Emotions
In Vitro
50 minutes
A piece for four dancers who inhabit a far away, frozen planet. The performers exhibit emotions that seem to have been taken from a comic book or a psychological thriller. They are materialistic and mechanical, as if toys forgotten by giant kids. They have no responsibility as to what is happening.
The body wears different qualities of movement as though they were articles of clothing, and the performers use them to lie to each other and manipulate the others. The body does not deny itself the existence of an identity beyond materiality but it uses this identity and its falseness to distort reality and take advantage of others while avoiding responsibility for their well-being.
The piece is about the hues of evil that colour our lives, as seen in television, plastic surgery or banal bureaucracy. It is not about the drama of evilness; there is no explicit violence or aggression, but it is about those daily decisions we make that are linked to numbness, clutter and the shallow capitalistic monstrosity of our current era.
It is possible to exist without noticing the exaggeration in which we live, but in this piece, we chose to replicate reality by illuminating the manner in which these daily evils are formed. Much in the same manner that bureaucracy exists in order to simplify and optimize certain actions, but in fact creates within us small quantities of difficulty and suffering. The dance is recruited to the mission of creating this replica of an exaggerated, mechanical world, and this new reality that is formed resembles a panic attack.
Reality is filled with representations of itself, but that doesn’t bring us any closer to an understanding of what it is. On the contrary, it keeps us at a distance from realising the source and it perpetuates all that is distorted within it.
︎︎︎ The Jerusalem Post Review
Premiered 14.11.15, Curtain Up Festival, Suzanne Dellal, Tel Aviv, Israel
performed by Ran Ben Dror, Ariel Cohen, Gili Navot and Bosmat Nossan. soundtrack design: Gal Oz. dramaturgy: Shir Hacham. light design: Omer Shizaf.
performed by Ran Ben Dror, Ariel Cohen, Gili Navot and Bosmat Nossan. soundtrack design: Gal Oz. dramaturgy: Shir Hacham. light design: Omer Shizaf.