In science, a free radical is an unstable molecule. Searching, attacking, altering structures. Ronit Ziv and Ran Ben Dror on stage around an imaginary atom. Two experienced bodies, two sharp presences, two movement languages. The encounter between them is built in real time, in front of the audience. Free Radicals investigates what hides beneath the surface: everyday gestures that conceal internal dissonance, the moment control dissolves, the place where one body begins to affect the other. The movement shifts between a subtle tremor and large, unpredictable motion. The transitions are sharp and fast.
Hierarchies between choreographer and performer, between man and woman, are examined in the act.
Nothing is fixed in advance.
Ronit Ziv is a choreographer and dancer, a lecturer in choreography in the MFA program at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theater at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the appearance of the nude body in Israeli dance.
She has been invited as a guest choreographer to Tulane University in New Orleans, Pomona College in California, and for a residency at AMPA in Sydney. She has presented her research at international conferences, including at the University of Munich (2025).
Her recent works address gender-based violence: As a Chicken, a video work featuring 40 dancers presented in the exhibition Local Testimony; and *One and One More* and 378.379.380, presented at the Suzanne Dellal Centre.
She served as co-artistic director of the Curtain Up Festival (2010–2013). Her articles have been published in *Dance Today* since 2010, and she is a member of its editorial board.
She is the recipient of the Rosenblum Award (2020) and the Arditi Prize (2021), among others.
Choreography: Ronit Ziv
Dancers: Ronit Ziv, Ran Ben Dror
Music: Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Force, Jean Sibelius, Philip Glass, Wham!
Costume Design: Ronit Ziv
