DANCE


  • Raw & Uncut at The GarageWhen you first enter The Garage, you’re still infused with the street clamor and wet night air. The pre-show chit chat and beer bottle clatter chime the space. Last calls for the Nano bathroom at the end of the stage are announced. At 9pm sharp, Joe, the founder of The Garage, kicks off the evening show. Lights are switched off and quiet anticipation is turned on.
  • Alonzo King Lines Ballet |The Moroccan Project: Collaboration with El Hamideen’s live traditional Moroccan The dancers sweep through dense, thick air. Heart thump and drum beat merge at accelerating pace, speeding faster and faster. And faster yet, with subtle movements breaking down the chords into syllables of fragmented vocabulary.
  • Alonzo King Lines Ballet | World Premiere with Jazz composer and pianist Jason Moran “You want to tap into the gold vein where you are dealing with beautiful truths and profundities,” says King. “When people observe choreography, they miss so much if they’re being intellectual because intellect is not how you really understand depth,” he adds.
  • Barak Marshall at Suzanne Dellal Dance Center: Rooster After watching a bounty of dance performances back-to-back at the 2009 International Exposure Dance Festival/Suzanne Dellal Center, it was Rooster that hit home and made me go see the show a second time the following week.
  • KCDC (Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company) at Suzanne Dellal Center: Infrared A deep voice delivers the weight of “In the Black Garden” to the taps of a black platoon. They open the show and they’ll also close it, but not just yet. We’re still in for a journey, exploring the tumbles of our human condition, sinking deep into its weaknesses, aspiring to new heights through time and space.
  • Vertigo Dance Company at Suzanne Dellal Dance Center: Mana (Vessel of Light) Mana dances the tension between container and contained, exterior and interior, whole and hollow.
    And what is installed first, vessel or light?
    Does the Sun rise to fill in the absence of Moonlight, or rather is it the lack of Moonlight that creates the inspiration of its vessel, container of light?
    (Based on the Zohar)

  • International Exposure at Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater Tel AvivFor a youngling, taking refuge between the walls of the Suzanne Dellal studios, my console-for-the-sole feeding center, it feels good, more than good, to now pace across the stone square, 20 years later.
  • 4 Men, Alice, Bach and The Deer4 Men is a dramatized exploration of masculine interaction and action. It is a fairy tale of vile and virtue.
  • Alonzo King Lines | SCHEHERAZADE Alonzo teaches his dancers to follow their intuition; to be honest, generous and fearless. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to communicate clearly. The dancer lives in the realm of thought ideas before they become spoken words.”