The Shishi Be’Ora performance series and artist residency program return to the Suzanne Dellal Centre in a new edition. Four classic dance works created between 1990 and 2015 will be restaged in a stripped-back, intimate studio format, offering a fresh look and renewed attention to the movement, music and stage language that shaped Israeli choreographic discourse.
The second edition of Shishi Be’Ora focuses on the period when Israeli dance broke through locally and internationally, particularly during the 1990s and early 2000s. It was a time of searching for a new language amid social and political change, and of creating through a body freed from classical conventions. The opening of the Suzanne Dellal Centre in 1989 and the launch of new dance initiatives led to a flourishing of works that became landmarks in local culture.
Anat Fischer Leventon, CEO of the Suzanne Dellal Centre, said the series was created at the beginning of the war to provide a space where art could continue to be heard during times of pain and uncertainty. According to Fischer Leventon, direct encounters between artists and audiences turned the series into a place of living connection, while the current edition offers a way to understand the foundations of contemporary dance and open the experience to new audiences.
Naomi Perlov, the centre’s artistic director, added that Shishi Be’Ora seeks to return dance to the studio, the place where everything begins. “The body remembers the past, but responds to the present and tells a new story,” she said, noting that the encounter between past and present enables a renewed connection with the heart of the work.
Participating performances:
According to Law | Anat Katz and Erez Maayan Shalev
A satirical dance-theater piece about a premiere in which everything may go wrong. The work moves between dance, theater and humor, examining power relations, contracts, audiences and artists through a constant interplay between what happens on stage and what remains behind the scenes.
Children of the Dream | Neta Pulvermacher
A multidisciplinary work returning to the experience of the kibbutz children’s house and communal education. Through movement, voice and theater, it unfolds as a personal and collective journey through memory, moving between idealism and rupture and examining how childhood experiences are inscribed in the body and consciousness.
Muzar at 26 | Noa Dar
A new version of a work created in 2000, examining the relationship between dance and audience. The piece brings the viewer’s thoughts into the open in real time and creates a dialogue between movement on stage and the interpretations and reactions in the room.
Homesick | Iris Erez
A work exploring home and belonging within a changing space. Through physical and intimate encounters, it examines the boundaries between private and public, familiar and foreign, and the effect of personal and political change on lived experience.
Artist talks will follow some of the performances.
The performances will be held in Ora Studio at the Suzanne Dellal Centre on Friday afternoons.
More details and tickets are available on the Suzanne Dellal Centre website
