Re.Imagined
“To be sure, a human being is a finite thing, and his freedom is restricted. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.”
(Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, translated by Ilse Lasch)
A collaboration between choreographer and dancer Naya Binghi and artist and illustrator Ayala Meidan brings together flamenco dance and a dynamic drawing performance executed in front of the audience. The two art forms are deconstructed and reassembled within this framework, expanding their familiar boundaries. The language of flamenco oscillates between the traditional and the contemporary, the classical and the personal, while drawing moves from the canvas to the stage, from the two-dimensionality of the painted image to the three-dimensionality of projection onto the dancing body.
This interdisciplinary encounter raises questions about the real and the imagined, as well as the degree of permanence in our perception of reality.
Naya was born in 1996. She danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company 2 and the Remangar Flamenco Company. Since 2019, she has been living between Spain and Israel, creating contemporary dance rooted in flamenco as a language for expressing struggles.
Ayala was born in 1996. She is an illustrator and multidisciplinary artist working across various mediums, drawing a line between the intimate and the political. Based in Tel Aviv, she holds a BA in Social Work from Tel Aviv University. She works as a freelance illustrator for children and adults with diverse bodies.
Together, through movement, body, line, and text, they seek to explore and reimagine their identities, the culture they were raised in, and the reality they share.
Re.Imagined
“To be sure, a human being is a finite thing, and his freedom is restricted. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.”
(Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, translated by Ilse Lasch)
A collaboration between choreographer and dancer Naya Binghi and artist and illustrator Ayala Meidan brings together flamenco dance and a dynamic drawing performance executed in front of the audience. The two art forms are deconstructed and reassembled within this framework, expanding their familiar boundaries. The language of flamenco oscillates between the traditional and the contemporary, the classical and the personal, while drawing moves from the canvas to the stage, from the two-dimensionality of the painted image to the three-dimensionality of projection onto the dancing body.
This interdisciplinary encounter raises questions about the real and the imagined, as well as the degree of permanence in our perception of reality.
CREDITS
Original Idea: Naya Binghi, Ayala Meidan
Choreography and Performance: Naya Binghi
Illustration: Ayala Meidan
Sound Design: Naya binghi
Sound Editing: Avshalom Miedan
Stage Manager: Shuli Zeiger
Music: La Pasión- Julio Vera, Alegrías Mínimas- Artomático, Estrella Morente – Tangos del Chavico, The Green Table – Fritz Cohen, Solo YC30 – Hadi Zeidan
Photo: Dan Ben Ari
Videography: Yakir Meir Perez, Asya Skorik
Video Editing: Boaz Aquino
Supported by the Rina Schenfeld Dance Theater and the Rabinovich Foundation, Tel Aviv.
