Four Fantasies and a Monkey
Yossi Berg & Oded Graf
Tel Aviv-based choreographers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf began collaborating in 2005. They’ve garnered a reputation for boundary-pushing work that is highly physical, poignant, and clever. Berg and Graf toured their productions worldwide (Festival Montpellier Danse, American Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater NYC, DansensHus Stockholm, SIDance South Korea, to name but a few) and received several prestigious international awards. They commissioned their works as guest choreographers in numerous dance companies and universities.
Yossi & Oded are artistic directors, inventors, researchers, dancers, educators, and mentors; in the last three years Yossi has been leading the 'Sadna Gaaton School' and Oded has been leading the 'Curtain Up' Dance Festival across Israel.
They received the Israel’s Ministry of Culture Award for Outstanding Choreographers and the Rosenblum Prize for Artistic Excellence in the Performing Arts.
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Yossi Berg & Oded Graf
Tonight, the empty space becomes a playground, for diving into the depths of the subconscious, for associative swings between pieces of identity, raiding and wearing masks. A night trip between realism and fantasy. We meet to be together, to examine our multiplicity, our physical form, to imagine, to create worlds and to remind ourselves of the possibility of getting out of the dreariness of everyday life. The work takes inspiration from Peter Brook's mythological book "The Empty Space" in which he outlines the roles of the theatrical experience and its necessity for the lonely soul.
Concept & choreography: Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Creating performers: Ziv Besor, Amit Zaretsky, Oded Graf, Tamar Kish
Costumes: Ilanit Shamia
Musical advice: Binya Reches Lights: Yoav Barel
Outside Eye: Rachel Erdos
Supported by: An original production of MASH Dance House, Jerusalem, The Lottery Council for Arts, Tel Aviv Municipality, The Ministry of Culture