The body can express its truth when it sets up a distinct language, its own. The body becomes a map of possibilities out of its diversity when it breathes and moves its inequality in relation to other bodies.
But in these unequal relations it finds itself truly free. Go Figure is above all a space of diversity where Shmuel can examine how his body operates, evaluate what activates and what defines his movement, and turn it to a bridge that leads to a meeting point with the other.
To this call Tomer responds, accepting Shmuel’s invitation for dialogue, crossing the bridge. During the search for a balance point that will emerge from the limitations – which obstruct but also reveal the capabilities of both, a beauty is created, which wants to be no other than itself. A beauty rising from the desire to support without blurring, from the common ambition to be one territory of truth.
Co Produced by Festival Oriente Occidente and Mash Dance House Jerusalem.
Artistic direction & choreography: Sharon Fridman
Management and Artistic assistant: Tamar Mayzlish
Performers: Shmuel Dvir Cohen, Tomer Navot
Music: Noam Helfer
Light design: Yaron Abulafia
Costume Design: Miki Avni
Booking: Lola Ortiz de Lanzagorta (New Dance Management
Duration: 50 min
The work was produced with the support of the Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Art and the Israel Ministry Of Culture and Sport, Comunidad de Madrid, INAEM, Ayuntamiento de Pinto.
Go Figure was developed from the piece Shape on us created by Sharon Fridman to Vertigo Power of balance.
