A warrior & A Dreamer

Noa Eshkol was born on February 29, 1924. February of 2024 was meant to be the opening month of the ‘centennial’ events commemorating her birth. The catastrophe of the 7th of October, and the war that has been going on since then has reshuffled the deck.

A Warrior & A Dreamer is a series of intimate studio performances born from the desire to celebrate Eshkol’s hundredth birthday while referring to the difficult and shaky reality that we have been subjected to since the 7th of October.

In October of 1973, with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War a dancer in Eshkol’s group – Shmulik Seidel – was conscripted to the fighting. In response, Eshkol suspended work on the dances until Seidel’s safe return. In those weeks of war, Eshkol began a new artistic practice, creating tapestries from scraps of fabric; an occupation she would continue until the end of her life.

In holding the Warrior and Dreamer performances, the members of the group – as a reversal of Eshkol’s act fifty years ago – present a selection of her dances, which in the name she gave them, and in the movement elements that she created in them, echo themes of war.

A selection of Eshkol’s tapestries, related to Israel’s wars, will be displayed on the studio walls. Performing the dances against the backdrop of the wall tapestries, places the theme of war as an intersection where Noa Eshkol’s modes of creative practice meet.

 

 

Performing dates:

28.2.2024 19:00
29.2.2024 12:00