When Nir first aproached me he was intruiged by the way that I move - floreio art, acrobatics, equilibre, etc He wasnt sure how we can incorporate this into his work, but as a very instinctive and 'gut feeling' kind of person, he decided to give it a go. I was invited to participate in his new project and was to arrive to Berlin on a quite short notice.
I was also very much 'in the dark' not knowing to what kind of work I am going towards, what will be the creative process or if I am up to the task. I arrived in Berlin at the start of Nov, and we started working right away. I actualy went directly from the airport to the studio We arrived at the studio complex we were going to work at for the next month or so.
It was a very impressive studio, called EDEN, completely new, I think we were the first production to work there with excellent flooring, heated and a huge space. Some props and a prelimenary version of the final stage were already present and I got to meet the other artists. After a misfortunate lower back injury and after two weeks of work already, Ante had to drop out of the project.
I will not describe too much about the theme, because there is no one theme, and it is not a normal - nerrative theatre or dance piece. Nir likes to work with dirt. I mean glitches, twitches, jumps, interferance, white noise and unperfect presentations. His core belief is that reality is not perfect, so why should art be any different? Part of this is giving the audience some unresolved matters to deal with.
At first, this was very hard for me. I'm am a perfectionist in nature as everyone around me know, and this kind of thing was going against my initial insticts. But then Needless to say, this was a very productive experience. In many aspects. Besides some basic ideas, the whole piece was created by the four of us, in real time- in the studio. Real relationships mingled without visible limits with our 'stage relationships', a joke told outside the studio became another decoration on stage, misheps in the creation process were embraced into the piece.
