With its june 20 2130 degrees in the shade. Ive come to meet someone. He was here, ways in lotion, internationally acclaimed. Choreographer. Bull fashion trash done. Hes currently working at the theater house. Stuttgart in germany, as artist in residence with gutierrez Dance Company. I catch him on a quick break between rehearsals as an artist. He is difficult to pin down. I want to know more about his princess. How does he begin . What his steps in creating a choreography starting a dance business like sitting on the street with a leg wobbly uncomfortable. Yeah. You have to find am. Yeah, am starting a dance p cs is complicated and celtic and i would normally try to start with whats happening now in my life. Whatever comes up to my head, i see what keeps me busy. And then i kind of do the same with the world around me with a dancer, as i try to feel of whats energy in the room. And what bothers us or interest us. Im a choreographer. So i, im the chef in the kitchen. I lead the su sheriffs and you know, we get the material in the, the tomatoes, the, you know, are they onions and its all, its great to when its good products, we always say for a good meal, you need good product. But i appreciate the time. Im kind of like leading the. Ready the kitchen, but for this thing to happen for don supposed to happen, you need the great product to live great dance or as you need the great kitchen unit, great equipment in i recognize i cant just do it on my own justice. Work also towards the world winning major rewards. Hes a star among contemporary choreography. As his piece is a name for being wearing a pedestal of emotion brimming with energy. I will have a fantasy about to whats the energy of the music or the atmosphere of, of the music. You have a strong feeling of it. And once you start writing it down or telling it to someone its, its disappearing. Its up and the same, i will have the feeling of the music or the atmosphere of it, and i will Start Recording the music. And then the work starts. And i will experiment an experiment from experiment until the, until i find something that is like the, the heart of the thing. Its an incredibly subjective experience. Dance and its every moment the to watch. It is different. I can fall in love with something. And then really miss it and tried to get the dancers to get there again. And maybe they never will because i cant feel it. Power percussion action checks that i took from lessons at an early age, studied music earns played for a long time in a rock band to this day. His productions are driven by strong with him. When suddenly everything is collapsing and a lot of times i think this is when the groove is coming in, when the re them is where i just go like lets just rides this wave and not think too much. And, you know, part of the work and ambition of the work is to take people on a journey where they lose their faults, they lose their minds. Of course, we tell the audience kind of where we are, we, the audience gets a sense of the, the atmosphere, the delays or the, the emotion that we are kind of dealing with m, i hope is that it becomes a poetic experience. I disappear into it like a dream. One of his most successful pieces is it features typical shesta moments motif cease developed and uses again and again. Every north jeremy likes to love the cloud and the flower clown. Then were really heavy on. Its must, you can really get into a concert. Im for sets. Yeah. She really talks about being smoky. Like having the idea. Yeah. Now you are a smoke or you are a balloon or its a lot will be much a nation. So all the time we, we constantly, much in things is not your finger needs to be here or your leg needs to be there is so level, the much nation, the movement is quite do see if that word makes sense. Like theres a lot of texture and strong and viscosity as if for dancing through honey. And it kind of morse through the bodies of the body kind of is constantly changing and morphing and going out. And its a, its a way to find space in the body that maybe we havent found before. In stuttgart, whole session chesta is working with the renowned gaultier Dance Company. He is known and respected at courtiers company for a long time. Its an honor to be guessed, choreographer here. So when i re came with the idea to talk more like just acknowledging the relationship close, we have one ready m, which is a very fruitful one, you know, and i love the company. I love the spirit of the company and there is a san, so for working really hard, you know, kind of for a lot of investments from the dancers, from everybody in the same time of the atmosphere is very light. Its very friendly, very casual in the casualness. So for a company in atmosphere, you can find something quite human actually, and this is what interests me about dance. So i dont like when its too late. Can you know that it has all the facade and the glamour and now that interested in that carefully, just underneath yourself. I wanted to collect it. Oh, fresh chesta has already had work staged in stuttgart. Hes been math at 3 years as artist in residence. His 1st production with a goatee Dance Company is a re interpretation of swan lake. By the time rehearsals are over, barely anything will remain of the classic. The world famous ballet is given the typical shape, the treatment. The idea for the adaptation came from the Dance Company director who wanted the original ballet to spock something entirely unique. But when every kid spoke about it in the beginning, i was a bit like law sworn leg. But exactly that is whats interesting for me. The conflict, the, me for the story, the, the culture around the, to the culture around what, you know, ballets and beauties. And that just makes me feel like i want to break everything. You know, it makes me feel like i want to put the theater on fire. Contemporary donors as an act that boomers away the old to make way for the new. Radicalism is part of who, who fish. Chester is. Deeply in tune with the tight geist he promotes different ideas of beauty. Diversity for me, is it the heart of what contemporary dances . The world of ballad comes from a very particular culture, from a culture of high society, a royal court and song. So it, it carries a very racist attitude at hearts, you know, and we are descendants of classical bother we came from there. Were like the ugly sister, the point of contemporary dance aesthetic, diversify the perspective of how we look at things. And it is essential for contemporary dance to be diverse and it is what makes it interesting and it is what makes it to reach and truthful and honest and revealing. We want to feel and believe that can temper don says, very open the truth. These contemporary dance is still sort of owned by the middle class, you know, and its owned by a very white audience in order to open the doors and to, you know, to, to may come tempered tons available for everybody. Not only as an art form to watch, but to participate. A lot has to be done. The doors that have to be swine in a wide open. Since 2002. Chester has lived in london and has frequently sold a house. Major of them use their job program, but he also takes his work to the city smallest ages and works with up and coming down says he wants to attend conventions on may. I had to open doors and do away with elite ism and exclusion for him. Thats true freedom ah ah. Working among the dances in stuttgart, our international performance, they at my and his clear vision, his calmness and accuracy. Checks that doesnt think much have strict drills all the perfectionism of classical ballet. Its very clear of what he wants and hes not stricken away. No, you do it wrong or no, this is not nice, but he finds a way to guide thus into these. But at the same time he, he has the patients that we get it in the body. Something i find with her precious kind of a light heartedness in the studio. And that allows us all to explore and to try Different Things without judging ourselves too much. While at the same time, having very serious physicality. So theres a lot of challenge. Also, advice, gantski knows exactly what he wants from us, but he also gives us the freedom to find it ourselves. So, but so fin with your little how pretty, how. And then despite the relaxed atmosphere at rehearsals, nothing escaped, his gaze changed as p since often reflect his own background in modern israeli dance about him. But ive always been passionate about this really style of dance. Who fishes from israel a lives in london and his Movement Style and the music. He uses feature a lot of heavy and loud beats. Heavy bass that goes right to your stomach bow. You sit there and think, wow, homes are because its fast paced and energetically funds. 20 minutes of a for you with the style could fit in anywhere good or bad. Personal changed. I was born in jerusalem in 1975. He learned piano with a child and later studied ballet and modern dance. At the age of 18, he moved to tel aviv, where he was drafted into military service for 30 long months. It was a formative and borderline traumatic time for him. I certainly tried to forget my military service, it was very unpleasant experience just just as an individual and, and you know, growing up in a country that is in attempting really badly, but attempting to be a democracy. And then you go into the army, which is a must and then there are very different rules that its like a universe inside a universe. And that was really difficult mentally for me to, to accept even before finishing his military service changed, i had already become a member of the renowned achiever Dance Company. Is teaching it was oh, had naveen and legend of contemporary dance. Offended with railey. The association had a big impact on changed and its very strong, you know, in my identity or in my, i mean, its my history and you know, our history shapes us, you know, and, and my growing up in israel and the college traumas this sort of like overly politically obsessed environment that israelis is certainly a kind of marked me and working with ohio than working with whichever, which is obviously such a Strong Language such as a stronger choreographer. So its, its my family morton is rainy, dance with its powerful syntax, the flu, flint passed, shaped companies, world wide pal fate in pieces sweep, audiences away and also reflect a society in which they were created. I think there is a level of her directness thats what comes to mind that can have a positive size and pretty, pretty difficult sized top sites. Tough love and toughness. Ruth . So yeah, that directness i think is, is a kind of the strength of the ease readily and dance. You get the truth in the face down often becomes political of the whole fashion stack. His pieces out, well say provocative. Positive emotion, passion for. Yeah. And also aggression just like in crowns. Clowns. Her clowns is a it started like an experiment. And its a very simple and show where the performers are. Obviously there to entertain the crowd. And they use whatever means available to them to entertain the crowd. It easily dancing and tap dancing, fake tap, dancing, and theatrical killings. So it starts with some killings that are kind of like amusing. But it never stops. The theatrical killings become more and more choreographed and more and more, you know, kind of mass, a mass killings that are got crow graphically happening. So i think that the work is very starts entertaining and with a smile and can become quite satisfyingly. I think, disturbing. Crisis conflict. Whoa, whoa. Fetched as work reacts to political events, to the mood of the time. Of the united states. 201620. 17. For example. Saw terrorist attacks carried out my islamic militants around the world. Chester responded with the peace grand finale. Grunting. Only a war cuz thats, thats kind of responded to the energy, the apocalyptic energy in our world. There was a feeling that everything is collapsing, everything is coming to an end. Its like all the structures that we know. Everything that we trust is like falling apart of the world. From being the solid place that we can trust became. We dont know what we can trust in death is everywhere. Looking at everything collapsing and how does it feel . How does, for, from the inside what, whats the experience of people inside this is 8th case. In the contrast could hardly be greater between the calm, polite atmosphere. If rehearsals and the harsh controlled chaos of stretched his work on stage. But he also sees the rehearsal studio as a place to create genuine physical experiences. Something that plays an Important Role in his work is that darkened stage dancers, whose in a state of its lithium rapture, as if hypnotized. Ah, the darkness gives us a space like a surreal space. Again, its like a dream world. So the darkness helps focus the elements, you know, focused energy. You know, we start getting into some sort of a trance thing. If we speak about the works that i have, the darkness that the power for me, sometimes you can say there is a power in revealing the room. There is a power in saying, we are here now experiencing this. And its like in our 1000 people watching a few people, bringing the spirit up and, and you say, this is where we are now. Like having these 2 sides of the rainbow of the arch is what makes you feel all their world that exist between so that you know, the really chaotic peasy quick, you know, i love it when it gets complicated. Repetitive to and then you have the kind of the silence and the moments that gives you very little. I love it or positions i just, i love kind of arguing with myself again and again. Whole fish. Shasta seeks out animalistic movements in his dances. Okay. Is if the primal we are an animal in my head and were just is somehow have the ability to speak. Thats kind of amazing and the ability to plan, i enjoy exploring the body and the movement of the body to, to the complexity of it. So when you explore the complexity and the food ability of your color, youre in discover animalistic side. For shasta, the animalistic wet presents direct and continuous energy, pure physicality and unrestrained power thing. There is an openness. There is there. I dont know how to explain it. There is like the, the breath of oxygen sort of, that these very inspiring are almost like translucent, transparent, energy. After just 4 weeks of rehearsal, i meet whole fish down again on the day of the dress rehearsal. Im back at the t auto house. Sure. Got home if they go to a Dance Company. The mood is highly focused, clutch relaxed. At last shakes, does re interpretation of swan lake is coming to the stage. Hes renamed the piece swanner cake. Its less about the profound and more about the pleasure of nonsense. He composed the music himself. Yes, he does, for most of his choreography, you know, okay, hes having a last consultation with the companys director and i go to head youre hearing there are still a few details to be ironed out to like, how will the curtain cold be done and what seemed to pull soundtrack like confetti, cannon. Yeah. Ward over there. Feather lisa from the ceiling. Fans and the tar and feather riveted. Amanda and then don. Ah, yeah. That is so like the pricing, the audience. Yeah. So basically. Yeah. Like how it starts, and this one lake is an unrecognizable version of tchaikovsky. Massey theres no white one to be. Ah, the dam says are in california casual again. Instead of fairy tale bliss. This pump instead of themes, their purity and beauty. A crazy true fellows the stage instead of melodrama. Best light hearted, chaos. It more like a wild party. Lasting late into the night. Told the dancers many times and feels like it. Its falling down the steps and it goes another layer and another layer. There is no rules in a way to the piece its, its kind of exists in a bit of a cabaret, like worlds, you know, but, but that allows for everything to happen. And, and maybe its that sense of freedom that it just, it just wants to, it just wants to explode and do what it once may be a bit childish. Ah, swan cant. Maybe not a whole fish changed, a masterpiece that will be talked about forever. But definitely something that needs to be wanting more and the performance is certainly demanding before the downside. As exhaustion relief, when its over for the choreographer himself, its a chance for critical reflection. My feeling is there, what can i fix and what can i make better . Them so yeah, good moments about home and you know, i can see the things where it feels itself and where it really works nicely to places where maybe we can make it better and im not just sitting and enjoying it. So it was very intense, but its funny because very intense work in the same time stood guard is very the client paternity sweets, memory to this which memorial night. So its, it was a healthy working hard enough for me. Its very important that, that in series, creative and open and playful. And yeah, this is a how i want to spend my life. Oh, fresh as productions are full of emotional and physical power. Like the rest of his life, thereabout, motion and intensity. One last question for the choreographer. Which part of the body does he see as most underappreciated that bought some of the c we will have to think about that a little bit. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Oh. Oh, with Climate Change in the country underwater, bangladesh. 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