RETRO
Sally Anne Retro consists of two works by Sally Anne Friedland - An adaptation of her iconic duet Dov Hoz 19, created in 1990 during the Gulf War in Tel Aviv; and Co-Void 19, a duet created during the global pandemic in 2020. Two different works created during periods of national trauma, days of closure, crisis, and war. Two works for two women, two points in time facing each other and the mirror of the 30-year interval between them.
Dov Hoz 19, Choreographed by Sally Anne Friedland with Inbal Pinto and originally performed by them, takes place on an old dining table brought from South Africa in Sally's living room at 19 Dov Hoz Street in Tel Aviv. Friedland rewrites this work for today’s reality, putting it alongside her new work, re-formulating her 30-year relationship to conflict.
REVIEWS
The two works in this program are connected and sustained by Friedland’s poignant and compassionate understanding of the movement and the emotional potential of the inner, domesticated world. In the contemporary era, this is a world we strongly seek to escape from.During the piece, two dancers use a wooden table as their plaything and something to which they ultimately surrender. They rest their bodies on its scarred surface, crawl beneath it and compete to sit around it, like soldiers chasing after and then occupying and seizing their target – but in this case the target is domestic. The furniture are the goal!
Minimalist in its human power and scenery, the aesthetics of the choreography and the lighting of this show produce beautiful vignettes and compositions of movement. Slow dance is used as an apt metaphor to experience the confinement in a space where nothing happens.
An exciting show with two traumatic points in time, one which we have experienced and one we are still experiencing."
A show with depth and interest, that highlights the similarities and differences in behavior in two different situations.
"This is a show, interwoven with beautiful images, poetic moments of silence and a clean stage, in which every object, movement, and occurrence has meaning.”