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Swan Lake

Idan Cohen

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Wednesday & Thursday, April 7 & 8

7:30pm

FREE

With a stage filled with nothing but three dancers and hundreds of tomatoes, Idan Cohen's "Swan Lake" is an energetic and quirky evening combining Cohen's full-force dancing with the classic score by Tchaikovsky.

Music: Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky

Choreography: Idan Cohen

Dancers: Reut Levi, Rita Komisarchik, Daniel Gal

Swan Lake sheds the "classical" garments out of the story and the dance, revealing the personal and contemporary story hiding behind it.

The choreography is informed by the dancers' shifting identities and their personal stories and biographies, which they use to create behavioral rules and codes for themselves and the other dancers.

The work is a continuous routine of tension and changes that lead to mutual oppression of all individuals that occupy that regime.

In this defined area, which behaviors and values would each of the characters carry with them in their endless search for freedom and salvation? Those of a human, a swan or the hybridization between man and animal?

Rehearsal and Stage manager: Melanie Berson

Artistic advisor: Ran Ben-Dror

Costume designer: Anat Shterenshos

Stage design: Rotem Tashach

Light designer: Netta Koren

Producer: Einav Tal

Duration: 80 min (including an intermission)

World premiere: 28/06/09, Silesian dance theater, Bytom, Poland.

This presentation is made possible by the support of the following organizations:

Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York

Pearl Zeltzer Fund for Jewish Choreography