Author Archives: iris_erez

1. The War Within

   25 בApril 2024 11:48 am Leave a Comment

   A man within whom the battle memories still resonate, and his choreographer partner meet on stage. Together they try to portray the sensations and feelings that exist within him every day for already 30 years, as well as within her since she is with him. Trying to express something, tell something, process something, heal something, resist something, feel something, aiming to give form to the unseen. Maybe, by doing so, there will be a little less war, outside and within.

   Trigger warning: the show includes sensitive content and noises that may trigger stress response.

   
   
   Credits

   Choreographer: Iris Erez 

   Performers/co-creators: Iris Erez and Elad Vazana

   Music editing: Ophir Gal

   Costume design: Rosie Cna’a’n 

   Stage design: Yula Igra

   Rehearsal manager: Ruth Valensi

   External eye: Nofar Sela and Efrat Nataniel

   Production: Sigal Dahan

   Psychological guidance: Liat Shabtai Gal, Ifat Grinwald Cohen.

   Thanks to: Noam and Zurit Malamud, Hamerchav Studio Nataf, Yoav Ilan, Guy Sherf, Sharon Ramati, Amir Ben Moshe, Soul key program, Kupa, Soli Hasid, Ruth Valensi, Nino Herman & Tzruya Lahav

2. MISSING FACES -LIVE

   22 בDecember 2021 10:39 pm Leave a Comment

   In the Covid era, we’ve become accustomed to communicating through digital media based on images of heads and faces with a likeness to ancient busts. Disruptions happen often, separating sound from image, deteriorating our sense of wholeness. Hybrid situations cause time lapses. Within this reality, we ask what is happening to our sense of being and our longing for eternity? How does it affect our relationships and our human communication?

   Choreography: Iris Erez
   Dancers/Co-creators: Michal Arad, Ruth Valensi, Iris Erez
   Music: Gai Sherf
   Light Design and Artistic advice: Noa Elran
   Costume Design: Rosie Canaan
   Production: Sigal Dahan

   The digital version of the piece premiered as an original production at Machol Shalem Dance Week 2020

   Thanks to Maya Weinberg, Anat Shamgar, Eran Melkman, Elad Vazana and Merchav Kaden.

3. Homework: Exercising Wombhood

   30 בDecember 2021 1:37 am Leave a Comment

   A digital piece made in collaboration with Marjani Forte Saunders

   Presented and Commissioned by White Bird.

   Multiply, bodytalks, looking for synchronicity, ferocity, and trust. A Cross-Atlantic Virtual Women Duet.

   Choreography Dance and talkings: Marjani Forte Saunders & Iris Erez

   Music by:

   Nina Simone “Feeling” Live

   Text:

   Marjani’s Solo is accompanied with spoken text is a weave of poems essays by profound womb-holding literary scholars, poets, and liberationists:

   Nikki Giovanni/Why We Need Poetry

   Toni Morrison/Beloved

   Suheir Hammad/Poems of war, peace, women, and power

   Nayirrah Waheed/Salt

   and notes from Marjani

   Iris’s solo is accomapanied with a spoken text  written by her and inspired by Haviva Pedaya text: “also and (Stutter)”

   Videographer for Marjani’s Videos: Meena Murugesan

   Videographer for Iris’s Video: Yaniv Linton

   Editor: Tantyana Tenenbaum

   Special Thanks to:

   Our Ancestors and Our Children for their loving patience and direction

   7NMS Studios- Saturn Movement Lab

   Merchavnataf- a place for movement

   Gabri Christa, Sigal Dahan, Meena Murugesan, Kimberley Richards ph.d., Jawole Zollar, Everett Saunders, MK Abadoo, Ruth Valensi, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Khamille Joy Tyler

   Thank you for your guidance, support, scholarship, and deep listening in the crafting of this work. Thank you for your partnership and our community.

   Nina Simone for your courageous life, your ministry, and your commitment to freedom, justice, and humanity. 
   

    

   Co-Production of MASH Dance House, Jerusalem.
   This work is made possible in part through the support of the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest in San Francisco and
   the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York.

   Additional Support by Ellen Lippman and Steve Rosenberg.

4. MISSING FACES (Digital Version)

   22 בDecember 2021 10:35 pm Leave a Comment

   Based on the site-specific work”self ritual’ we try to reengage self-images that once were made as an honor for the great and now are the base for communication through social medias. Especially nowadays, during the Covid- 19 era, we are communicating through digital media based on headshots only (equivalent to the ancient busts). Disruptions happen often, separating sound form image, deteriorating our sense of wholeness. Hybrid situations cause time lapses. Within this reality we are asking what is happening to our sense of being and our longing for eternity and how does it affect our relationships and our human communication?

   The piece premiered as part of the Mash Dance week 2020

   
    

   Choreography: Iris Erez

   Dancers Co creators:: Michal Arad, Ruth Valensi, Iris Erez,
   Sound: Gai Sherf
   Lighting: Noa Elran
   Camrea:Yaniv Linton

   Costume Design: Rosie Canaan

   Production: Sigal Dahan

   Thanks  Yagur Gotin and Lotem Rosen for their generosity.

   Many thanks for Elad Vazana Yaniv Mintzer & Eran Melkman for the amazing support

   Thanks for the “Merchav” for being a home for us. and thanks so much Mash for letting us fly

5. MASS

   30 בDecember 2021 12:16 am Leave a Comment

    

   By Iris Erez

   Dancers co creators: Or Ashkenazy, Dor Frank, Maya Tamir, Matan Daskal, Zuki Ringart

   Dramaturgy and artistic advise: Sharon Zuckermn Wiser

   Music: Kim Taitelbaum in  collaboration with Yaniv Sheinfeld

   Costumes design ViVi Ben Ezra-Enki By ViVi

   Light Design Rotem Elroy

   Stage Manager Daniele Shoofra

   Sound advise Oren Cohen

   Soundman Orgad Marziano

   Production Sigal Dahan

   The piece had the honour to have a residency at Kelim Center for choreography and the support of the Lottery Culture and Art comeetee for the year 2018

6. The Makers

   22 בNovember 2018 1:38 am Leave a Comment

   In this project Iris is aiming to search the option of dancing the space, making the actual body vibrate its surrounding, becoming an environmental body. In doing so to question our ability to resist our environment, surrender to it and change it. What is between utopia and dystopia in the actual dancing body? In the gap between the will to move “out of here” and the will to move “from here” maybe lies the possibility to create a change (in Hebrew: “to dance a change”) in a deep sense.

   https://youtu.be/Gld_rUb90MQ

   Choreography: Iris Erez

   Performers: Maya Tamir, Or Ashkenazy, Zuki Ringheart, Gal Gurfong, Kim Taitelbaum, Tamar Kisch,Yuval Gal, Yarin Yossef, Mica Kupfer, Shira Marek, Sivan Sheltzer, Matan Taufik, Dina Meir, Lihi vegemister, Tama Castel, Yael Idan, Tamar Binyamini, Yair Barabash, Hagar Dromi, Noga Alper, Lital Ozanovich, Idit Maimon, Roni Kagan, Roni Ben Hemo, Sharon Barbakov, Shahar Goldberg, Yael, Amit.

    

   Music: The Knife/Local artists

   Music Director: Matan Daskal

    

   The work premiered at the Bat Yam International Festival of Street, Theater and Art 2018 and in collaboration with Heaven and Earth Festival 2018

    

   It is part of the residency program of Tights: Dance & Thought residency program and Kelim Center Residency program 2018.

7. Solo for Carla

   1:12 am Leave a Comment

   The aging female body owning itself in front of the audience, who constantly tries to hide, first by hiding aging, then the woman, and then the body.

   In the work we will try to give back the aging body the words taken from her—the place, the volume, the beauty, and to touch the mysteries of constant change.

    

   Choreography: Iris Erez

   Performer and co creator: Carla Mann

   Music: Chava Alberstein, The Pixies, Mount Eerie

   The work premiered at the Between heaven and earth festival 2018 with coproduction of Reed college, Portland, Oregon.

    

    

8. Self Ritual

   12:44 am Leave a Comment

   A process of self exploration that revisits faces from the past in an effort to understand the never ending human need for self immortalization.

   Choreography & Performance : Iris Erez

   Objects and Dramaturgy: Noa Elran

   Music: Shocking Blue/ Venus

   The work premiered at the Israel museum on December 2017 as part of the event “Present Progressive” .

   Duration: 30 min

    

    

    

    

9. First Body Many

   12 בMay 2014 2:59 pm Leave a Comment

   In an undisciplined reality, two women explore the possibilities of constant change and plurality in their bodies; through the use of both empathy and alienation, they try to neutralize existing processes and touch the possibility of singularity.

   Choreography: Iris Erez

   Performers: Iris Erez/Sharon Zukerman Weiser and Tamar Lamm

   Artistic advice: Sharon Zuckerman Weiser

   Sound: Karni Postel and Tom Darom

   Music: Sinead O’connor

   Costume Design: Tami Lebovits

   Light Design: Omer Shizaf

   The piece was created in cooperation with Inbal Aloni

   Premiered at the international dance week Produced by Machol Shalem, Jerusalem, 2013

   “Iris Erez brings to her work the same sincerity and no beautifying aggressiveness that  she got from Yasmeen Godder, but creates her own style that I would describe as wild, kicking, unraveled….

   Lam and Erez are great dancers. Their movement seems at the same time loose but also violent…The disharmony, the primal listening to the body, the supposedly lack of interest in what is designed creates an interesting whole…the directed unraveled quality is its beauty.”  (Ruth Eshel, Ha’aretz, 12.2.2014)

   “First Body Many…deals with femininity in times of change. From watching it arises a feeling of intimacy and extreme exposure….”(shir hacham, 20.1.14)

10. Local/not easy

    13 בSeptember 2016 11:09 pm Leave a Comment

    How does space construct the active body in it?

    As one who moved from the city to the village, from the beach to the mountain, from the bubble to the borderline, from singlehood to motherhood – I wish to discover how does space influence me and how does it make me who I am.

    What is in between geography, demography topography and the private body?

    Is one indeed nothing but “the imprint of his native landscape”? As Shaul Tchernichovsky’s poem suggests.

     

    Choreography and Performance: Iris Erez

    Dramaturgy: Sharon Zuckerman Weizer

    Light and Object Design: Noa Elran

    Object production: Gili Gudiano-Matilda Studio

    Sound  Design: Ophir Gal-Sofa Sound

    The song performed by Maya Belzitsman & Matan Efrat with the courtesy of Lilian Shutz

    Costume: Vivi Ben Ezra-Enki by Vivi

    Production: Sigal Dahan

    Thanks to Noam Malamud, Ella Ben Zvi, Efrat Nataniel, Academy of Music & Dance Jerusalem, Amnon &ahuva Erez, Pnina Vazana, Ram Gabay, Elad Vazana

    premiered at the Diver Festival 2016

    From the Press

    “It is one of her best works in which the show comes together in an open and graceful manner, which are translated physically into maturity and independence that move her choreography forward.” Ora Brafman, Dancetalk

    “Local /Not easy by Iris Erez: It has a magnetizing effect….very direct, very Israeli” (Ruth Eshel, Haaretz)