tHE bAD / Shuv

In the organizer's words:

Double dance evening
by Hofesh Shechter and Eyal Dadon

Hofesh Shechter is one of the most outstanding and sought-after personalities on the contemporary dance scene. He is known for his impressive choreographies in a unique movement language, characterized by high physicality and physicality, with his own music compositions in epic explosiveness. tHE bAD is an abstract choreography that aims to break through common patterns and structures, to live and celebrate anarchy, but also to question it. The piece celebrates freedom and pure movement, explores rhythm and choreographic structure(s) and examines the connection between music and movement, the connection between life and death, in a suction-like, vibrating sound mix.

In Shuv, Eyal Dadon explores the cyclical relationship between life and death. The title Shuv, which means "again" in Hebrew, refers to the continuous coming and going of life and death. For Dadon, death is not just the end, but a constant companion of life, which becomes visible in the work in the flowing transitions between musical and dance layers. The dancers' movements are characterized by a constant "restarting", as if death is only ever the harbinger of a new beginning. The interplay of sound designer Gil Yaacov Nemet and the inclusion of digital and traditional sounds from Bedouin cultures as well as the connection with John Adam's shaker loops lend the choreography a unique dimension that understands death as a constant presence in an endless cycle of birth, life and decay: a deep examination of the constant transitions in life and transience.