Yasmeen Godder's new creation "Love Fire", is performed completely to the soundtrack of well- known classical waltz music, ranging from Shostakovich to Strauss, through a very personal and private prism and with the desire to be moved and charged by it without judging it. Given the cultural and personal distance from this music, a complex and humorous journey has evolved dealing with different understandings of what is "romantic". The desire to fall in love, to lose control, to be transformed and to be taken by passion is explored through physical and plasticized images which give a new twist to stereotypes of male and female identity, and the roles they play within a relationships. Within this work Godder continues her long time collaboration with the dramaturge Itzik Giuli, and the dancer Eran Shanny and for her first time is collaborating with the visual artist Yochai Matos, known in Tel-Aviv for both his guerrilla street work and gallery exhibitions, who is responding with a performative-visual installation at the end of the work.
C R E D I T S :
Choreography:Yasmeen Godder
Dramaturgy: Itzik Giuli
Creating Performers: Yasmeen Godder, Eran Shanny
Guest Performer and Live Fluorescent Installation: Yochai Matos
Music: Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube; Jean Sibelius - La valse triste;
Dimitri Shostakovitch- Valse n°2 ;
Arnold Schoenberg- Valse de Chopin from Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21;
Frederic Chopin-Opus 70 in G-flat major;
Pyotr Tchaikovsky- Valse Sentimentale;
Aram Khachaturian- Waltz from Masquerade Suite.
Costumes and Props: Inbal Lieblich, Eran Shanny, Yasmeen Godder
Light Designer and Technical Director: Uri Rubinstein
Sound editing and design: Eyal Shindler
Sound Engineer: Oren Cohen
Producer: Shira Korona, Hagar Ben-Ishai
Administration and International Touring: Guy Hugler
World Premiere: Suzanne Dellal Center, "Curtain Up Festival 2009
European Premiere: February 2010, Théâtre de la Place, Liege, Belgium
Co-Production: Curtain Up Festival 2009, Tel Aviv, Israel, Théâtre de la Place, Liege, Belgium, Hebbel am Ufer,Berlin, Germany
The first part of the creation was commissioned by Les Subsistances , Laboratoire de création artistique ,Lyon, France and Kunstfest Weimar GmbH, Weimar, Germany.
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R E V I E W S :
"Godder's creation are an opportunity to look at a work which has been born out of a long process which never really ends, and continues to be exist on stage and refuses to be fixated. This is an invitation to see an artist with a rare bravery....."Love Fire" is an amazing work". Gitit Ginat, Achbar Hayir Online
"Godder's success story in the last decade needs no explanation....in solo and duet images she exposes teeth of humor, and emotional excitements in the exploration of understanding the concept of Romanticism...The design in which Godder, and the dancer Eran Shanny, is outstandingly beautiful..." Zvi Goren, Habama
"Yasmeen Godder doesn't stop to surprise with bravery and great talent, she does all that her heart desires...." Ruth Eshel, Ha'aretz
"a complex and touching work and Yasmeen Godder and Eran Shanny are really wonderful. The movement between them is rich and full of detail and they transform on stage to self-defined bodies independent of the definition of a place or reference. Their movement ability turns them into absolute presences. The most beautiful of which is rooted in being at the present moment." Anat Zacharia, NRG website
"an invitation to visit the colorful cabaret of the choreographer who butchers her heart and guts out in front of the audience, but this time she does it with lots of humor. Luckily, the same explosive element which characterizes her previous works, received here a place full of air and smart sense of humor". Shelly Kling, Globes
Shortened Critics
"She does whatever she feels like, with daring and great talent." Ruth Eshel, Ha'aretz
"A piece not seeking comfort but rather creating a universe for itself."Rona Kuperboim, Yedioth Aharonoth
"A delightful, smart statement." Shelly Kling, Globes