I stood in line at the post office. Around me, men. I was hungry and had a banana in my bag. I waited. I walked down a street crowded with bars. At one table, four men sat with beers at the end of their workday. One of them opened a bottle, and the cap fell right at my feet. I bent down slowly to pick it up. I rode my bike to teach a Pilates class. On the way, I was caught in an unexpected rain. When I arrived at my student’s home, I asked to borrow his wife’s clothes.
This work is an attempt to stay true to the everyday act—the slipping in and out of jeans—within the theater. With a subtle manipulation that heightens attention to detail. With the unfolding of a charged reservoir of images that rise and scatter. And with the looming threat of the shifting and hovering gaze. All the more! We seek the gaze, from within and without, for it holds the ability to cut free from the decree of the initial image, granting us the possibility to try on and perform different cuts.
Choreography: Gal Levinson Dancers: Dror Shoval, Guy Dolev, Rei cagan and Gal Levinson
Light design: Oded Komemi Credit: This work is a development of ‘With A Gaze And A Pair Of Jeans’ A thank you to Ido Feder for the invitation and for developing the work for the festival. Supported by rehearsal space from Yad Eliyahu Arts Center. Special thanks for the support of the work at different times: Mai Dotan, Daria Mayer and Studio Vayu
Gal Levinson born in 1991, is a dancer and creator in the fields of dance and performance, based in Tel Aviv. She holds a B.A. in Dance and Education from Seminar Hakibbutzim and an M.A. in Performing Arts & Visual Culture from a program at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. She trained as a dancer with the Vertigo Dance Training Program and studied in the La Collectiz! program, directed by Lilach Livne and Ido Feder. Her works have been presented at festivals and residency programs, including: Clipa Theater, The Khanut Theater, The Jerusalem Puppet Festival, Intimadance Festival, The Living Gallery in Jerusalem, La Térmica in Málaga, Espacio DT, Teatro Conde Duque, and Tights: Dance and Thought residency in collaboration with Batsheva Dance Company. She has performed for choreographers and artists such as Josefina Gorostiza, Nir Ben Gal and Liat Dror, Maayan Cohen Marciano, Dror Lieberman, Kazuyo Shinoiri, Lilach Penina Livne, Maayan Danoch, Daniel Shufra, Ido Feder, Adi Hellman, Oded Kommami, and Clipa Theater.
