Mad Siren
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Mad Siren
розуму сирени Mad Siren sirena pazzo ןרייס עגושמ sirene loucaChoreography: Idan CohenMusic: W.A MozartDancers: Noa Shiloh, Tamar Grosz, Mitar Basson,Juan Kores, Maya Pharan.Costume design: Tal MerRehearsal and stage manager: Melanie BersonVocal work: Offir DaganArtistic advisor: Ran Ben DrorLight design: Netta KorenTo the sound of W.A Mozart's Solo Piano Sonatas, the piece follows the transformation process of a group of performers where they devote themselves and transform from passive listeners of the famous 18th century melodies- to the very essence of music.By following the development of listening capabilities and our sensitivity to one another's language, an additional layer of social context is added . The piece raises questions about the nature of fear and lack of understanding towards what is different- What are the boundaries between the tangible body and the abstract music, where does the movement originate and where does it end.What is quiet? What is noise? And what lies between them and within a cultural and political climate.
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Brazil
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Brazil
Choreography: Idan CohenDancers: Anderson Braz, Daniel Gal, Talia Landa / Ya'ara Moses, Snir Nakar, Sharon VazanaMusical Arrangement: Tal Ben-AriWhat are the views drawn in our minds when we think about "Brazil"? Which desires do we connect to that sunlit region, and lies between them and the reality in which we live in?The piece speaks of the views we imagine and that hold our dreams and desires, and raises the question of what is our personal and social need for this exotic perception, what is this perception a refuge from, and what is the content and character of this refuge we quest?Rehearsal Manager: Melanie BersonArtistic Advisor: Ran Ben-DrorCostume and Stage Designer: Miki AvniLight Designer: Avi-Yona Bueno (Bambi)Duration: 30 min
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Swan Lake
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Swan Lake
Music: Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky Choreography- Idan CohenDancers: Reut Levi, Rita Komisarchik, Daniel Gal.The main idea and basic issue in Idan Cohen's "Swan Lake" is to bring to life the different questions of identity behind "Swan Lake", the monumental musical piece of Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky which is considered one of the foundation stone of the western culture, music and dance. The meaning of the piece is to shed the "classical" garments out of the story and the dance, and to try and reveal the personal and contemporary story which hides behind it.The dancers are checking persistently their identities, and by their personal stories and biographies each dancer set a sketch of behavioral rules and codes, and designs the space, the other dancers and the new story.The dynamics in the work is an infinite continues routine of tension and changes which leads to a mutual oppression of all individuals who are leaving inside that regime.In this defined area, which behaviors and values would each of the characters carry with them in their endless search of freedom and salvation? Those of a human, of a swan or the hybridization between a man and animal?Rehearsal and Stage manager: Melanie Berson.Artistic advisor: Ran Ben-DrorCostume designer: Anat ShterenshosStage design: Rotem TashachLight designer: Netta KorenProducer: Einav TalDuration: 80 min (including an intermission)World premier: 28/06/09, Silesian dance theater, Bytom-Poland.Supported by a Tanzplan Dresden residency. Tanzplan Dresden is funded by Tanzplan Deutschland, an initiative of the German federal cultural foundation.The "Pais" foundation- Culture and Arts Administration.The STATE OF ISRAEL Ministry of Science Culture & Sport, Culture and Arts Administration, Dance department.Suzanne Dellal dance center Tel-Aviv and the "Pais" home, Kiryat Sharet, Cholon."The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool "W. Shakespeare, "As you like it".
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3 pieced swan, op.1
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3 pieced swan, op.1
World premier: ICOM (In the company of men)June 09, DNA New-York.Choreographed and Performed by: Idan CohenThe solo is divided to three different short solos- running time of the piece: 10 min.Music: P.A Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake", performed by the Boston Symphony OrchestraCostume design: Tal MerRehearsal director: Melenie BersonBy checking personal and intimate body expression, somehow when crossing the invisible line of acceptable behavior we get to see exactly what expression is regarded to define that line."3 pieced swan, op.1" Wanders in and out of identity questions aroused by the monumental music and synopsis of "Swan Lake". issues of gender and Identity, my kibbutz and national background are the inspiration of the piece, and when I understand WHAT is unacceptable, I can leave the question of WHY it is unacceptable behind and become what might be seen as a hybridization of a man, and a creature called swan.
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Joy Ride
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Joy ride
A 30 min piece for four dancers, premiered in the 7.01.08 in Suzanne Dellal dance center, Tel-aviv, Israel. Dancers: Ido Batash/ Ran Ben-Dror, Reut Levi, Moshe Shechter Avshalom, Rita Komisarchik. Choreographer: Idan Cohen. Music: Zoviet france, Janis Joplin, The psychic paramount,John lennon.Costume design: Tal MerRehearsal manager: Melanie Berson.Lighting design: Martin Adin.A blurred, sweet bitter ride into the district in-between the desires of the body, pleasure and free love. Even in what might suppose to be our most intimate moments and aspects of human connections and life, the work finds and creates a closed circle that examines from a more geographic point of view sexual behavior, and deals with the question of how it transforms practices.The four dancers - 2 men and 2 women, perform a claim that instead or in addition to a private sexual identity there is also a sexualidentity of a small group."Joy ride" is a work dealing with tackling sexuality, not from the perspective and ownership of the individual, but rather it wishes to examine sexuality to like a closed circle of dynamics which one does not own but is subjected to and is subjecting others to.How does it transform socializing, moral attitudes and discourses concerning what is prohibited, what is aloud and the entirely different location of transgression.The realizing of prohibited forbidden desires, being able to put the personal into the real and being able to confront desires with reality takes a large part in the piece while examining how the most intimate, fearful behavior can flourish in to a strong, vibrant creation.
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My Sweet Little Fur
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My Sweet Little Fur
12 Minute solo for a male dancer, was created as a part of the "Shades in dance 07" festival, Suzanne dellal, T.A. and Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Holland.Choreography: idan cohenDancer: Ran Ben- DrorCostume design: Tal MerRehearsal manager: Melanie BersonLight design: Yaakov BaressiMusic: zga, the north sea and rameses, a fault in the nothingMarch 08 - first performing prize in "Solo Tanz Theater Festival" Stuttgart, Germany.My sweet little fur Video Dance by Ofek Wertman wins first prize in "KinoLewchyk" Experimental Video Festival, Kiev, Ukraine."My sweet little fur" is a solo presenting a dialogue between a man and the hounds residing in him. The piece arouses questions regarding personal identities and cultural behavior opposite animalistic ones, and provokes images of isolation and solitude that are both personal and social.The dancer's character crawls from a restless space, seeking comfort, emerging from its own skin in an inner cycle that does not leave room for any peace or rest.Like an immigrant inside its own self, a foreigner in its own body.
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A year in a fish life
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A year in a fish life
A piece for 3 "drowned dancers" Dancers: Rita Komesarchik, Reut Levi, Daniel Gal.Costume design: Tal MerMusic: F.Shopin, Paulin OliverosRehearsal Manager: Melanie Berson.Has won 2 price in No Ballet choreography competition in Ludwigshafen, Germany 2007. Since 2008 the work is also performed by "Donlon" dance company- Saarbrucken, Germany. Like three sisters, the pressure is building and peaking to a boiling point in which they are driven uncontrollably to feed and digest each others breaths. The work is dealing with the dynamics between these women-A dynamic that provides an ancient mythological social role, like the Classical mythology feminine role of the Graeae and Gorgons. The work is geared towards offering some clues and keys to understand and relate to the characters most inner worlds, challenging their physical and emotional states, to the codes and nuances that ultimately compose their motivation to feel, to move, to be. The search is to try and put the viewer under this unique strong kind of femininity, as influenced by this dynamics, as an individual member of this "society" that inhales these forces. There is no privacy, any intimacy or comfort, and the characteristics of the dynamics are those of asphyxiation, tensions and pressure that can be seen through the body language, the movement and composition in the work.Rather than movement per se, the work uses psychological and cultural landscapes and an intricately detailed and subtle atmosphere to form the backbone of the piece, translating it into corporal images that form a combination of analysis and compassion.
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Half cup sesame seeds
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Half cup sesame seeds
A work for 4 female dancersOriginal Music: Georgy Arnoudov. Duration: 25 minCollaboration with "Arabesque" Dance Company, Sofia, Bulgaria. In November 2007, half cup sesame seeds" wins first price and the encouraging Award for original interpretation of musical composition in the Margarita Arnaudova international modern dance competition, Sofia ,Bulgaria and participated in the International Dance Festival (2008), Genova, Italy.A woman baking breadFrom the different ingredients combined in the baked goods, from the precise science of baking to the chaotic science of life- The dancers in "Half cup sesame seeds" find themselves thrown into a chaotic world.By The metaphor of the different ingredients combined in the baked goods, "Half cup sesame seeds" tells the story of the subtle emotional movements inside the baker's soul...
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Fishbone in cup of tea
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Fishbone in cup of tea
Dancers: Rita Komesarchik , Reut Levi.Costume design: Tal MerMusic: Pan-SonicArtistic and Rehearsal Manager: Neomi PerlovCutting edges, sliding, throbbing, trying to pull themselves up off the ground towards and away from each other. Looking for warmth and comfort, unable to find peace and stand securely on one's two feet. First performed in "Shades of Dance" Festival 05, Suzzanne-Dellal Dance Centre, Tel-Aviv.
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Mad Siren
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Brazil
Swan Lake
3 pieced swan, op.1
Joy ride
My Sweet Little Fur
A year in a fish life
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