The Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv presents a double date, 12 and 13 August, with the new choreographic work by Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino entitled ‘The silent Caravan’.
The performance takes its cue from the ancient and ever-present idea of the ‘journey’, understood as a physical, real action, but also as a metaphor towards an elsewhere that is not always attainable.
If every life is metaphorically a journey, Kaiser and Antonino’s dance accompanies the spectator in a kind of exodus, where going towards a place or something becomes more meaningful than the destination itself.
Parallel to their choreographic research, the two dancers have been collaborating for years with various visual artists and photographers from all over Europe and the Middle East.
The works of the Israeli architect Dani Karavan, who passed away last year, have become ideal theatrical locations for this dance in the form of a journey. The square in Habima, the white square in Givataim, the monument commemorating the War of Independence in Beersheva are landscapes, stages generously offered to passers-by. Kaiser and Antonino have grasped their great scenic potential and inserted their dance into the geometries of which these places are built.
Playing on the name of the architect Karavan, “The silent Caravan” is a journey undertaken by the two choreographers into a metaphysical and theatrical world, in which landscape, nature and the dancing body merge, giving life to a series of images where time seems to stand still. Silent perspectives à la De Chirico, full of existential meaning.
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