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a dance piece

A Dance Piece began from a wish to make a work that would be easily categorized as dance. "How hard can it be to make 15 minutes of movement?" I naively asked myself. As it turns out, it can be incredibly challenging. Those fifteen minutes turned into a creation that brought me face to face with thirty years of dance demons, with my first love and with my dreams, past, present and future. 

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Choreography, Text and Performance: Ori Lenkinski

Artistic Advisor: Rachel Erdos

Outside Eyes: Anat Cederbaum, Renana Raz, Jean Gaudin, Shahar Shpalter

Music: Anne Muller, Brad Oberhofer, Sinead O Brien

This piece was developed in the Between the Seas Residency in Monemvasia, Greece, S.ES.TA Choreography Centre in Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic, Dance Complex in Cambridge, USA and Menashe Dance House Residency Program in Ein Shemer, Israel. The creation received support from the Rabinovich Foundation, the Tel Aviv Municipality and the Choreographers’ Association.

Duration: 35 minutes

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Past performances

The Suzanne Dellal Centre- Tel Aviv, Israel
Menashe Dance House- Ein Shemer, Israel
Dance Complex- Cambridge, USA
S.ES.TA- Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic
Dance Center- Emek Hamaayanot, Israel
Between the Seas- Monemvasia, Greece
 

Unlike other dance pieces, there are no illusions here. The audience is not separated from the performer by a transparent yet solid fourth wall – or, rather, this illusion is broken the moment Ori hands us her gift (you’ll have to come to know what it is). There is no illusion of a seamless flow of movement gliding through space and time, as we are facing fragments that are not afraid to become more and more fragmented. Ori does not pretend to be a mythical creature able to transcend gravity, or an abstract form in space. We hear her breathe and talk. Her narration cuts through the enigma of “dance perfection-ism” and pulls us into the melting pot of the creative process, where there is not only love but also confusion, doubt and loads of questions. Ori is looking at us looking at her looking at us, witnessing the dawn and dusk of creation. Even the illusion that there is a piece – a dance piece – that exists without the audience is gone. We are part and parcel of the show, whether we know it or not, just by being present. - Jenny Birger, Creative Writing 

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