WE LOVE ARABS
“We Love Arabs is a true masterpiece by all measures. I can’t think at the moment of a dance piece that is a switty, provocative, political and hilarious as that one.”
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What is your name? Not Muhammad? Mahmoud maybe? something similar? No? First, we will erase everything that implies that we are not equal. All the movements we make will be the same. It will symbolize our movement equality. What is movement equality? Let's look for ways in which movements complete each other in coexistence. We are both equally vulnerable and weak.
Now, so that we can recognize who is the Arab and who's the Jew, we will have to mark each other. You will mark me and I will mark you. We need to make something that shows that we are complementary, we need each other for joint action, a movement that will claim that we can't move without the other. But it should be abstract, non-narrative image. Something mundane. Maybe a knife and fork. We will mark our territory. It is important that the territory is common. We'll make contact.
Let's hold hands. The touch we create should be a touch that gives us pleasure. Let's hug.”
Hillel Kogan
Choreography: Hillel Kogan Dancers: Adi Boutrous Mourad Bouayad and Hillel Kogan
Artistic Advisors: Inbal Yaacobi and Rotem Tashach Music: Kazem Alsaher, W.A.Mozart
Lights Design: Amir Castro
Costume Design: Evelyn Terdiman
Premiered at the 2013 Intimadance events, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv.
SELECTED REVIEWS
22.4.2023 - Jeff Slayton, La Dance Chronicle
01.3.2018 - Catherine Makereel, Le Soir (fr)
20.9.2017 - Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde (fr)
12.9.2017 - Stéphane Capron, sceneweb.fr (fr)
15.7.2016 - Michèle Bigot, Madinin’art (fr)
20.7.2016 - Ève Beauvallet, Liberation (fr)
20.7.2016 - Fabienne Pascaud, Telerama (fr)
23.7.2016 - Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde (fr)
20.3.2015 - Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
17.5.2015 - Eva-Elisabeth Fischer, Suddeutsche.de (de)
3.8.2015 - Alexandra Kedves, Tages-Anzeiger (de)
2014 - Ora Brafman, tanz_jahrbuch
18.8.2013 - Ora Brafman, The Jerusalem Post
21.8.2013 - Tzvi Goren, Habama (he)
21.8.2013 - Anat Zecharia, Hamevakeret (he)
24.8.2013 - Ora Brafman, DanceTalk (he)