15.9.2020 #Collaboration #repertoireGIRLANDA
Tel Aviv
GIRLANDA One evening. Six creators. Different worlds collide.Creations by Talia Beck, Noa Eshkol (restaged by Mor Bashan), Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof, Nava Frankel and Nadav Zelner. World premiere performed by Batsheva – The Young Ensemble.Lighting Design: Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)Costume Design: Anna MirkinIn her first season as Artistic Director, and for the first time in Batsheva history, Gili Navot invites a rich array of creators to develop a one-time work with the Young Ensemble dancers. The various creations will blend into one evening, where each piece stands on its own, but influences the performance as a whole.The Works: Contentby Noa Zuk and Ohad FishofDancers: César Brodermann, Sean Howe, Nicolas Ventura, Shaked Werner, Ofir Yannai, Reches Itzhaki, Béatrice Larrivée, Tom Nissim, Londiwe Khoza, Alma Karvat Shemesh, Avigail Shafrir, Ido ToledanoAcknowledgments: Iris Fishof, Yoki Zuk, Kima Zuk Fishof VIP by Nadav ZelnerFriends. Who are these people whom we trust to keep our most hidden secrets and always be there for us? In which relationships doSee More
7.10.2017 - 5.11.2017 #WallCarpetsDreams and Dramas
ZUZEUM Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
Dreams and Dramas – an exhibition organized by the art and culture publishing house Arterritory.com – constitutes the largest exhibition to date in the Baltic States of contemporary art from Israel. Curated by Roy Brand, an Israeli philosopher, curator, and lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem,it brings together works by fourteen distinguished Israeli artists: Porat Salomon, Dor Guez, Nir Hod, Guy Zagursky, Noa Eshkol, Avner Ben-Gal, Sagit Mezamer, Erez Israeli, Keren Yeala Golan, Marik Lechner, Daniel Kiczales, Eitan Ben-Moshe, Sigalit Landau, and Yehudit Sasportas.Dreams and Dramas depicts contemporary Israel in all its poignant vibrancy, its joys and sorrows, its soaring dreams and fierce dramas: “For good or bad, Israel is intense, and its culture and art participates and reflects that – it is both earthy and mythic, a mixture of present-day conflicts, past traumas, harsh realities and lofty ideals,” says Brand. More particularly, this exhibition portrays a generation of IsraeliSee More
01.09.2017 - 28.01.2018 #ChamberDanceGroup #NoaEshkolArchive #WallCarpetsThe Event of a Thread
Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
The Event of a ThreadGlobal Narratives in Textiles Textiles are at the heart of the new ifa touring exhibition, which focuses on questions including: What inherent meanings and messages can be found in fabrics? What is the cultural significance of material? How can they be ‘read’? What can fabrics tell us about their origins, meanings and social roles? Which traditional textile techniques have artists appropriated, abstracted, relocated and brought back to life?In 1965, the Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described “the event of a thread” as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it meant the constant possibility of reassessing relations and restructuring connections. This reconfigurative vision is illustrated by the objects, installations and video essays assembled in the exhibition, which disclose the specific qualities of textiles, their contexts and their histories. In this way, the works highlight the complex ways in which “textility” is interwoven in our lives. For example, Vincent Vulsma’s piece TechniqueSee More