Alive Show

50 min.

During these past couple of years, we are all at a physical and emotional state that we imagine to be similar- social distancing, existential fear and new experiences in the virtual sphere. This primal unification is leading me to address the animal that we are, our uniqueness as a species and the act of art creation within that. What is the nature of art, where does it exist and what is essential, important or fundamental within it. The decay of the freedom of speech and our ability for movement is setting in motion a biological extinction process of art.

In Alive Show, Art, Just as any unique and beautiful organism in nature is struggling to survive, migrating and changing like an endangered species, searching for a place to be.

Photos by David Kaplan

Premiered 15.10.2021, Diver Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel

Metal

45 min.

Four dancers create figure hybrids of the animalistic and the cultured. The piece takes inspiration from this current era of world plague that bends, isolates and encapsulates the body. The dancers cover themselves with sleeping bags, tents and other fabrics taken from the world of wilderness survival, thus invoking new creatures that exist in a domain somewhere between opera, growl and cough. 

Photos by Orel Ravivo

Premiered 5.1.2021, Residesert, Eilot Region Fringe Festival, Israel

Packed

30 min.

The essence or perhaps the nature of art is pinned in the belief that it’s not useful. Could it be that during a pandemic, the Israeli institution has neglected and abandoned art due to this very reason? In this piece, art and artists, like other species of nature, are joining the quest for survival. They enter the natural history museum with the pretext of the ‘endangered species’ desperation. It is not surprising that right at this moment, when we are presented with the opportunity to not suppress the body and its transience, this species materialises as a dance company. The species invades the natural history museum, a company crawls between the different packaging options of the medium: moves between the being of the arthropod, the being of the dancer, and the being of still objects. The art of the body is enthralled with the search for resources through the various spaces of the reservation, seeping into the vending machines and restroom faucets.


Made with the generous help of Diver Festival and The Israeli Choreographers Association

Photos by Anna Semenova

Premiered 22-26.12.2020, online screening, Diver Festival, Israel

Soulty

50 min.

In Soulty the face is a mask, the voice is sound and body movements are decorative shapes. The performers do not express their selves through the movement but separate their selves from it. They disconnect from facial expressions, movement and voice which usually act as mediators for inner feelings. The voice, the face and the shape of movement do not seek authenticity or manifestation of the individual but emerge out of the body as sculptural elements, costumes through which new figures are composed. Thus, they act as a medium that suddenly channels the voice of the soul, the one that is not confined to an individual but connected to the zeitgeist.

Photos by Yuval Cohen and Maayan Sophia Weisstub

Premiered 25.7.21, Beit Haber, Tel Aviv, Israel