The Israel Festival 2012: four weeks of performances by performers from Israel and abroad!
23.05.2012 - 14.06.2012
The Israel Festival is the largest and most important international arts and cultural festival in the land and has chosen Jerusalem as its eternal home (save for a few scattered events in other cities).
For more information about the festival and to order tickets visit the festival's official website.
Dance Performances:
Tangueros Del Sur
1.6.2012 | 16:00 | Rebecca Crown Auditorium
2.6.2012 | 21:30 | Rebecca Crown Auditorium
3.6.2012 | 21:00 | Rebecca Crown Auditorium
31.5.2012 | 21:00 | Rebecca Crown Auditorium
Director and Choreographer: Natalia Hills
Dancers: Natalia Hills, Hernan Lazart, Ivan Terrazas, Sara Gordan, Tomas Galván, Gimena Herrera, Neri Piliu, Yanina Quiñónez, Carlos Barrionuevo, Mayte Valdés
Musicians: Patricio Villarejo, Octavio Brunetti, Héctor Del Curo, Juan Pablo Jofre Romarión, Humberto Rodolffi, Héctor Pineda, Pablo Uccelli, Richard Niego
Tangueros Del Sur, the "tango dancers of the south," is considered to be the world's greatest tango ensemble. This dance company singles out and trains young tango dancers who share an uncompromising passion for this dance form, a symbol of Argentinean tradition and the basis of a highly aesthetic form of stage art.
The renowned tango dancer Natalia Hills starred in the Broadway hit show "Forever Tango."
Tango is a sensuously intimate combination of music and dance, and this group is known for the unique connection between the dancers and Argentina's best tango musicians. They create a remarkable dynamic between elegant movement and sensuous music, which transforms the tradition of tango into a moving modern performance. In this production, Natalia Hills returns to the world with sounds of percussion instruments, and to the earthy music and dance of the tango tradition.
Duration of Performance: one hour and fifty minutes, with intermission
Momix
Botanica
10.6.2012 | 21:00 | The Jerusalem Theatre, Sherover Hall
The MOMIX group was founded in 1980 by the choreographer Moses Pendleton, who currently serves as its artistic director. A decade earlier, Pendleton was also one of the founders of the dance-theater group Pilobolus. He is considered to be one of America's most innovative and esteemed choreographers of the past four decades.
MOMIX performs dance numbers that teeter on the line between theater and illusion. These works are based on remarkable visual elements, physical beauty, an interplay of light and shade, objects and props. This group's international success is phenomenal, and each of their visits to Israel has been a delightful visual experience.
"Botanica" is based on the relations between evolution, life, and the four seasons of the year. In this performance, the concept of nature is presented onstage through play, acrobatics, pantomime, dance, music, extravagant costumes, and a remarkable onstage dynamic. Together, these elements present the day-to-day and moment-to-moment transformation of life on earth.
The group's ten dancers transform the term "nature" into a world of theatrical imagery whose extraordinary power makes "Botanica" a fascinating multi-disciplinary experience.
Double duet/ Czech - Israel
Dot 504 & Roey Assaf
5.6.2012 | 20:30 | Rebecca Crown Auditorium
Part I: Dot504
Choreographers and Dancers: Lenka Vágnerová, Pavel Mašek
Artistic Director: Lenka Ottová
Company Manager: Šárka Pavelková
Lighting Design: Jan Ml?och
Sound: Jan St?eda
The dance-theater group Dot504 was established in 2006 by Lenka Ottová.
This performance depicts a future reality where human beings continue to living on planet Earth after the extinction of all animals. The two dancers express the relationship between the hunter and his prey, and between hunting and devouring. In this highly intense work, the dancers move carefully in relation to one another, while considering the possibility of hurting one another.
Despite the complex choreography and violent undertones, this performance is also characterized by delicacy and charm.
From the Reviews:
"...the richness and variety of the dancers' movement, together with the tension and intensity of the work, are breathtaking... this dance duo has clearly dived deep into the ocean of choreography to create an incredible style..."
(Mlada Fronta Dnes, Ninga Vangeli)
"Dot 504 expose the fragile line between sensual intimacy and erotic violence... Ravishing, disorientating, imaginative, captivating."
"On the Prowl, Gareth K. Vile"
The event is part of Days Prague
Part II: "Six Years Later"
Chorography: Roy Assaf
Dancers: Roy Assaf & Hadar Yunger Harel
Musical Editing: Reut Yehudai
Soundtrack: Roy Assaf
Following its success at the Israeli Curtain Up Festival, the Israel Festival presents this performance which has garnered much praise.
About the Performance
What was the nature of the event that took place six years prior to this performance?
The six years preceeding this moment may only be reconstructed through what the performers choose to share with us. This quiet encounter is filled with discomfort and hesitation concerning the acknowledgement of their previous acquaintance with one another. Perhaps they are desperate to prove that these six years have not gone by in vain.
We can know nothing about these characters other than the stories we invent about them.
As they exchange gestures, every intimation of movement may prove or disprove our assumptions.
This duet brings together an intimately related present and past that nourish one another, like the protagonists of an inevitable love story.
From the Reviews:
"The climax of this evening was this moving duet... Roy Assaf and Hadar Yunger Harel performed a dreamlike rendition of this complex encounter, which moves between fond remembrance and collision, a longing for the familiar and an acquaintance with the new, gentleness and intimations of violence. The round, warm, clean movements are performed at times in slow motion, and in other instances involve inaudible, intimate chatter. This movement that advances slowly towards the ultimate moment of union in which the two are transformed, following their long separation, into a single flower with two heads and four arms..."
(Zvi Goren, Habama website)
Duration of entire performance: two hours
Karas- Saburo Teshigawara
Mirror & Music
7.6.2012 | 21:00 | The Jerusalem Theatre, Sherover Hall
8.6.2012 | 14:00 | The Jerusalem Theatre, Sherover Hall
9.6.2012 | 21:30 | The Jerusalem Theatre, Sherover Hall
Choreography and Design: Saburo Teshigawara
Music Compilation: Saburo Teshigawara, Izumi Nakano
Dancers: Saburo Teshigawara, Rihoko Sato, Eri Wanikawa, Kafumi Takagi, Riichi Kami, Nana Yamamoto, Jeef, Mie Kawamura
Japan's greatest contemporary choreographer Saburo Teshigawara and his dance company will perform "Mirror & Music," which premiered in September 2009 at the New National Theater in Tokyo. This production features eight remarkably skilled dancers, as well as a mystical atmosphere, baroque music, stunning lighting, and a solo performance by Saburo himself.
The dancers explore the body and its relationship to mirrors and music. They reveal their physical abilities in a new reality filled with music and light. This performance examines the material and immaterial aspects of music, and our reflections as we gaze into a mirror.
The choreography, sets, costumes and lighting were all designed by Saburo.
Saburo began performing in 1981 in Tokyo, and has since performed at the most prestigious venues worldwide.
He has won international acclaim for his multiple talents both as a dancer and a visual artist. He is responsible for the visual aspects of every performance - including film, video art, sets, costumes, and props.
Duration of Performance: 80 minutes,without intermission
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