Cost Rica International
Arts Festival To
Showcase Latest Work By
Noa Dar
Merav Yudilovitch
Israeli dancer and
choreographer Noa Dar
has a new achievement to
add to her already
stellar resume. Dar’s
latest work, Arnica,
will be showcased this
coming October as part
of Costa Rica’s annual
International Arts
Festival.
The Costa Rica festival
will boast three
separate performances of
Arnica, which has
already debuted in
Israel last December.
This is the second time
that Dar and her dance
troupe have been invited
to perform in Central
America.
Dar’s dance company was
invited to perform at
San José, Cost Rica’s
capital city, during a
world tour in support of
their earlier work,
entitled Tetris, in
Santiago, Chile. This
work is a unique
collaboration with
visual artist Nati
Shamia Opher, examining
social patterns by
inspecting
audience-performer-space
relations.
Arnica, on the other
hand is a far more
densely introspective
work. Dar describes it
as a retrospective
observation of the
unique language she
forges through movement,
as well as an
examination of the often
violent clash between
each individual entity’s
inner world and their
external surroundings.
This unique performance
piece collects and
presents 17 short solos
created during the last
decade, and marks Dar’s
return to the stage
after an absence of nine
years.
Arnica is performed by
Noa Dar and two other
dancers that have worked
with her over the past
few years: Shira Rinot
and Michal Mualem.
Dar is also joined in
this performance, by
musician Uri Frost who
collaborated with Dar on
her earlier works: "In a
Dark, Dark Land” (Israel
Festival, 2003) and
Tetris (Acco Festival
for Alternative Theater,
2006).
Before departing for
Latin America, Dar’s
dance company will
perform Arnica for
Israeli audiences at the
Lab Center for
Performing Arts in
Jerusalem on march 5th,
and at the Noa Dar
Studio in Tel-Aviv on
March 7th. |
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