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After creating TETRIS, An interdisciplinary collaboration with visual artist Nati Shamia Opher, examined social patterns by inspecting audience-performer-space relations. Noa Dar concentrates in ARNICA on the internal private spaces and their relationships with the disturbing outside surroundings.
ARNICA collects and presents 17 short solos (1-4 min.) created during the last decade. Laying these solos side by side enables a retrospective observation which examines difference, contradiction and similarity between the inner world and its environment.
ARNICA is performed by Noa Dar and 2 dancers that have worked with her over the last years: Shira Rinot and Michal Mualem. To this performance, joins the musician Uri Frost who collaborated with Dar in her creations: "In a Dark, Dark Land” (Israel Festival, 2003) and TETRIS (Acco Festival for Alternative Theater, 2006).
The Solos that compose the evening are from Dar's works: "Achilles' Tendon" (commissioned by Curtain Up1999), "Strange" (Commissioned by Curtain Up 2000), "Water Music" (Commissioned by the Kibutzim Chamber Orchestra 2006) and "Arnica" (commissioned by the Israel Festival, Jerusalem, 2007)
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By Noa Dar
Premiere: November 28-29, 2007 – Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv.
Dancers: Michal Mualem, Shira Rinot, Noa Dar
Guest Artist: Uri Frost - Electric Guitar
Music by: H. Purcell, F. Handel, Tom Waits, Eleni Karaindrou.
Lighting Designer: Asi Gotesman
Costumes: Diza Avidan
Photography: Tamar Lam
Graphic Designer: Dorit Talpaz
Production: Hila Gamili Kaplan – Noa Dar Dance Group
Duration: 55 Min.
Supported by the Israeli Lottery Council for the Arts
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"Arnica by Noa Dar becomes a fascinating touching dance evening, which succeeds to make these series of solo excerpts into a full complex, multi-layers creation that deeply touches the routes of dance and at the essence of the dancers' art, who flourish in this performance like the Arnica flower that produces the healing miracle remedy for their wounds. Thus, "Arnica" turned from being an individual private creation, to a performance that heals the spectator who yearns for his personal dance experience." (Zvi Goren, Habama online. Dec. 07)
"Arnica excelled with an enchanting body language, beautiful performance execution and thrilling music. There is pleasantness in the dancing of the 3 dancers, in the differences between them, in the straight forwardness they relate to the music and space. It is impossible to lay a hand on what the three dancers bring from them selves to the stage, from the strength of their beauty and the frankness of their rich dance language." (Gabi Aldor, "City Mouse Online", Dec. 2007)
"Arnica, Noa Dar's new creation, is a chain of beautiful solo dances that possessed refinement and artistic maturity. It is a deep dance of dancers with a life experience. Each solo is built thoroughly and it is possible to follow the clever moves in the development of the movement's scale. The performance execution arouses pleasure. The 3 dancers, including Dar herself, possess a high quality technique. Dar, which was absent from stage for a few years, kept her ability and was renewed." (Ruth Eshel, "Ha'aretz", Dec. 12, 2007).
"Although she hasn't been on stage for years, Dar seems to be in excellent shape. She managed to portray her idiosyncratic language with great charm. Michal Mualem and Shira Rinott - fine dancers in their own right - contributed their own colors as interpreters of Dar's lexicon. Arnica is meticulously choreographed and Dar was empowered, funny, devilishly daring and totally contemporary." (Ora Brafman, "Jerusalem Post" , March 12, 2008)
“Arnica” is a performance full of drama: in its facial expressions, in movement, in the dynamic between the participants. In the end, you exit with a sensation of catharsis and a feeling of spiritual elevation”.
(Mart Parhomovski, “Yediot TLV”, March 08)
"I already forgot how exciting a dive to a dance performance can be, it uproots the verbal dialogs and gives the stage to the body and the music to not only flirt with us, the spectators, but also to compel us to ask questions and to check for answers. It is possible to open a window to our souls and to touch places that stayed locked up most of the time, an enchanting performance!" (Hani Davidor, "1909" Website, Dec. 2007).
Arnica on YouTube: Clip 1
Arnica on YouTube: Clip 2
Jerusalem Post on Arnica (December 08)
Arnica in Costa Rica