Dust

- Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company(IL)

 

 

Choreography/Set/Soundtrack   

Inbal PINTO & Avshalom POLLAK

 

Assistant Choreography

Dina ZIV, Ella ROTHCHILD (development)

 

Lighting

Yoann TIVOLI

 

Illustration and Animation

Shimrit ELKANATI, Roni FAHIMA

 

Props

Roi Vaspi YANAI, Shlomi EIGER

 

Music

Ambrose and His Orchestra, Ann SHELTON, Beethoven, Circus Contaption, Hildur GUDNADOTTIR, New Orleans Street Musicians, Victor POPOV

 

Costume

Inbal PINTO, Avshalom POLLAK, Rosalind NOCTOR (assistant designer)

 

Dancer(s)

Jeremy ALBERGE, Ariel GELBART, Noga HARMELIN, Marta-Luiza JANKOWSKA, Cordelia LANGE, Amit MARSINO

 

Actor

Zvi FISHZON

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by the Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, this piece uses dance movement to demonstrate the constantly varying state of dust, symbolizing the ups and downs in life. Dust is a finely-ground substance that cannot be defined; it takes and loses form, it swirls, it rises to the air, it drops down to the ground and swirls again. Like dust, we all can lose our way, dissolve, connect and break apart, find each other and separate once more. Things formed of dust can be easily scattered, and then have to start all over again…

 

 

 

 

Since 1992 Pinto has been working with Pollak, with whom she founded The Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company. In 2011, Pinto and Pollak were given Israel's Ministry of Culture Award for Creation, for the works Toros and Rushes Plus. In 2003, they directed, choreographed and designed the opera Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck. In 2013, they directed, choreographed and designed the original musical The Cat That Lived A Million Times by Yoko Sano in Tokyo, Japan and the opera The Cunning Little Vixen by Leos Janacek in Bergen, Norway. Their creation Wallflower received the Israel Critics Circle award as the "Best Dance Show of 2014.”

 

Together, they have been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors - mainly the creation, direction, choreography and design of unique and award-winning dance performances for their company. Their productions have been presented and acclaimed in Israel as well as many other countries.

 

The Company consists of 12 dancer/actors working together. They are motivated by the collective wish to make connections among various artistic disciplines to convey new stage creations informed by memories, longings, ideas and imagination.

 

 

 

 

‘Virtuoso quality of dancers, along with wonderful illustrations. The creation Dust is an invitation to a re¬quiem for a fairy-tale world, poetic and sad. It is about life, the forces of nature, and hope.’ - Ha’aretz