a dance piece  / Ori Lenkinski

In this solo, dancer Ori Lenkinski reflects on her experiences in life and on stage. Am I still a dancer? With 24 years of stage experience, now a wife and mother, always trying to be a good person, this central question occupies her at home, in the studio and on stage.

Ori uses text, video, props, movement, comedy, audience participation and more in her work. Her choreographic language conveys themes that directly interest, disturb and inspire her. But with such a range of styles, can her work be categorised as dance?

She was told that if you want to do something new, it should be more dance. This became both a stimulus and an inspiration. She began to wonder what a dance piece she had created might look like.

She found inspiration for her approach in the work of Trisha Brown and then began to work with improvised movement and text, developing a reflection on her life through dance. The result is a solo, a deconstructed puzzle assembled from the pieces that make her the dancer she is.

By and with: Ori Lenkinski

Sponsored and supported by Menashe Dance House, Between the Seas, Rabinovich Foundation, Se.S.Ta, Tel Aviv Municipality, Association of Israeli Choreographers, Machol Shalem Dance House

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perFORMing LOVE / Roni Chadash

“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”                                                             Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

Wandering in the blurred boundaries between love and admiration, longing and despair, between the mechanical and human, the unique and unoriginal, the clichéd and the real.

With: Shira Ben Uriel, Inbar Buchbinder, Romi Lahav, Ahinoam Chai, Tom Nissim, Yankalle Filtser, Tamir Golan, Matheus Moreira

Choreography: Roni Chadash

Sponsored and supported by MART Foundation, Rabinovich Foundation of the Arts, Lottery Council for Culture and Art, Kelim Choreography Center, Tel Aviv Municipality and Ironi Alef Dance Department.