The creation is about love, about love that always misses, or lovers who keep missing each other. Out of sync. Like one person comes to bed and the other gets up. Like something that is full and intact, but has many holes init. This work is about the holes.

 

"I see everything in the piece very dark, and in shadows, you and your shadow dancing. A lot of inspiration for the work comes from the text "OCD" by Neil Hilborn. This text is strong for me because I feel it reflects me so much. I couldn't stop reading it. For me it was already choreography, or a mold you can put your inspiration in, yourself in.

 

 

It is the first time that the core of the piece is shaped in my head, and so figurative, before we have even begun working. I know the way it feels and smells. Like the end of the world, without mercy.

 

A smell of flowers, but very dark. Like falling into a hole and not coming back. A lot of noise, but desperation for quiet. It's not coming from a place that I want to make something sad, but something that I need to take out of myself, like a dark stone I have in my chest" Sharon Eyal.

 

 

Choreographer Sharon Eyal
Sharon Eyal was born in Jerusalem. She danced with the Batsheva Dance Company between 1990- 2008 and started choreographing within the framework of the company’s Batsheva Dancers Create project. Eyal served as associate Artistic Director for Batsheva between 2003-2004, and as a House Choreographer for the company between 2005-2012.

 

During 2009 Eyal began creating pieces for other dance companies around the world: Killer Pig (2009) and Corps de Walk (2011) for Carte Blanche Dance of Norway; Too Beaucoup (2011) for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; Plafona (2012) for Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, Germany.

 

 

In 2013 Eyal launched L-E-V with her long-time collaborator Gai Behar.

Eyal received several awards: The Ministry of Culture Award for Young Dance Creators (2004).Eyal was named - Chosen Artist, by the Israeli Cultural Excellence Foundation (2008).The Landau Prize for the Performing Arts in the dance category (2009). The 12th Belgrade Dance Festival’s Jovan Ćirilov Award (2017).The prestigious Fedora Prize (2017) .The Professional Association of Dance & Theater Critiques at the Chaillot National.

 

Creator Gai Behar
AS a party producer, Gai was taking a big part of Tel Aviv nightlife scene as well as a curator of multidisciplinary art events from 1999 till 2005. Gai joined Sharon in co-creating Bertolina in 2005 and has collaborated on the creation of Sharon Eyal ever since.

 

 

L-E-V Dance Company
Since 2006, collaborators Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar have been a significant voice in the artistic community, creating a continuous stream of critically acclaimed original works for dance companies around the world. L-E-V is the culmination of years of momentum, choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, accompanied by the original music of Ori Lichtik, delivered by fiercely talented dancers that move with expressive precision.

 

L-E-V could be equally at home at a techno club or opera house. L-E-V is the confluence of movement, music, lighting, fashion, art and technology. Each uniquely expressive while emotionally entwined.

L-E-V embodies a pledge to move and engage a diverse spectrum of new audiences and collaborators. All culminating in the breaking ground of L-E-V in 2013.