{"id":3442,"date":"2021-09-27T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:40:17","slug":"yasmeen-godder-practicing-empathy-3-at-suzanne-dellal-24-09-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Yasmeen Godder- 'Practicing Empathy #3', at Suzanne Dellal 24\/09\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Choreographer \/dancer Yasmeen Godder is a prominent name on our contemporary\ndance scene for over two decades.  Her\nlatest creation 'Practicing Empathy #3' a part of a chain under 'Practicing\nEmpathy' title -commenced in 2019- is composed of three separate links. The\nfirst two creations in that series involve spectators and dancers on informal\nperformance' spaces, practicing actions that enhance their ties through\nemotional involvement, paving a way  to demonstrate\na rising degree of empathy  involving trust-\nwhich is the designated goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar techniques were practiced in some of Godder's earlier creations.\n She was keen on finding ways to research\nthe issue through various verbal and corporal means that eventually could be\nexpressed through dance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The process that enabled interactions between audience and dance\nprofessionals, led to mellow hierarchy by acting on same stage, and by building\nclose encounters which led to those empathic human contacts, a rather fresh,\nchallenging notion .     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godder had originally planned to do P.E. #3  as a group work. Under the Covid-19 constraints\nshe decided to work solo for the first time, after years of working with her\ngroup. The performance took place on Dellal's stage that was surrounded by\nchairs for over fifty viewers. Godder \nopened with a long set of energetic skips and jumps accompanied by determent\nhands and feet  gestures while making\nsure she keeps an eye contact on her rounds with each spectator. She got stamina\nand seemed more fluid than before as she crisscrossed the central space. It was\nsurprising to hear her say that dancing solo didn't feel natural to her. I\nwouldn't have guessed, since this section performed with a tight and concise\nshowmanship, translated into unusually expressive facial innuendoes, as if one\ncould see thoughts and fleeting unplanned inner emotions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In between scenes, Godder introduced several gorgeous, soft and colorful\nfiber-art sculptured objects made by talented Gili Avishar, and looked for ways\nto use them, which is what you do with such props. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The next section came and unexpectedly,\nit turned out to be a bona fide workshop session as Godder asked viewers to\nclose their eyes and go through a sort of spiritual guidance, and guided\nimagery. The lights on stage were turned down while Godder sat under the only\nspotlight, illuminated as a Master would. Subject wise, the session-section was\nwithin the context yet a bit out of sync with the evening's reasonable flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last part enabled Godder to let herself go far, but stay within her\ncomfort zone. In fact, she was the one woman show in an imagined fair, giving\ndelightful entertainment act with wonderland's pizzazz .  She strapped on her body a contraption with a\npair of large dolls on it, which enable the threesome to dance and be merry while\nthe soft dolls dangled in sync with her moves, exposing a playful facet of her:\nGodderish to the core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Choreographer \/dancer Yasmeen Godder is a prominent name on our contemporary dance scene for over two decades.  Her latest creation 'Practicing Empathy #3' a part of a chain under 'Practicing Empathy' title -commenced in 2019- is composed of three separate links. The first two creations in that series involve spectators and dancers on informal performance'…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[924,314,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}