Variety and versatility are emphasized with the selections shown in this video featuring work from two contemporary choreographers in the international scene today, Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili and Slovakian choreographer Lukas Timulak. The company is a relatively new Spanish company called Dantzaz Kompainia.
The video is divided into three sections. The first shows clips from Itzik Galili’s piece called “Earth Apples” to music sung by Argentinean singer Mercedes Sosa. The piece was based on the tribal and primitive feeling from the music. Galili has expressed this by connecting the youth of the dancers to the ancient origins of the earth. We see dancers as workers moving in ritualistic ways planting, gathering and even playfully tossing apples. The movement has an easy going flow with a simple earthy and strong organic use of the body.
The second work shows clips from a piece choreographed by Lukas Timulak, called, A Place Between. The music are selections of Santakulla, Hauschka and Aevo Part. This piece is based on the theme of the impermanence of life, and how people continually seek new experiences, places and situations. However, these are only temporary destinations, as we are constantly in between something. This piece explores this “in between/ness” as fleeting moments between two actions and symbolically those between birth and death. Rather than being a heavy philosophical study, Timulak expresses the lightness of life with a technical and vigorous movement language.
The third section shows clips from Itzik Galili’s piece called Flash De Luxe. This piece is based on the original rhythms and melodies of traditional Busque music composed and performed by Percossa, Indo Paxjal. In this piece Galili opposes any intimate connections using the work as a mirror, offering us only reflections of what we create inside us. Choreographically, the piece showcases the dancer’s technical physicality and bounding energy. A note of interest is that Galili “created” the cuting edge ligthing format that we see in this piece, that has become popular in a lot of contemporary work today.
What I really like about all the pieces is that the choreographers have created movement that is very expressive and poetic and use a wide range of movement skill and possibility. All the pieces are beautifully danced.
Hope you enjoy the variety, and SHARE!
Leave a Reply