Tami Leibovits’s new performance, Hardcore (Light Dance), is a turbulence of dance.
Three women dance steps that accumulate into repetitions of forms; forms of women wearing forms of women.
The performance examines the decomposition of the individual human body and a broader social structure into their elements, a decomposition that offers the power of transcendence towards a new state.
Through the performance, Leibovits offers a renewed observation of wonder from dance, at its beauty and the forces of life inherent in it.
The music for the performance, written by Guy Gutman, is a soundtrack of rhythms and beats that move the body and the stage events forward and beyond.
Tami Leibovits is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and costume designer. Her works, that situate the live body in areas between dance, performance, and Visual art, were featured on central stages in Israel and abroad, including: Curtain Up Festival, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), SVT Performance Conference, Im flieger (Vienna), MASH Dance Festival, L1danceFest (Budapest), New Dance at the Hazira (Jerusalem), Bat Yam Museum of Art, Room Dances Festival, Suzanne Dellal’s Video-Dance Festival, Loving Art. Making Art, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Leibovits graduated from the School of Visual Theater in 2007 and from the two-year choreography program at Kelim in 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate from the Kibbutzim College (2014).
In recent years, Leibovits has been developing works that leave the theater realm, stretch time conventions, and connect with specific communities and environments.
Leibovits has had a long-term collaboration with the artist Guy Gutman. Among the works they collaborated on are Non Troppo, or The School of Weathers, Oslo, and Oh Spirits. As a performer and dancer, Leibovits has collaborated with artists Iris Erez, Anat Danieli, Daniel Landau, Ariel Ephraim Ashbal, Anat Shamgar, Amos Hatz, and Gunilla Heilborn. Between 2007 and 2015, she was a member of the Performance Art Platform’s Ensemble 209, under the artistic direction of Tamar Raban. In 2021, Leibovits co-curated the March Hare Festival in Kelim with Anat Danieli.
In 2022, together with Moshe Shechter Avshalom, she served as artistic director of the Performance Art Platform’s Zaz festival. That same year, they founded the Performance Ensemble for teenagers, which participated in the large-scale performance exhibition Imagine a Museum (or: The Remembering Body) at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in early 2023.
Leibovits has been head of the two-year choreography program at Kelim since 2023.
Credits:
Choreography: Tami Leibovits
Dancers: Inbar Buchbinder, Shira Ben Uriel, Meshi Olinky
Music: Guy Gutman
Lights: Tamar Orr
Costumes: Rosi Cnaan
Rehearsal manager: Tal Adler Arieli
Photography: Asya Skorik
