This creation is post the actual illness, after all had been lost already. It holds just enough to sustain us alive, dreaming in our blind body.
This creation is a reason to cry.
Love Chapter 2
is an extension of OCD Love, the 2016 work in which the choreographer and creator
of the Israeli dance company L-E-V, Sharon Eyal, and designer
Gai Behar presented love as an invading toxin, a disease of mutually
destructive submission and control. In Love Chapter 2 they explore the desolate
aftermath of love, a state in which the afflicted have been broken down into
helpless atoms of isolation, exhaustion and loss.
As with Love OCD, Chapter 2 is driven by the immersive techno score of Ori Lichtik. It opens to a
stark drumbeat – a brutal pulse that seems to be forcing its six dancers to
remain unwillingly alive. Staggered out across the stage, they appear to have
only a vestigial memory of being functional, their feet tracing tremulous
patterns on the floor, their arms feebly reaching into space, their torsos
swaying like reeds.
Creators: Sharon EYAL, Gai BEHAR
Music: Ori LICHTIK
Lightning: Alon COHEN
Costumes: Rebecca HYTTING, Gon BIRAN
Costumes Production: Odelia ARNOLD
