Audio interview with Iris Erez | Iris Erez is an Israelian dancer and choreographer. After studying psychology and dance-therapy at University in Israel, she danced with Yasmeen Godder for many years. When she became a mother, this event did not stop her from working, but instead inspired and influenced her creative process. On the occasion of the B Motion Festival in Bassano del Grappa we saw her last work, entitled “First Body Many”, which was performed at the Museo Civico of Bassano. This remarkable work questions Gender, Identity, Motherhood and Femininity. The performance explores and investigates the contrast between clumsiness and grace, superfluous and essential, comic and dramatic, unawareness and awareness. It sounds like an invitation to clean our body and our mind from all the interferences that disturb our perceptions and separate us from ourselves. It sounds like a ticket to ride to a place of love and compassion. Here is our interview with her.
Interview and editing by Anna Trevisan
22 August, 2014
Operaestate Festival, B.Motion Danza 2014, Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa
FIRST BODY MANY
Coreography: Iris Erez
Dancers: Tamar Lamm Kedem, Sharon Zuckerman Weiser
Music: Karni Postel and Tom Darom, Sinead O’connor
Produced by: Machol Shalem
She is currently a writer, a blogger and a free-lance journalist. She graduated in philosophy in Venice, where she also worked with the Venice Biennale - D.M.T. (Dance Music Theatre), Art and Architecture for 7 years. From theatre, her first passion, she migrated towards the world of visual arts, writing reviews and critiques for almost fifteen years. After her master’s degree in Communication at Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper in Milan and, subsequently, her masters degree in Intercultural Studies at the University of Padua, she has continued to write for several different publications.
She is editor and contributor for Finnegans online and contributor for CULT-Web TV.
Her blog is: Multiculti. Just another day on earth.
She published:
Album Groggia (Curated by) Venice Council, 2010;
Interensemble. Il punto sui trent’anni (Curated by) CLEUP University Press, 2015;
“In viaggio verso dove” (in the antology: Tre d’amore, Tracciati Editore, 2014;
“La bicicletta” in the antology: Dammi Cinque, Tracciati Editore, 2017;
"Un treno nella storia. La Grande Guerra in Valsugana. Quattro storie", Ass. Culturale Platform Z, 2018.
22 August, 2014 Operaestate Festival, B.Motion Danza 2014, Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa FIRST BODY MANY Coreography: Iris Erez Dancers: Tamar Lamm Kedem, Sharon Zuckerman Weiser Music: Karni Postel and Tom Darom, Sinead O’connor Produced by: Machol Shalem
