Monday, 29 December 2014, 20:30
Klipa Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel
Choreography:
Adi
Paz
Dancer:
Adaya Berkovitz
Music:
composer: Hilit Rozental Singer: Stela Gotshtain
Lighting:
Yanir Liberman
Genre:
Dance Theater.
Adi
Paz is an Israeli actress, maker\choreographer and dancer. At her new piece post
it, she brings to light one of the difficult issues of the society,
which is sexual harassment. Through her piece, she is trying to touch on this
sensitive subject, with focusing on the world of images of post sexual
trauma.
As
they present it, stories about sexual harassment are occurred just under our
noses. In this sense, a lot of people and especially women are living in their post
trauma way of living. Through this performance, she created a sensitive story that
rising questions that we all should ask ourselves. For example, who are we
tends to blame in those situations, and way? Is there something that can
actually have been done in order to avoid from those cases.
The
young talented dancer Adaya Berkovits, performed a complex character which was developing
through the piece. Dressed with short jeans and blue shirt, her childish pink
underwear is peeking out, she is playing on the fine line between being a girl
and a woman. This duality that she brings through her character is quit
confusing – on the one hand, she is becoming more sexual and flirting with the
audience, and on the other, she seems to be like a young girl. Within 40 min
performance, Adaya succeeded to fascinate her audience with strong charisma,
exploding energy, playfulness and honesty.
In
my opinion, the most powerful part of the performance was at the end. In some
moment, she went toward the audience, and slowly she started to travel between
us. Crossing between the audience, her gaze starring into the space, with no
clear direction and she is looking but not seeing. At once, we could all feel
the compassion and the wish to help her, supporting her physically when she is
about to fall.
However,
the choreography itself, together with music, was unbalanced with the strong
presence of the dancer. It created some drops in the intensity and wasn't
developed enough in order to complete the performance into one whole thing.
In
spite of it, post it is an intimate and touching performance
which deals with a sensitive subject that should be talked more. Adi touches in
those areas that we usually trying to avoid from deal with.
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written by: Keren Ben-Shachar
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