Embrace
Compagnie Affari-Esteri
Choreography By Shlomi Tuizer & Edmond Russo
Music By Oren Bloedow       Poems By Christina Clark

May 2 - 4, 2014

Fri & Sat – 10pm / Sun – 5:30pm

Two men face each other constrained in their search for different forms of identification. Poetic notions are employed, from a lovers’ narrative to duplicity, from a social body to a perceptive body, and of the other as witness, mirror, support, and companion. Two New York artists were invited into the process, poet Christina Clark and musician Oren Bloedow. This four-part composition questions the juxtaposition of these different languages creating a symbolic receptacle for disparate artistic voices, a choreographic journey of relation coming into being and a reflection on the existence of one through another.

Italian-born Edmond Russo and Israeli-born Shlomi Tuizer started their careers respectively in the Lyon Opera Ballet and the Batsheva Dance Company. Their journey began as performers for Hervé Robbe and Joanne Leighton. Creating pieces separately before co-founding Affari Esteri in 2004  their recent works have been presented by Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis; Festival Météores; Le Havre; Festival Faits d’Hiver; Chaillot National Theater; and the National Dance Center, Paris.

Part of DANSE: A French-American Festival Of Performance And Ideas