Rachel Erdos (IL/GB)
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance serie # 22 "The Wall"
Leaving is not an option
A bordered-in dancer has to make peace with himself in his space - leaving is not an option. It is his territory and he inhabits it. Castle questions whether the walls make us prisoners in our own castle or protect us by blocking others out. Besides this work also examines how we cope with small spaces. In today’s society, space or the lack of it is a real issue, wars are fought over small pieces of land. How do our borders define us?
“Coming from Israel this is an issue very relevant to everyday life, we are defined and penned in by our borders more importantly we entrap both our neighbors and ourselves. The problem of small spaces is not only relevant in countries dealing with security and political issues as around the world we tend to live in overpopulated cities where the rent prices for tiny apartment are huge. Do we feel trapped or are we free?.”
A commission of the 2012 composer/choreographer project, The Teiva Centre for Music, Jaffo. Performed at the Summer Dance Festival 2014 (Tel Aviv), The Accidental Festival (London) and in Sofia Bulgaria.
"Grinberg moves within his defined space as one who is seeing an imaginary exit from his fortress which is closing in upon him. The movement, carefully measured and masculine, embodies a sense that this wonderful dancer is, in effect, a trapped bird whose wings are being endlessly bumped." - Zvi Goren, The stage