{"id":3343,"date":"2021-04-06T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T08:06:39","slug":"vertigo-power-of-balance-shape-on-us-choreography-sharon-fridman-suzanne-dellal-tlv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo- Power of Balance: "Shape On Us". Choreography: Sharon Fridman. Suzanne Dellal, TLV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One\nby one, nine performers parade on Suzanne Dellal's stage and show themselves ,\nwith abilities and disabilities included.  Quiet unexpected assemblage of performers of\ndancers and handicapped performers..  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Vertigo Dance company's parallel branch: Vertigo-\nPower of Balance, is an ongoing project dedicated to integrated dancers and  participants with diverse disabilities, using\ncontact improvisation technique which expands \noptions of engagement, by physical support and help from partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nfact, the first Shape On Us scene demonstrates its basic component-\nsolidarity.  A height challenged\nperformer is being carried from her wheelchair and seated center stage, and as\nsoon as she leans back, an attentive group of dancers catch her up, repeatedly.\nLater a variation of that theme will be repeated with a different cast.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vertigo\ncommissioned Sharon Fridman- a fine Israeli choreographer residing in Madrid-\nto choreograph this work, since he worked successfully with Vertigo before and is\nwell versed in contact improvisation as his main tool. Furthermore on a\npersonal angle, Fridman grew up helping to take care of his needy mother. His\nsensitivities made him well aware of social stigmas and he would avoid exposing\nperformers to compromising  positions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed,\nhe did his utmost to give more attention to performers with limitations and mellowed\nthe dancers' roles and reduce their stage presence. They became the enablers,\nwhich tumbled the balance we expected from a company titles "Power of Balance"\nand flawed the dramaturgical flow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restrictions\nand limitation can often produce interesting and original solutions, and serve\nas springboard for diversity and originality. In Shape on Us there were rare\nmoments which sparked, since Fridman held back the dancer's individual parts\nand partially because of structure issues. The choreography leaned towards loosely\nfragmented segments of short, secondary scenes and while it's attention was\nfocused there, the seams in between were sometimes neglected.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regardless\nof the best intents, the work needed saving by more attention to the artistic\nlarge scope, and finally it had arrived almost at the last moment with a spectacular\ngroup scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nperformers were sitting on the floor in a tight formation. For a moment all one\ncould see was a pool of feet up moving like underwater creatures. The group\ntightened and all performers touched and caressed the ones next to them and\nwith the right lighting and mild sound it was both touching and extremely\nbeautiful. A true moment of grace.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0. One by one, nine performers parade on Suzanne Dellal's stage and show themselves , with abilities and disabilities included.  Quiet unexpected assemblage of performers of dancers and handicapped performers..   Vertigo Dance company's parallel branch: Vertigo- Power of Balance, is an ongoing project dedicated to integrated dancers and  participants with diverse disabilities, using contact improvisation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[878,432,731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}