Batsheva Dance Company's Sadeh21 at BAM | Photo Stephanie Berger
Batsheva Dance Company’s “Sadeh21″ at BAM
To be a Batsheva dancer, “you have to disappear.” Those were Bobbi Smith’s instructions to a room of students on Friday morning, as she led us through a section of a 2007 work called Max. Smith, a stunning dancer about as capable of disappearing as an elephant carved from rubies,…
Batsheva Dancers Speak Out: Project 5
The Batsheva Dance Company’s male cast (Shachar Biniamini, Matan David, Doug Letheren, Ian Robinson, and Tom Weinberger) performing Project 5 is definitely something to see if you have not already had the pleasure and if you have, well, Project 5 is worth seeing again. During a recent engagement at the Joyce Theater, Batsheva showcased alternating casts—a female and male cast—performing Project 5: a collection of pieces of various put together—similar to Decadance (2007)—into an hour-long, enticing buffet of sights, sounds, and, of course, emotions.
