At the center of the work, an image of an animal is dismantled and rebuilt in a cycle of human structures that move between violence and comfort, between indifference to suffering and support.
In this work, Stav Struz constructs a ritual space that directs our gaze toward how we relate to ourselves and our surroundings. At the center of the work, an image of an animal is dismantled and rebuilt within a cycle of human structures that move between violence and comfort, between indifference to suffering and support. By expressing these states of power, the work allows reflection on the destruction inherent in human behavior toward animals and toward themselves. Each of the four dancers has a different dance background, and together they form the basis for a rich movement language that draws on elements of contemporary dance, urban dance, and folklore.
Stav Struz Boutrous (Jerusalem, 1990) is an independent choreographer and dancer combining folklore and contemporary dance. After graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance’s High School, she danced with the Batsheva Dance Company and the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company. Her work is influenced by the encounter between movement traditions from the Caucasus and the former Soviet Union and contemporary dance, and views the body as a living archive of cultural identity.
Struz Boutrous received the Yitzhak Navon Prize for the Preservation and Cultivation of Israeli Cultures, Budding Artists category — Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2022), Tel-Aviv municipality’s Rosenblum Prize for Promising Artists (2024), and the Bloom Prize, awarded as part of The Rose International Dance Prize at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, for her work Sepia (2025)
Credits:
Choreography, costume design, set and stage design – Stav Struz Boutrous
Dancers – creators: Alina Zhutovsky, Andrey Deutsch, Alexey Bussygin, Stav Struz Boutrous
Artistic advisor: Adi Boutrous
Lighting design: Ofer Laufer
Sound design: Adi Boutrous, Stav Struz Boutrous
Photos: Asya Skorik
The work was developed through Ifat Galinsky’s Nia+ House residency program and is supported by the MART Foundation, the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, and
the Ministry of Culture and Sport Foundation for Independent Creators.
