Upon Reaching The Sun
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Il )
choreographer & director: Rami Be’er
‘Upon Reaching the Sun’ takes as its cue an excerpt from “Woyzeck,” the fragmentary play by 19th-century German writer Georg Büchner. The excerpt describes the imaginary journey of a lonely orphan girl, first to the moon, which she finds to be a mere stump of rotted wood, then to the sun, which turns out to be a wilted sunflower, on to the stars, which are nothing more than gilded insects, and finally her return — sad and disappointed — to earth.
“But don’t look for a story, because there isn’t one,” says Kibbutz artistic director and choreographer Rami Be’er. His goal has been to create a certain world on stage, a world that combines and gives comparable importance to movement, music, sets, costumes and lighting and to which each audience member is urged to attach his or her personal associations.
The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company started as an extension of the Regional Western Galilee Dance Group by Yehudit Arnon who founded and directed the company until 1996. Over the years, the KCDC developed into one of Israel’s prominent dance companies and has gained international renown. In performing the original creations of Artistic Director Rami Be’er, the KCDC acquired its exclusive and unique character, which has become its trademark both in Israel and abroad.
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choreographer & director: Rami Be’er
music: Sigur Ros, Saka, 310, H. Hilmarsson, Colleen, Massive Attack
text by: Georg Büchner (Woyzeck)
light design: Rami Be’er, Yossi Revach
costume design: Ma’or Tzabar
dancers: Renana Randy, Danny Eshel, Ilana Bellahsen, Artour Astman, Mika Webber, Amit Marsino, Eran Gisin, Nir Even Shoham, Sara Wilhelmsson, Yuko Harada, Efrat Hendler, Itzhak Amar, Moriel Debi, Daniel Ohn, Amit Gerera, Yarden Bloom
Duration : 70′
