Liat dror nir ben gal Dance Company
Liat dror nir ben gal dance company
Two Room Apartment - the first work by Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal - won the first prize in the Shades in Dance (Gvanim Bemahol) Festival in Israel and then in banyole in France. That work opened doors in Israel and abroad for the dancing couple, who worked as a dyad until they started their own Dance company .
Their second work, Inta Omri - a dance based on the music of Egyptian superstar Umm Kulthum - opened their movement language to new dimensions. Through it, they explored ways for human movement to open to everything that is good and pretty in this world, without ignoring its weak spots, difficulties and pain.
Dancing to Arabic tunes taught and guided their bodies to work differently. The piece opened a new space for Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal, in Israel and abroad.
This work was followed by Dance of Nothing, which strengthened and empowered the desire to balance out artistic expression with the need to create a harmonic reality, with healing, attentiveness, and understanding.
After the duo toured the world extensively, they felt it was time to make changes. Dror and Ben-Gal started a family. At the same time, they were facing Israel's stressful, violent, and uncommunicative political reality, as well as the pressures that the world of dance imposed, physically collapsing under the efforts. It was time for change. They made an extraordinary move and relocated to Mitzpe Ramon, a small and simple township in the heart of the Negev Desert. There, they rented a deserted industrial hangar and slowly and gradually turned it into an enchanted palace of dance and harmony, surrounded by greenery. They named it Adama, that is - Earth or Land. For a while, the two lost touch with the world at large and the world of dance.
In this peaceful place, Dror and Ben-Gal started searching for the source of human movement when it is not driven by a judgmental mind, not pushed to the physical limit, but allows the body to form as a real and stable home. They addressed the connection between everyday life and dance qualities. Hangar Adama became home for numerous healing workshops, support groups, and of course - dance, with no contradiction between relaxation and expression, but rather a strong bond between the two. Through that period, a professional dancing troupe was formed. Having practiced for 7 years, it now feels it is ready to reopen to what it has left behind.
"שדה תעופה"
" Airfield Terminal B"
Choreography:
Liat dror
Company Dancers:
Michal Oren Arazi
Avital Ifergan
Elik Gilad
Siri bar on
oria rich
air dance:
Michal Oren Arazi
Lighting Designer:
Eliran Silver
LIAT DROR NIR BEN GAL DANCE COMPANY
"Airfield Terminal B" was created using dance material we have been working with over the last year, and is based on our ability to give and receive weight, in order to develop within us a sense of the cyclical nature of our selves and the world around us.
In this show, each of the dancers creates his own base from which to take off into his world. It is an attempt to create a space which can contain our ability to rise upwards from stable ground, as well as to learn how to land softly and safely.
We believe that only when each of us can independently, safely and quietly rise up and go back down, it is possible to have a shared space, in which each individual accepts freedom and, with it, responsibility.
An airfield is a meeting place of departures and arrivals, a place of freedom of movement. At the same time, it represents a border crossing. With the ability to go beyond our boundaries comes the responsibility to accept and recognize our own and others' boundaries, both privately and politically.
Airport is accompanied by an original soundtrack, and lets us go through the hardships of life with gentleness and joy, through acceptance and compassion - an approach arising from observing the cycles of nature, which are always present in all directions – forward, down, backward and up.