PLATEAU (2019)
Direction & Choreography: Ben Green in collaboration with the performers
Original Cast: Hsin-Yi Hsiang, Nitzan Ressler, Ohad Mazor, Chiaki Horita, Amalia Smith, Rani Lebzelter
Lighting Design for excerpt performances: Yoav Barel
Original Premier: May 24, 2019 Habait Theatre, Jaffa, Israel
Running time: 50 minutes
Assistant/Dramaturgy: Roni Rahamim
Space & design: Ben Green
Special thanks and process photography & film: Myy Jeraffi
Additional performance photography: Ascaf
Produced & hosted by Habait Theatre Dance BA-Bait Series.
With the support from Batsheva Dance Company & The Michael Sela Fund for Cultivation of Young Artists at Batsheva.
Plateau: the state of little or no change after a period of high activity.
The piece takes inspiration from ritual, cleansing, and the cycle of life and death. An obscure space where relationships form between people and reality is turned upside down.
“I wanted to play with the idea that we are witnessing these people in the aftermath of a disastrous event. We are not sure if what we are seeing is current time or pieces of memories.”
