14 october 2023

show cancelled
ME ani (WHO AM I)
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - 2nd company /
Léa Bessoudo Greck

Saturday 14 october 2023, 8.45 PM
GORIZIA, “GIUSEPPE VERDI” CITY THEATRE

Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - 2nd company / Léa Bessoudo Greck

ME ani (WHO AM I)
show cancelled

National premiere


by Léa Bessoudo Greck
with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - 2nd company     
sound editing Eyal Dadon
art director Rami Be'er
distribution Live Arts Management
duration 55’

Who are we once all the definitions and external things are stripped away? Who Am I (‘Me Ani’ or אניME) is an introspective exploration of that idea. Movement is fundamental in the process of identity development since the very first moment of a human being.
Through movement, we can expand our thinking and explore the unknown. This new piece by Léa Bessoudo Greck gives access to both children and adults to reflect on this subject.

Founded in 1973 in Ga’aton (Western Galilee) by the Olocaust-survivor Yehudit Arnon, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) is one of the leading contemporary dance companies in the world. The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s Second Company (KCDC 2) was founded in 1994 with the intent to establish a fresh, new professional troupe to nurture the future dancers of the main company while exposing the younger and broader population to contemporary dance. Today KCDC 2 numbers 14 top dancers who perform internationally with a fresh and exciting repertoire.

interview

Me Ani (‘Who Am I’) moves from a question “who are we really once all the external definitions and things are stripped away?
With this work that will be presented for the first time in Italy during the Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival, what do you most want to convey/tell the audience?      

I want to invite the audience to feel. To feel free to feel emotions. The emotion felt reveals to everyone the steps of his memory construction : joys, fears, passions and disgusts.
Emotional memory is very intimate as a primitive protection. It is a universal subject.

Describe your creation in three words
“MORE than MEETS the EYE”.

Tell us why we should come and see it
Me Ani (‘Who Am I’) touches the subject of identity in different levels and gives access to both children and adults to reflect on it. It is a colorful dynamic work showcasing the beautiful KCDC 2 dancers.
It is a moment of communication and transmission. Come share with us this moment!

According to your personal experience, a border is
The border is a limit, either not to be crossed, or delimiting your territory of freedom; thus, it is both a constraint or protection in relation to otherness and, on the other hand, a free zone.
It can be physical and terrestrial, it can be social, it can be psychological and deserving of being surpassed. Driven by the irrepressible desire to conceptualize through movement and music, my mind will only have limits in respecting the integrity of the performing dancer; I am not afraid of value judgment, authentic art is beautifully free by its very nature.

As if you should explain it to a child: why have you started dancing?
Dance, movement  and creation are my passion. This is my way of expressing myself, like another language.

A piece of advice to a starting company
Work, determination, imagination and conceptualization. Physical and psychological endurance.

A project by:

In partnership with:
SNG Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Nova Gorica

With the support of:
Ministero della Cultura / Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia / Io sono FVG
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia

In collaboration with:
Comune di Gorizia / Comune di Cormons / Comune di Gradisca d’Isonzo / ERPAC / APT / Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG / Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg onlus Goriški Muzej / Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia Gorizia Kulturni Dom Gorica / Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž Palazzo del Cinema-Hiša Filma di Gorizia / PAN ADRIA network / TIARE Shopping

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