About
Upcoming shows:
Monday, 5.12, 12:30 & 14:15 | Jerusalem International Dance Week of Machol Shalem's Dance House
Created for public spaces, each performance is a unique variation that responds to a particular environment.
It takes place along the street and exists on the ground, at sidewalk altitude, a location that is normally visible only from the viewpoint of human feet and four-legged animals.
Dar and Samama bring their entire bodies into close, intense contact with the textures and topography of the surface we usually step on without giving it a second thought. From their leveled perspective, they challenge conventions and perceptions of the presence of the body in public spaces.
"These are two mature artists who are confident both in their talent and in the integrity of their inner world. Each is a distinguished, powerful artist and still, they let go of the ego to create something together that is alive and whole. ‘Land Slugs’ is bold, its images overwhelm the retina, sending themselves directly to the subconscious, aggressive and hypnotic”
Anat Zecharia, Hamevakeret, 6.10.2021
About 'Land Slugs' at Tel Aviv Museum Of Art
About 'Land Slugs' at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Partners
Created and Performed by: Noa dar and Michal Samama
Premier: 8.10.2021
Intimadance Festival, Tmu-na theater, Tel Aviv, Artistic Directors: Erez Maayan Shalev and Anat Katz
Press
Anat Zecharia – Hamevakeret
6.10.2021
"These are two mature artists who are confident both in their talent and in the integrity of their inner world. They almost always choose an expressive brutality involving extreme trials they undergo in which they ostensibly lose themselves, negate themselves. Each is a distinguished, powerful artist and still they let go of the ego to create something together that is alive and whole.
‘Land Slugs’ is bold, its images overwhelm the retina, sending themselves directly to the subconscious, aggressive, hypnotic, creating only one way to see them: a consumerist gaze devoid of logic, helpless.”
For the full review
Ran Brown – Haaretz
14.10.2021
"Not only was their commitment to the piece apparent in their bodies, but in all aspects of their execution as well, which was straightforward, direct and bold. Ostensibly, nothing happens in the piece apart from them advancing, but seeing it provokes thoughts about public space, the way it reflects us as a society, the indifference and apathy with which we treat each other, the place of women in this space, and the possibility that art affords to envision this space differently.”
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Idit Suslik – The Contemporary Eye
8.11.2021
"those moments in which, under the circumstances, they transform to resemble homeless people or eccentric characters whose behavior doesn’t align with the norm – raise thoughts about those who we tend to see in this way, and how easily we do so; those we usually step over, albeit not physically.”
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