{"id":3646,"date":"2023-07-10T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:04:16","slug":"ndt2-nederland-dance-theater2-at-herzliya-performing-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"NDT2: Nederland Dance Theater2 at Herzliya Performing Art Center."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dance company NDT2 showcased on its current visit, three works by choreographers Crystal Pite, Eduard Clug, and Nadav Zelner, an Israeli choreographer who is a rising name on the international dance scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company itself -NDT2- is an offspring of the illustrious NDT, founded as a modern dance company in the late fifties, yet it established its solid position in the mid-fifties with a non-conformed repertoire.  The younger company NDT2 aims to nurture a cast of chosen dancers who are more involved in artistic cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening opened with \u2018Ten Duets on A Theme of Rescue\u2019 by Crystal Pite. A very short work by a small but strong cast of five dancers. The mildly conservative choreography was composed of ten short scenes, that contained subtle references to its title. Pite created fluid passages between the duets and kept a consistent elegant stylized flair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The regimented piece \u2018Cluster\u2019 by Eduard Clug brought a shift of moods; athletic, pulsing, and more than anything else, it reflected unusual concern with form, not in the sense that the Bauhaus innovators had tied form with its content. On the dance\u2019s stage, there is a direct relation between the choreographic structure to the body\u2019s movement which is echoed in space. The formality of the dancers\u2019 progression on linear \u2019floor patterns\u2019 was a touch rigid, yet by the end, the effort culminated in a unique composed live sculpture in the style of Tableau Vivant- a sculptured frozen picture by people- often portrayed as entertainment in French courts centuries ago. Clug\u2019s final scene for his creation \u201cCluster\u201d was the most sumptuous one could imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now was the time for \u2018Bedtime Story\u2019 by Nadav Zelner. The title hardly described the content. Set to Arabic music and songs from North African countries, mostly bordering on the Sahara belt, like the Gnawa. Accompanied by drums and typical wind instruments. The polite, rather adult audience started moving to the bit in their chairs and didn\u2019t stop until the show was over. The ovation was equally loud, for a perfectly good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourteen dancers came on stage. They were the same ones we have seen earlier but they were in a completely different state of mind. It was hard to believe that they were part of the same company.   They jumped, smiled, and loosened their limbs with what seemed to be spontaneous movements at a crowded party with a hot DJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Yet in this case, Zelner had his hands on the controls, with smart swift composition changes, fusing tribal nuances and sleek city actions. A mixture, no one could resist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dance company NDT2 showcased on its current visit, three works by choreographers Crystal Pite, Eduard Clug, and Nadav Zelner, an Israeli choreographer who is a rising name on the international dance scene. The company itself -NDT2- is an offspring of the illustrious NDT, founded as a modern dance company in the late fifties, yet it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646"}],"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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}