Arrowed is a personal piece created by Bobbi Jene Smith, a dancer in the Batsheva Dance Company, first launched in 2010, its trajectory reaches into the future. The next performances will take place on November 19, 2013 in the Suzy Studio of the Batsheva Dance Company, 5 Yehiely Street, Tel Aviv, at 19:00 and 21:00.
A performance piece centered around the metaphor and format of an interview, Arrowed was written, choreographed and directed by Bobbi Jene Smith and is intended to be performed by different individuals, in different times and places, with each performance influenced by the context and environment. I first saw Arrowed in 2012, during Surrealism in Alaska, an evening of performances created by Batsheva dancers:
Arrowed (choreography: Bobbi Jene Smith) reflected a very different sensibility: two dancers (Shamel Pitts and Rebecca Hytting) sat opposite one another in a situation that was somewhere between an audition and interrogation, as Shamel impassively directed questions and instructions at Rebecca, varying rhythms and intonations as she was tested physically and emotionally, creating a connection between the word, action, imagery and emotional connotations.
Arrowed is an ongoing project, to be performed and documented in different ways, with each performance becoming part of the research. Smith has created a facebook page to function as an archive for the work, view it here.
Tickets for the November 19th performance are 65 NIS, and may be ordered online www.batsheva.co.il or call: 03-6171471.
Arrowed – from a performance in Norway, November 2013:
