Watsda

45 min.

A Duet For a Dancer and a Vocalist

The starting point for Watsda is the question: What are we observing when we are looking at Dance?

In the piece, we hear an ongoing and morphing recording of my daughter asking ‘What's that?’ This is the same question we discuss and deal with onstage; it is the same question that haunted me during my days, asking me to define everything, constantly. The same soundtrack inhabits and is constantly present inside of my relationships with creation; the audience is likely also dealing with this very same question in their quest for generating meaning. Throughout the piece, as the body wears and disrobes shapes, I ask to prolong the moments where the viewer understands something about the movement it is observing.

The origins of the piece come from a solo created in 2014 for a conference at the Weitzman Institute Of Science that dealt with the connection between scientific research processes and movement research processes.  

Photos by Ofir Ben Shimon

Premiered 1.11.18, Diver Festival, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel