Israeli choreographer and dancer sharon fridman premieres go figure In the program on April 26 MACA Live At the Dance Festival held in April until April 30 In the cities of Alicante, Elche and Murcia. It will take place at 18:30 at the Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art with free admission limited to capacity. This project is under construction work in progressHE thinking about functionally diverse bodiesit will also be staged at West of Rovereto’s Oriente Festival on September 4, before the final version premieres at the Francisco Rabal de Pinto Theater in Madrid on May 5 and at the Forlì (Italy) Ipercorpo Festival on May 27. (Italy).
go figure born in the context of a research and creation program The Power of Balance, introduced by Israeli dance company Vertigo. From the search for a space in which functional diversity and the otherness of the body express and reinforce its nature, the possibility of creating a duet between dancers arises. Shmuel Dvir Cohen and Tomer Navot. both sharing a neurological condition results in involuntary muscle contraction or dystonia. “In their work together, the focus is not on adapting to an alien, normative dynamic of movement and thus avoiding the obstacles presented by a dysfunctional situation, but rather the assumption and celebration of one’s own existence,” the company explains. The act is often unpredictable, almost always insolent and true as long as it is beautiful, true to itself”.
Accompanied by choreographer Sharon Fridman in this process, Winner of two Max Awards in 2015 and 2019, go figure It is structured as an invitation to learn the workings, rhythmic and movement patterns of other bodies through the INA Practice, a technique based on contact, improvisation and their relation to the physical and emotional sphere.
In the words of the choreographer, go figure First of all, it is a landscape of inequality, where “Shmuel can observe the workings of his body, recognize it, value what conditions and define his movement, transform it into a bridge towards connection with the other. Tomer comes to this call, the one who receives Shmuel’s invitation to dialogue and crosses the bridge. In the search for a balance arising from the limits that impose or reveal the capacities of both, a beauty emerges that wants to be nothing but itself. The will to support each other without being blurred, the shared desire to be the region of the truth”.
Company
Held in Madrid in 2006 By Israeli choreographer, Sharon Fridman uses the Contemporary Dance Ensemble technique. To contact As the basis of their own body language, called the INA Application. With this new language, Fridman begins a research process on contact and how it is represented to us. For this, he works in laboratories with professional dancers and students of public and private conservatories in Spain and other cities he visited during his international tour.
Many of Sharon Fridman’s works have received important awards and honorable mentions, such as Max for Best Show 2015. Free fall, Max 2019 for Best Choreography mistakeFirst Prize and Audience Award How far…? Awarded for Best Dance Show at the Burgos-New York 2011 Competition and the Huesca Theater and Dance Fair free fall (2014) and All Way (2017).
Numerous companies and groups have some of his most emblematic works in their repertoire. Since 2018, Sharon Fridman Company resides at the Francisco Rabal de Pinto Theatre, where projects with the community and their own creations have been run.
creations
Stand out among the latest creations dose of heavenit premiered at dFeria in March 2020, and its national tour in 2021 featured numerous stages and festivals such as: slaughterhouse Madrid, Dance Festival ValenciaFestival of Cádiz en Danza, Rosalía de Castro Theater in A Coruña, Barakaldo Theater, Victoria Eugenia Theater or Canal Theaters in Donosti, among others. It will premiere at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid in November 2022. Squeeze me_Life Continues. See the light in March 2023 Jerusalem A piece written by eleven dancers at the Bielefeld Theater in Germany about a historically blood-soaked place. Currently, Sharon Fridman is immersed in the show’s creative process. Go figure.
with stage manager luis luke will premiere EuropeIn May at the Naves del Español in Matadero and together New Galician DancePiece watercress To celebrate the Galician company’s twentieth anniversary with a premiere date scheduled for September.