Corps de Walk - by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar

"55 minutes of pure eye-candy" Bergens Tidende
Eyal has a strong signature and is always toying with the erotic, androgynous and sometimes the grotesque emotions in her choreographies. «Fabulous», «beautiful», «raw and relevant» are some of the words used to describe her art.

The new production for and with Carte Blanche associates with emotions and solid forms, and has several references to Killer Pig from 2009, according to the choreographer.

Sharon Eyal has worked with the Israeli musician and DJ Ori Lichtik for several years and his sound underpins her strong movement language in this performance.

Autumn tour 2011

"In recent works I have used a system of walks. For me walks are the new dance. Walks with a combination of sketched technique create a kind of hi-tech building in which I see beating hearts of gold, emotional forms.” Sharon Eyal

Sharon Eyal
Born in Israel, 1971 Eyal has been dancing with Batsheva Dance Company for more than a decade. From a leading dancer, a source of inspiration to choreographers and creators, she grew up to be a talented choreographer with a unique and personal language, leading each and every of her dancers to express his own personal and unique character.

Eyal is renowned for her uniquely personal and powerful movement vocabulary that is often submerged with delicately negotiated hence explicit references to sensuality. Dance critic Gabi Aldor describes it as follows; “the clarity of movement in Eyal’s dances is such that feminine splendor becomes a magnificence greater than life, worthy of goddesses. Her approach is a fresh reminder of an alternative femininity, maybe similar to that of Madonna who fearlessly re-invents herself every day.”

Eyal restaged Love for Carte Blanche in 2005 and produced Killer Pig for the female dancers in the company in 2009. In addition to being a dancer, Sharon was Associate Artistic Director of the Batsheva Dance Company between September 2003 and December 2004. Since 2005 Sharon is the Batsheva Dance Company House Choreographer.

PRESS QUOTES
"So cool that you refuse blinking of the fear of missing a single movement (...) It can be reminiscent of Daft Punks fantastic music video "Around The World " (...) Everything is performed accurately and the piece is 55 minutes of pure candy for the eye." Bergens Tidende

"The piece is beguilingly beautiful and aggressive at the same time, driven by  mechanical energy and mathematical precision (...) Her guest performance in Dusseldorf delivered a firework of magical scenes, constructed by android robot beings. Gorgeous and hypnotic!" Nachristen

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CREDITS
Staged by Sharon Eyal og Gai Behar*
Costumes Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar
Music, DJ, Sound Design Ori Lichtik| David Byrne | Claude Debussy | Noize Creator | Aphex Twin | Tuxedomoon | Elemental Act vs. Our Scoring | Einstürzende Neubauten | Fumiya Tanaka | David Lynch | Lichtik | Ol' Dirty Bastard | Coil
Lighting Design Torkel Skjærven
Photo Erik Berg
Video and PR photo Yaniv Cohen
Dancers Camilla Spidsøe Cohen, Caroline Eckly, Guro Rimeslåtten,  Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann, Christine Kjellberg, Rebecca Hytting, Christopher Flinder Petersen, Ole Martin Meland, Simbarashe Norman Fulukia, Shlomi Ruimi, Yaniv Cohen, Edhem Jesenkovic. Apprenticies from August 2011 Imre Van Opstal, Timothy Bartlett and Mathias Stoltenberg.

Duration appx 60 minutes - no intermission.

World premiere 13th May 2011 Turku City Theatre, Turku (Åbo), Finland. at the May Performing Arts festival during the 6th International Baltic Cities festival 2011. The May of the Performing Arts festival (Maj på scenen) is part of the Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture program.

Norwegian premiere 3rd June 2011 Grieghallen, Bergen, as a part of the Bergen International Festival 2011.
Sharon Eyal 2011 is a co-production with  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and Tanzhaus NRW Dusseldorf.
   
 

* The spelling of Bachar has changed to Behar, as this is a better translation from Hebrew.
Last Updated on 17 May 2012