- STAGE WORKS -
- STAGE WORKS -
- WHAT'S TO COME -
The work perceives the stage event as a scattered event. Manifested through a scenography of blackouts, the work creates an image-based experience that is broken in its linearity. By using the simple effect of blackouts the piece aims to create leaps which on the one hand provide contained scenes with sharp-edged endings, and on the other, open the possibility of entanglement between parts that are seemingly hermetic.
The work is inspired by the book “Eros the Bittersweet” by Anne Carson. Through her writing Carson exposes the identity of a desired/desiring body and reveals a time where Eros is functioning as a separate identity, and desire sometimes falls on the body like rain.
Tel aviv cast: Asaf Aharonson , Zohar Weiman Kelman , Yoav Admoni , Bar Alteras
Berlin Cast: Cécile Bally, Asaf Aharonson, Louise Trueheart , Yoav Admoni
Premiered at ״Curtain Up״ Festival Suzan Dalal Theatre in tel aviv-jaffa 2016.
Costumes by: Kim Teitelbaum
Produced with the support of the Israel Pais Culture committee.
Residency and a showing of work in progress - Dock 11, Berlin , Germany
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"The work "What’s to come" Is a celebration of madness
The performers leave behind in what appears to be a hurricane, remnants of memories seeking to say “it was is not a dream, it really happened”
Ruth Eshel , Haaretz Newspaper
"Asaf Aharonson's work "What’s to come" is built like a slideshow. Between the cat of darkness and light, the line is impulsive, quick, as if to register a moment in the consciousness that will soon disappear. Aharonson's light-headed head creates semi-abstract grotesque figures: surrealistic chamber scenes of human beings, with a recurring tendency to strange sexuality and disintegration combined with refinement and tenderness, Aharonson deconstructs the concept of appearance, both in the sense of the show and in the sense of revelation, to its components. The show is present in his absence, in a moment of silence, of relaxation, of rest. Leaving us all the time wondering what happened when we did not see. "What comes" is a sort of cruise on a cruise ship that will sink and drown, anticipating artistic moves and movements, a movement between turbulent waves of black humor and sensual pleasure."
Anat Zecharia , La Visiteuse
How to write about this work that is so light and fun, and at the same time complex and multi-layered; Of plastic art and of circus and theater on theater; And the dance that crosses them all
All the time the emotion, the humor, the vulnerability, the passion that does not get confused by the artistic games, from the picture that continues to be built and dismantled. vice versa; It rolls around in patches that pop up; A frisbee plate flying off the stage from nowhere, or another plate, perhaps from ice, that shatters to pieces. And all the fruit that is scattered, crashing, dripping and dripping with juice. as the show progresses the stage gets dirty but the dirt somehow do not get out of the lines. It's the most a-chaotic dirt I've ever seen on a stage. Epolithic dirt, with Dionysian touch.
Marit ben israel , Eir Haosher