Hila Nachshonov | The Miraculous Mandarin | Premiere
Duration: 20 min
The Miraculous Mandarin is a work for three dancers set to Béla Bartók’s orchestral composition, interpreted into a physical experience charged with urgency, repetition, and obsession.
Inspired by Bella Bartók’s powerful orchestral composition, the trio work The Miraculous Mandarin explores cycles of obsession, tension, and inner struggle. Built around repetitive circular and conical movement patterns, the choreography creates a sense of endless motion, as if the dancers are trapped inside a loop they cannot escape. Within this shared structure, each performer experiences their own journey.
The contrast between precise, rhythmical movement and the raw intensity of the music shapes a world suspended between control and collapse, resistance and surrender.
The Miraculous Mandarin transforms Bartók’s dramatic score into a physical experience charged with urgency, repetition, and emotional force.
Hila Nachshonov is a 25-year-old choreographer working across contemporary dance and hip-hop. A graduate of the Sadna Professional Dance Program at Ga’aton and Danit Bucksbaum’s RakDanit Dance Studio, she created three original pieces for Suzanne Dellal’s 1I2I3 program for emerging choreographers and received the “Outstanding Creator” award and a 2-month residency at Quartier Am Hafen in Cologne, Germany, for her Trio – an early version of the work presented here. Her other works include The Rite of Spring for Tmu-na Theater’s 2024 Intima-Dance Festival, and Maybe I’m Just Another, developed during her studies at Ga’aton. Her works have been presented at various festivals and events in Israel and Europe.
Credits:
Choreography: Hila Nachshonov
Dancers: Shira Glinka, Stav Azari, Hila Nachshonov
Original Cast: Mika Shenfeld
Music: The Miraculous Mandarin Béla Bartók
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez
Photos: Asya Skorik
The work was created as part of Suzanne Dellal’s 1I2I3 program for emerging choreographers, which is supported by the HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, and was further developed during a 2-month residency at Quartier Am Hafen, Cologne, Germany.
Eirad Ben Gal | Hunger | Premiere
Duration: 18 min
A dance work that was born from the harsh reality of the past three years and explores hunger: hunger of the body and hunger of the spirit – a hunger for change.
A choreographic work for four dancers, created in response to the harsh reality of the past three years. Feelings of helplessness, shame, and guilt led Ben Gal to engage with hunger: the physical hunger imposed on the hostages and the starvation in Gaza, which haunted him, and the spiritual hunger – our dryness, our thirst, our hunger for something else. A hunger for change.”
Eirad Ben Gal (b. 1993) is a dancer, choreographer, and creator of dance films who has been living and working in Sderot for the past nine years, where he co-directs the Sderot Adama Center. After graduating from the Movement and Choreography track at the Sapir Academic College, he danced for four years with the Adama Dance Company, under Liat Dror’s direction, and later began an independent career as a choreographer. His work, strongly influenced by Israeli reality, explores the connection between the political and the personal, and has been presented on stages and at festivals in Israel and abroad.
Credits:
Choreography and text: Eirad Ben Gal
Dancers/creators: Sahar Bashan, Gali Matis, Hila Pulvermacher, and Shira Fishel
Music: BFRND
Textual guidance: Odeya Rosenak
Photos: Asya Skorik
Special thanks to Liat Dror and the Sderot Adama Center for their support and guidance.
Tamir Golan | Inhibitions | Premiere
Duration: 12 min
Inhibitions brings two bodies together in a space of touch, resistance, and memory, where a shifting physical dialogue unfolds between tension and closeness, holding on and letting go.
Two bodies meet in a space shaped by touch, resistance, and memory.
Moving between tension and closeness, holding on and letting go, they create a physical dialogue that shifts and changes constantly
Inhibitions explores the desire to return to something that has passed, not to relive it, but to stay with it a little longer as it continues to live in the body.
Tamir Golan is an Israeli choreographer whose work is presented internationally. His creations include full-length and short-format works for stage and institutional settings. In 2024, he premiered Tomorrow’s Gone at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv and created Cellophane for the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. His works have been shown in festivals and venues across Europe and Israel, including MILANoLTRE, Holland Dance Festival, Danza in Rete, and HANGARTFEST, and toured internationally. Alongside his choreographic work, he has taken part in international competitions, residencies, and professional development programs.
Credits:
Choreography, Costume Design & Sound Design: Tamir Golan
Performed by: Gil Algrably, Tamir Golan
Mastering: Rotem Viner Tchaikovsky
Music: Boukyou – Hako Yamasaki, Coming Up Roses – Harry Styles
Photos: Asya Skorik
Special thanks to the Inbal Dance Company and Barak Marshall for their support of Inhibitions.
