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Screen Saver by Rami Be'er

Back in October 2002 I conducted an interview with Rami Be'er, and thought I'd re-post it here and share it with you. Rami Be’er, the Kibbutz Dance Company’s choreographer and Artistic Director, is one of the most notable Israeli choreographers. He has developed his own concept of dance, making use of all the theatrical means at his disposal – movement, music, props, costumes and lighting – in order to convey an idea. In this interview, first published in Dance Today (9), we spoke, in particular, on the role of lighting in his dance Screen Saver. 

This paper, " Eroticism - Pornography for the Elite? A Close reading in Lea Anderson's The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketch Books of Egon Schiele (1998) I submitted in the conference "Interdisciplinary Landscapes: Postfeminist Practices in the Arts" hels in University College Northampton, UK in 16th-18th September, 2004.

The work of Rami Be’er, an Israeli choreographer working with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company since 1981, is analysed in order to establish the types of subject matters he has chosen and the ways in which has dealt with it. Be’er’s development as a choreographer is placed in the context of the development of contemporary dance in Israel, influenced both by immigration from Central Europe and by visits from North American companies. Both abstract and expressive influences can be identified in Be’er’s work, and the ways in which these different strategies function as processes of signification is discussed. 

To read the full article (in PDF format), click here.