De De returns to the stage with “Meadow,” a new dance work by Yaara Dolev, which will premiere November 29, 2010 at the Lab in Jerusalem and December 1 at the Na Laga’at Centre in Jaffa Port.
Dancers, choreographers, partners in work and life, Amit Goldenberg and Yaara Dolev took an unusual step, taking a year off to reflect on their work process, rearticulate their vision and restructure their dance company.
Two years ago Goldenberg and Dolev connected with the Bikurei HaItim Center of the Tel Aviv Municipality to create a new program. They came to the project with a vision: to establish a senior company for professional dancers with a solid resume, and a high quality program for training dancers that will be the starting point for establishing a junior company. Within that framework they established the Tel Aviv Dance Company, taking the place of their former company De De Dance.
After the first year they decided that in order to realize their vision in a manner that corresponds to their personal and professional world view, it would be best to return to work as an independent dance company – De De Dance. This change was accompanied by an internal process of change, as the two partners redefined their artistic relationship, to allow each to realize her/his full creative potential.
Although in the past, works such as “Tokyo Oranges” were created jointly, the pair has decided to shift from a collaborative to an individual process. Goldenberg and Dolev plan to create dance works independently, their partnership evolving into more defined artistic roles of choreographer and artistic director within a given work. In the past year Yaara Dolev created “Blossom” and now is premiering her second solo work “Meadow,” in the course of these works, defining and refining her distinct modes of expression.
One of the dramatic changes taking place in the company – Amit Goldenberg has decided to retire from dance, following a final performance with Yaara of “32 Minutes of Love,” during their recent tour in Romania.
Amit and Yaara have opened a training workshop for dancers, a two year program that will emphasize the transition from studio to stage. The workshop is intended for dancers age 18 and older and will be conducted in the format of a working dance company, with attention to acquiring the necessary skills that distinguish an artist from a student. In a deep process based on tools of breathing, energetic flow and presence, along with work on improving classical and modern technique the students will learn the company repertory, its movement language and a repertory of works by leading contemporary international choreographers.
The premiere of “Meadow” will launch De De Dance Company in its new configuration with the dancers: Noa Shavit, Oren Tishler, Michal Gimelshtein, Noa Gimelshtein, and Adi Alzem.
Yaara Dolev says, “For me the word “ahu” (Hebrew: meadow) contains the sense of a pause that leads us out of daily urban life. The imagery of the work is inspired by paintings of Marc Chagall, the writing of S. Y. Agnon, and a poem by Paul Celan. The dancers spend a lot of time on the floor in movement that is complex, tangled, and intense. It’s as though the body is charged by the contact with the ground in an increasing pace that lets the dancer rise and float quickly through the space, dedicated entirely to the movement. In “Ba’ahu” the dancers move together without cues from the music, from a hypnotic slowness to complex speed, which creates intense concentration and a feeling of suspense.”
Meadow by Yaara Dolev
Music: Moshe Ben Moshe, Vivaldi. Costume Design: Maor Zabar. Set: Kinneret Kish
Performances will take place:
November 29, 2010 at 20:30 at the Lab, 28 Derech Hevron, Jerusalem.
Tickets: 02-6292000.
December 1, 2010 at 20:30, Na La’gaat, Ratzif HaAliyah HaShniya, Jaffa Port.
Tickets: 052-6779503, or www.ticketcenter.co.il
