The trilogy “Delight” is a choreographic mix of genres and styles, driven by the desire to focus again on dancing and in order to investigate lightness and pleasure as creative principles and choreographic drives. The dance project is inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights 1490–1510) which shows Adam and Eve in paradise together with the snake on the left while the right side of the triptych depicts a vision of hell. 

The representation of hedonistic life in the garden of Eden is omnipresent. Young girls are swimming in springs and fountains, dancing in nymph-like roundabouts, eating oversized berries or immersing in giant flowers. Through these it is evident that the middle ages concept of delight was one of earthly pleasures, eating, dancing in nude. Alas, what is delight in our day and age?

My choreographic approach is based on the combination of supposedly contradictory elements and a variety of styles and genres. Like the triptych, “Delight” consists of three main parts and smaller ‘chapters’. After “Delight, Part 1”, the first group show of the series, I presented the sub-chapters “Sub Miss Eve” and “Adam’s App Whole” Followed by “Delight, Part 2” premiered in November 2019 at the festival “Open Spaces” in Berlin And which will continue for the last part of the trilogy at the Tmuna Theater in Tel Aviv December 2020

 

Supported by- Kelim Choreography Center

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PERFORMANCE Asaf Aharonson, Tami Lebovits, Zohar Weiman Kelman , Louise Trueheart

 

Metal Workers: Ati aharonson and Yonatan aharonson 

 

Pictures taken by Yair Meyuhas