What We Are Not; Dawn of the Desiring-Machines
Uri Shafir
Liron Weissman
Dancer, choreographer a performance artist Uri Shafir is a graduate of MASPA (kibbutz Ga'aton Dance Workshop), Kelim Choreography Center (Israel), and the MA choreography program MASTER EXERCE in Montpellier France, at ICI-CCN (artistic director - Christian Rizzo). Creating works since 2009, and presenting them on different platforms in Israel and abroad. First prize winner of MASH international choreography competition 2015. As a dancer, worked in Ensemble Batsheva Dance Company, and in dance works by Yasmeen Godder, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Guy Gutman and more. Uri is also a Gaga teacher.
About the show
A Queer Science-Fiction-Spectacle
In days of global pandemic, domestic warfare, and fragile reality that seems to change in the blink of an eye, Uri Shafir and his dancers seek to exercise the dance performance as a remedy, or a curse, and turn the theater into a space that celebrates instability and absurdity, clinging onto pleasure, escaping common sense, common ground, and the common body. They navigate in the multiplicity of our identities - what we are, and what we are not, real and fictitious, organic and synthetic, and seek nothing but to relish in pleasure - as a final resort in a world under catastrophe.
Efrat Mazor
Credits
Choreography: Uri Shafir
Creative Dancers: Anat Vaadia, Michael Yalon, Uri Shafir
Music: Tomer Baruch, Uri Shafir, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert
Live Sound: Tomer Baruch
Costumes & Scenography: Reut Shaibe
Light Design: Nadav Barnea
Outside Eye: May Zarhy
Artistic Advisors: Dana Ruttenberg, Oded Graf
Photos: Efrat Mazor
The work quotes choreography by Isadora Duncan.
The work was premiered online in Curtain Up Festival 2020, and was supported with the assistance of the Israeli ministry of culture, Mifal Hapais Council for the Culture and Arts, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts, and by Yasmeen Godder Studio as part of a Resident Artist Program.