקתולי מהמאה ה13, סטאבט מאטר. Read more
Though I could not have imagined it when we embarked upon the project, performing for children at this time in this country is one of the great privileges of my life. And looking around the studio in Sha’ar Hanegev, I was grateful for that hour away from the world, and for the opportunity to dance for a handful of hopeful small faces.Read more