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I’ll be right back
30 בNovember 2014 10:39 am Leave a Comment
In an age where the private and the public are entangled and the self is in search of endless representations, the body is on the threshold of disappearance. Within landscapes of disembodiment a man and a woman examine the possibility of intimacy and the ability of the body to remain present.
I’ll be right back trailer תכף אשוב from iriserez on Vimeo.
Choreography: Iris Erez
In collaboration with the media artist : Daniel Landau
Dancers Co Creators: Ofir Yudlevitch, Ayala Frenkel
Artistic Adviser & Rehearsal Manager: Sharon Zuckerman Weiser
Music: Goldbergs variations/ Johan Sebastian Bach played by Glenn Gould, Princes(Feat.Tinchy Stryder)/ Gang
Gang Dance
Light Design:Omer Sheizaf
Costume Design: Rosalind Noctor
Code:Dan Stavy
Photographer: Gadi Dagon
Production:Anat Asody
Coproduction: Center Choreographique National de Rillieux-la-Pape under the artistic direction of Yuval Pick
The work premiered at the Curtain Up Festival 2014 under the Artistic Direction of Itzik Giuli
The creation enjoyed the support of the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts
From the press
” I’ll Be Right Back, choreographed by Iris Erez, and performed by Ayala Frenkel and Ofir Yudilevitch is a funny, tender work that examines myriad relationships.
In movement and text, Ofir and Ayala both deliver a compelling performance that instantly draws one in, together and apart they are wonderful to watch…a diverse and imaginative array of bodies coming together in different combinations of connection and mis-connection conveys the complexities of relationships in a way that is at once very entertaining, yet nuanced and replete with associations.” (Ayelet Dekel, Midnight east)
Public Intimacy
12 בApril 2016 12:17 pm Leave a Comment
In a world in which smartphones and tablets evade all communication, where the outer world evades daily, with no restrictions, our homey space, and the public spheres, from the bus to facebook, are mixed with the private lives of the others we need to rexamine the relationship between the 2 spheres. How we communicate intimacy? what is intimacy? Are we haunted by technology or does it open new ways of conciousness and reciprocity. In an outdoor performance we will try to touch some of this questions through our body, the square and the audience.
Performers co-creators: Francesco Collavino, Marco D’Agostin, Valentina Dal Mas, Amanda Kmett’ Pendry, Francesca Lastella, Camilla Parini, Rafal Pierzyn’ski, Sabrina Rigoni, Barbara Stimoli.
Music: Paulo Piaser , The Knife
Photographer: Davide Bazzerla
The work was created and premiered during the college danza in Biennale danza Venezia 2014.
Shuttered
3 בJune 2014 5:03 pm Leave a Comment
Sketches of disappearance, absent presence and eyes that refuse to see.
Dancers co-creators: Asaf Aharonson, Carmi Zisapel, Bosmat Nossan, Ilaya Shalit
Live Music: Yaniv Mintzer
Costume Design: Inbal Lieblich
Light Design: Tamar Or
The piece premiered at the Curtain Up festival 2011 under the artistic direction of Tamar Borer
Homesick
12 בAugust 2014 11:37 pm Leave a Comment
In the space between the familiar and the unfamiliar, people search for a place in their bodies and surroundings where they can feel ‘at home’. Their encounters redefine the intimate and public spheres as interwoven action arenas, and raise questions about the necessary and inevitable existence of the Other within us. The concept of Home breaks down into different meanings ranging from the private to the political, and reveals the fragility of the place in which we live in.
Choreography by Iris Erez
Dancers co-creaters: Asaf Aharonson/ Adi Boutrous, Ofir Yudilevitch/ Matan Daskal, Tami Lebovits
Sound design: Reckless Feet
Music: Mount Eerie, A Silver Mt.Zion, Reckless Feet
Costume design: Inbal Lieblich and Tamar Levit
Light design: Tamar Or
Stage design: Hilla Ben-Ari
Rehearsal Director: Alex Shmurak
Production: Alon Schwabe
The piece was premiered at the Curtain Up festival 2010 under the artistic direction of Tamar Borer
From the press:
“This is a fullhearted work that bleeds towards us…”Homesick” is doing something that other dance works have not done here ever before-It relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover, it also creates through it a political statement.It relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover-it creates through it a political statement.” Shir Hacham, WallaIt relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover-it creates through it a political statement.” Shir Hacham, Walla
The same supreme quality that appeared when Erez was on stage suddenly reappears, though she herself is not on stage.” (Shir Hacham, Walla, 28/2/2011)
“There is dance and there is the dance of Iris Erez. A dance that dances like the way we breath, without the need of pathos,and it is intuitive and intellectual all at once.(Anat Zecharia, Yediot Acharonot, 21/8/2011)
“What makes the piece so beautiful and touching is the movement language and the hypnotizing performance of the 3 dancers that live fully the complicated process that Erez created.(Zvi Goren, Habama, 27/12/2011)
Canova project
3 בJune 2014 5:02 pm Leave a Comment
Choreography: Iris Erez
Dancers creators: Valentina Buldrini, Rosanna Chierico, Claudia Franceschini, Francesca Foscarini, Martina La Ragione, Giada Meggiolaro, Debora Petrina, Mariangela Tinelli
Music: Comaneci-Francesca Amati & Jenny Burnazzi
The work was a site specific work commitioned by the Operaestate Festival 2007 and performed at the Canova Museum, Possagno, italy
Manual: users guide
5:07 pm Leave a Comment
Two women trying to break the mechanism of habitual behavior and to meet one another, and a singer that echoes pieces of memories, experiences and thoughts about the possibility of meeting the other in a space that is neither virtual nor real.
Choreography: Iris Erez
Dancers: Alex Shmurak, Iris Erez
Singer: Edit Zamir
Music: Gorecki, Throbbing Gristle, Concrete Diving, Karni Postel
Music Editing: Orpaz Agranov
Costume: Eran Shani and Inbal Lieblich
Light Designer: Neta Koren & Omer Sheizaf
The piece was created for Opera Fringe and Center 2008, Yafo, Israel under the artistic direction of Itzik Giuli
Press:
“In “manual” an exhausted dancer comes into the stage and tries to revive something. Another dancer joins her. She is innocent, young and mechanic. The older one makes her go through the catastrophe of desire. It seems like both of them represent an internal struggle of the same diva….”(the quartet members, NRG)
It’s not personal
16 בJanuary 2014 2:03 pm Leave a Comment
An attempt to become a contemporary image fails gradually
This work deals with the different faces that are within us and in our attempt to handle these internalized others-an attempt that makes every solo actually into a duet.
During the solo the dancer uses a little doll that acts as her ideal double, on which she can manifest her internal images. As a distorted paraphrase on Oscar Wilde’s story “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, the doll stays sweet and innocent while the dancer pass through life itself.
Choreography and performance: Iris Erez
Music: Uffie&feads, Felix Da Housecat
Music editing: Matan Zamir
Costume: Inbal Lieblich & Iris Erez
Light design: Uri Rubinstein
Photography: Itay Marom
The solo was premeired at Zirat Machol Festival 2008, Hazira Habintchumit, Jerusalem, Israel.
From the press:
“Iris Erez, a dancer with a fascinating presence…tries to peel herself from any fake masks. She uses mimics that become themselves a choreography. (Ruth Eshel, Ha’aretz)
Technichal details:
Duration: 12 minutes
Number of performers: 1
Minimal stage size: 5 width 6 depth
Special needs: a back wall and a white linuleum
Temporary
3 בJune 2014 5:01 pm Leave a Comment
A dancer in her own space trying to capture time through the paradox of destruction and production that her body holds.
Mundane clothes become metaphorical references ranging from body parts to memories, and raising questions about femininity, performance, exposure, and our ability to say something meaningful.
Choreography: Iris Erez
Performance: Iris Erez/ Maya Weinberg
Music: Hanayo, Vanessa Paradis
Music Editing: Jeremy Berenheim & Yaniv Mintzer
The piece was premiered at the Operastate Festival 2007, Bassano, Italy.
Photography: Itay Marom, Bart Grietens
“To her solo “temporary” she brings the unique contradiction of a fragile but powerfull character.… strong and moving solo…an amazing performer.” (Shelly Kling, Globes)
“”Temporary” is a personal and intense solo that deals with the questions: what is it to be a dancer? What does it mean to perform? And what are the audiences expectations from the performer?
Erez is an artist that insists to keep herself very exposed. She moves between the clothes that are spread on the floor with a hopeless urgency, hitting herself till we can almost hear the sound of a person breaking.”(Anat Zacharia, Ma’ariv)
Intimate and choral, brave and fragile, intriguing and fierce.From the high-impact entry, hidden by a pile of clothes that hardly carries on the scene, until the last perforating glance, Iris Erez conquers with her performances, emblematic of the effects generated by the opposites and the fractures of our contemporaneity.
The different parts of the body become other ‘self’, multiple identites who fight and become harmonized in a frantic energy between provocation and discomfort – sexual, psychological – highlighting trough the body all the internal contradictions, in addition to the ‘temporaneity’ of each state.” (Simona Kappellini, Krapp’s last post)
Protection Formula
13 בAugust 2014 12:09 am Leave a Comment
A woman, a dress, an armour, transparency. Chronics of a local protection.
Choreography and performance: Iris Erez
Costume Design: Nofar Galpaz
Music: L’amour est Blue / Paul Mauriat and his Orchestra (1968)
Video editing: Michael Peretz
8mm film: Amnon and Ahuva Erez
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This solo piece was created originally for Intimadance Festival, Tel- Aviv 2003.
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Press :
“In her first work, a compact solo entitled Protection Formula, Iris Erez used an inventive vocabulary of gestures and physical attitudes… to conjure up distraught images of emotional defense patterns.”(Dance Magazine 2003)
“In the program the Israeli Iris Erez Protection Formula was clearly made by a more experienced choreographer and the piece felt like a complete small creation. For her solo she was dressed in bubble wrap which started to make sounds as she was starting to move and get freer.” .( Minna Tawast, Artikkeli Jatkuu Lehdessä)
Homesick
12 בMay 2014 3:06 pm Leave a Comment
In the space between the familiar and the unfamiliar, people search for a place in their bodies and surroundings where they can feel ‘at home’. Their encounters redefine the intimate and public spheres as interwoven action arenas, and raise questions about the necessary and inevitable existence of the Other within us. The concept of Home breaks down into different meanings ranging from the private to the political, and reveals the fragility of the place in which we live in.
Choreography by Iris Erez
Dancers co-creaters: Asaf Aharonson/ Adi Boutrous, Ofir Yudilevitch/ Matan Daskal, Tami Lebovits
Sound design: Reckless Feet
Music: Mount Eerie, A Silver Mt.Zion, Reckless Feet
Costume design: Inbal Lieblich and Tamar Levit
Light design: Tamar Or
Stage design: Hilla Ben-Ari
Rehearsal Director: Alex Shmurak
Production: Alon Schwabe
Photography: Itay Marom
The piece was premiered at the Curtain Up festival 2010 under the artistic direction of Tamar Borer
From the press:
“This is a fullhearted work that bleeds towards us…”Homesick” is doing something that other dance works have not done here ever before-It relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover, it also creates through it a political statement.It relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover-it creates through it a political statement.” Shir Hacham, WallaIt relates to a philosophical idea. Moreover-it creates through it a political statement.” Shir Hacham, Walla
The same supreme quality that appeared when Erez was on stage suddenly reappears, though she herself is not on stage.” (Shir Hacham, Walla, 28/2/2011)
“There is dance and there is the dance of Iris Erez. A dance that dances like the way we breath, without the need of pathos,and it is intuitive and intellectual all at once.(Anat Zecharia, Yediot Acharonot, 21/8/2011)
“What makes the piece so beautiful and touching is the movement language and the hypnotizing performance of the 3 dancers that live fully the complicated process that Erez created.(Zvi Goren, Habama, 27/12/2011)