Life as seen by ‘Tennis’

There are days when it feels like one is being constantly bombarded with obstacles.

Be they tiny hurdles or large, there are days when even a simplest charge can turn a vital feat. Choreographer Nimrod Freed of Tami Dance Company sees these challenging days as a form of tennis match, one in that balls are hurled all over a justice and a actor can usually try to strike them all away. In his newest work, Tennis, Freed draws a together between a bland life of Israeli adults and tennis players.

This week, Freed will horde a initial of dual events in that he will benefaction opposite versions of Tennis, any of that will also embody a guest opening by another choreographer.

The initial eventuality will exaggerate Tennis, achieved by a challenging Noa Shavit. In her try to stay in balance, Shavit tirelessly and obsessively performs a array of movements, bringing herself to a indicate of complete exhaustion.

Her plight, that starts as a scarcely comedic try and transitions into a relatable and touching practice in futility, reflects a existence in that Freed sees a particular as being a plant of a broader, illegible system.

“The tennis diversion and a tennis player’s recurrent onslaught for a feat as a embellishment for a presence here and now: to attack/ to defend, to embrace/to part, to lose/to win: from a personal and insinuate to a amicable and political,” writes Freed of a solo.

Joining Shavit on a theatre of south Tel Aviv’s Tmuna Theater will be Anat Grigorio in a solo work Mr. Nice Guy. The juncture of these dual solos will make for an intriguing dusk of clever womanlike performance.

Grigorio premiered Mr. Nice Guy in 2013 and has achieved a square around a universe since.

Accompanied by a determined and mostly pestering masculine voice-over, a fur coat-clad Grigorio struts onto a theatre atop black stiletto heels.

In a indirect 45 minutes, Grigorio complies with and rebels opposite a voice. The square was her response to a many influences in her life, a requests of opposite choreographers to pierce this approach or that, a jeers and taunts of group in a travel to smile, as good as Grigorio’s middle monologue.

Freed’s second eventuality will take place in mid-February and will showcase a entirety of Tennis True Story. Built as an episodic creation, a full countenance of Tennis True Story connects 3 solos.

Performed by Noa Shavit, Asami Ida and Itzik Gabay. Each performer tells his or her possess story and finally, a 3 intertwine, trapped on a same court, forced to correlate with one another.

Joining them in a dusk will be Andrea Costanzo Martini’s SCARABEO, Angles and a Void. Premiered as partial of a 2016 Curtain Up Festival, this duet brings dual surprising characters to a stage. Martini and dancer Avidan Ben-Giat skitter about a theatre in an roughly cartoon-like way. Their bodies seem weak as they quiver, fall, tingle and pounce by a space. Their demoniac state runs a progression from humorous to unfortunate in this deeply cultured and heated work.

Nimrod Freed/Tami Dance Company will benefaction Tennis and Mr. Nice Guy on Jan 12 and Tennis True Story with SCARABEO, Angles and a Void on Feb 22.

Both performances will take place during Tmuna Theater. For some-more information, revisit www.tmu-na.org.il.