Sections from works by Noa Dar - Part 1

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Works by Noa Dar on this DVD: (Noa Dar Dance Group’s current repertoire)
1. Tetris (2006) Collaboration with visual artist Nati Shamia Ofer. Original music created by composer Uri Frost, 7 dancers. Premiere: Accor Festival for Alternative Theater. Duration: 80 min.

Tetris is touching upon the tensions between movement and fixation, proximity and distance, between the estrangement of alienation and an involving, mutual experience.

“Tetris is a spectacular creation, releasing from the body excitement and shock, causing turbulent and mind stimulated interactions between dancers and spectators.” ("City mouse" online)

2. Anu (Us) (2009)
Dancers: Coralie Ladam, Alon Bracha, Noa Shilo, Original Music and editing: Roy Yarkoni,
Premiere: Curtain Up Festival, Duration: 45 Min.
A story of an individual identity, which was formed by a society that became withdrawn, emotionally opaque and uniformly thinking; national myths, history and private biography, woven together in a tangle of influences that dictate its life course.

“It is a deep and rationalistic dance, full of symbol’s and humor, with political implications to the place we live in.” Ruth Eshel, “Ha’aretz”, 30.11.09

3. Arnica (2007)
Performers: Michal Mualem, Shira Rinot, Noa Dar, Uri Frost on electric guitar. Music by Tom Waits, Handel, Courinderu, Purcell, Premiere: Isreal Festival, Duration: 55 Min.

Arnica collects and presents 17 short solos (1-4 min.), created during the last decade. Laying these solos side by side, enables a retrospective observation which examines difference, contradiction and similarity between the inner world and its environment.
"Arnica by Noa Dar becomes a fascinating touching dance evening, which succeeds to make these series of solo excerpts into a full, complex, multi-layers creation that deeply touches the routes of dance and at the essence of the dancers' art” ( Zvi Goren, “Habama”)

4. The Sweetest Embrace (2004)
Dancers: Shira Rinot, Oded Graf. Music: Bari Adamson. Duration: 20 Min.

In an exhausting battle arena, which is simultaneously heroic and banal - a man and a woman try to find a way to live with one another.

"It is an original and impressive duet. Noa Dar created a real master piece that revealed a crystallized choreographic vision" (Zvi Goren, "Habama")


5. Children's Games (2002)
Dar’s first work for children: "Children' Games" follows Pieter Brueghel's 16th century masterpiece – "Children' games" and focuses on the microcosms of the playground where children play with totality of being, as a preparation and a mirror to the grown-ups’ life.

Performed by 6 dancers and an actor. Music by: Bach, Sattie, Percell, Porat. Premiere: Childhood’s Sound Festival, Duration: 55 Min

"Noa Dar respects the young and teaches them with fun and lightness, what is a real culture."
(Micahl Sharon, "Ye’diot Acharonot").

6. In a black, black land (2003)
Performed by six dancers and an actress, Original Music: Uri Frost. Premiere: Israel festival, Duration: 65 Min.

This work deals with despair and nightmares of a society that lives in an ominous reality – a reality that brings forth the dreams of fear and horror from the unconscious
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“This is the best Israeli dance I’ve seen this year, and one of the best post-modern works I’ve ever seen”
(Gal Alster,”Time out – Tel Aviv”).


7. The Silent who is waiting for his turn (2010)
Poem: Sha’ul Tchernichovsky, Music re-composing: Aric Shapira, Singer: Renee Khoury, Dancer: Noa Dar, Premiere: Spirit Dance Festival, Duration: 15 Min.
"I believe” – Sha’ul Tchernichovsky's canonical poem, written in the late 19th century in Russia – expressed the poet's Social –humanistic and Zionistic wishes for a personal, social and national freedom. Current validity of the text is examined here by translating it from Hebrew to Arabic and changing the speaker’s identity from a Jewish man to a Palestinian woman.
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