Intimadance Festival Celebrates its 18th Year at the Tmu-na Theatre

Intimadance Festival 2018 is celebrating its 18th year, from the 27th to the 30th of June, at the Tmu-na Theater - and this year, alongside new and groundbreaking works of dance, there will also be performance works and the international premiere of the Austrian choreographer Doris Ulich. The festival, under the artistic direction of Anat Katz and Erez Ma'ayan, in consultation with Naava Zuckerman and Nitzan Cohen, will present the theme of Fracture - how we try to cope with today's reality, brittle, explosive, fragile and about to burst as it is. How can one respond to the overabundance of political, economic, and social events that cause us to burst into fragments?

The festival will go on for 4 days, and will include 13 dance premieres, as well as performance art, installations, video and new-media.

The Festival will open with the international premiere of Doris Ulich's Every Body Electric - a version for three participants. This performance explores the self-perception of physically challenged performers and the audience's perception of them, and examines the options that are generated with artificial extension of the body, such as wheelchairs, crutches and prosthetics.

Among the Israeli premieres are a creation by Orian Yachanan with the participation of Idit Herman, Art Director of the Klipa theater - about the breakdown in her life at the death of Idit's partner the late Dimitri Tolpanov, as well as a creative work by Shira Evyatar and Josette Vigan - an American tap-dancer who danced with the "Cirque de Soleil", dealing with the fragmenting gap between her international recognition throughout Europe and isolation and anonymity in Israel.

These works will be accompanied by creations of performance art that will continue throughout the Festival.

The tradition of a Students' Stage which began at last year's Festival will continue this year and provide a stage for young creative artists in unique cooperation with all of our dance institutes - The Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, The Seminar HaKibbutzim College, The Dancers' Training Course of Tel Aviv (previously Bikurei HaItim), the Ga'aton Dance Workshop, the Haifa Dance Workshop, and Re-Search.

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