"Bring water, bring wine, waiter,

Bring me bouquets of flowers, Bring –

I feel like boxing with Eros."

(Anacreon)

"…Every granule of stone, flicker of mineral from the mountain, washed this night, is in itself a world. The struggle to reach peaks is enough to fill the hearts of men. We should picture to ourselves, Sisyphus happy.

(The Myth of Sisyphus, Elbar Kami)

The two texts above, bring us to speculate about the meaning of desire, what lights the flame of passion. When is it controlled by Dionysius, who lies, deceives and removes from reality, bringing both danger and redemption simultaneously?

When is it beneficial, creating a stimulating life, saving us from the pain of human failure? How can the libido be found when it seems to have gone.

The division between the godlike, the sublime and the fantastic and human encounters, painful in their reality of suffering, death and daily difficulties is not dichotomous. We live and experience life in all its endless manifestations and find Eros within the wars of our reality; sometimes it is an escape, sometimes a deepening search within ourselves, and sometimes a desire to lose ourselves, sometimes it is the need to stay alive while experiencing an internal death, and sometimes it is a physical need, primitive, the creative essence of love. We search in the movement of our bodies for the source of creative energy that both engenders and destroys life.

By Einat Ganz and Noa Shiloh

Costumes: Rosie Canaan

Lighting design: Rotem Elroy

Rehearsal director: Alexandra Shmurak

Photographer: Zvika Toren

The piece had developed in Menashe Dance House, Zagreb Dance Center in the frame of international exchange of artistic residencies with the partnership of Shalem Dance House and with the support of Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts.

20:00

26.3.24 יום שלישי

Hall 4

Eros

Noa Shiloh and Einat Gansc