Make me feel like i want to put the theater entire thing with its june 2021. 30 degrees in the shade. Ive come to meet someone who is who weighs in lotion. Internationally acclaimed choreographer. Will fashion trash done . Hes currently working at the toyota house. Stuttgart, in germany, as artist in residence with coaches, Dance Company, i catch him on a quick break between with 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 kind of what it is like wobbly, uncomfortable. Yeah. You have to find am yeah, am starting of done space is, is complicated and kill taken. And i would normally try to start with whats happening now in my life. Whatever comes up to my head, anything, anything, its a bit like it starts like therapy and 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 fill of whats the 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 there, the tomatoes they, you know, are they onions and its all, its great when its good products. We always say for a good meal, you need a good product. But i appreciate that im, im kind of like leading the. Ready the kitchen, but for this thing to happen for dance was to happen. You need the great products here. Great dancers, you need to 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 willing to consist of emotion brimming with energy. I will have a fantasy about to watch the energy of the music without interference 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 and experiment an 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 to watch it is different. I can fall in love with something, and then really me sit and try to get the dancers to get there again. And maybe they never will because i cant feel it. Power percussion action checks that took them lessons at an early age, studied music, earned plate for a long time in a rock band to this day, his productions are driven by strong rhythms. When suddenly everything is collapsing and, and a lot of times i think this is when the groove is coming in, when the rhythm is where i just go like, lets just rides this wave and not think too much. And, you know, part of the work in the 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 get a sense of the, the atmosphere, the delays or the, the emotions that we are kind of dealing with them. 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, evernote, jeremy likes to love the cloud and the flower cloud. 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 with the 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 sola, 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 it 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 in it. So 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 Gutierrez Company for a long time. Its an honor to be guessed choreography. Here, so when i re came with the idea of more like just acknowledging the relationship that we have on 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 sense of fair working really hard, you know, kind of for a lot of investments from the dancers, from everybody in the same time the atmosphere is very light. Its very friendly, very casual in the casualness of a company in madness for you can find something quite human actually, and this is what interests me about dance. So i dont like when its to like her, you know that it has all the facade and the glamour and now got interested in that. A standard yourself. I wanted to look through ho fashion. Shesta 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, valley, 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. Busy ross sworn leg, but exactly, that is whats interesting for me, the conflict, the, me, 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 wanna break everything. You know, it makes me feel like i want to put the theater on fire. Contemporary donors as an act that blues away the old to make way that the new radicalism is part of who hello fresh. Chester is deeply in tune with a tight geist he permits different ideas of beauty. Diversity for me, is it the heart of what contemporary dances . The world of bella 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 is that it 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 reach and truthful and honest and revealing. We want to feel and believe that content for dance has a very open the truth. These contemporary dance is still sort of owned by the middle class, you know, and its owned by very why i told dns in order to open the doors and to you know, to, to make content pretense available for everybody. Not only as an art form to watch, but to participate. A lot has to be done. The doors have to be swine in a wide open. Since 2002 chairs the has lived in london and has frequently sold a house, major of them used their but he also takes his work to the city smallest ages and works with up and coming down says he wants to turn conventions on their head to open doors and do away with elite ism and exclusion for him. Thats true. Freedom act ah ah. One among the dances in stuttgart, our international performance, they had to my on 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 the hes not strict in no way. No you did wrong or no. This is not nice, but he finds a way to guide thus into these. But the same time he, he has the patients that we get that 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 for fin with your live, you how . Pretty, how. And then, despite the relaxed atmosphere at rehearsals, nothing escaped his gaze. Ah, chased as p st often reflect his own background in modern israeli dance is by him. But ive always been passionate about the israeli style of dance. Who fishes from israel, but lives in london is 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, often. So because its fast paced and energetically funds 20 minutes, if you for you, with the style could fit in anywhere good or bad personnel. Chest i was born in jerusalem in 1975. He learns 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 a very unpleasant experience just just as an individual and, and, you know, growing up in a country that in attempting really badly, but attempting to be a democracy. And then you go into the army, which is a must and theyre very different rules that they, 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 and shave our Dance Company. Is teaching it was oh, had naveen a legend of contemporary dance and a fellow with railey. The association had a big impact on shasta. 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 and working with my chair for 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 if lutheran has shaped Companies World wide. How fate in pieces sweep audience is away and also reflect a society in which they were crying talking. 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, so we kind of the strength of the ease readily and dance. You get the truth in the face. Dance often becomes political of the whole fashion shape stack. His pieces are also provocative for the promotion of passion for yeah. And also aggression. Just like in clowns. 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. With. And they use whatever means available to them to entertain the crowd in 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. Busy 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 run. Finally, it is a war that 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 the world. From being the solid place that we can trust became. We dont know what we can trust and 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 8 case in the contrast could hardly be greater between the calm, polite atmosphere, if rehearsal and harsh controlled chaos of chest, 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 the dark, and its stage dancers whos theme in a state of its lithium rapture, as if hypnotized. 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. Think we speak about the works that i have the darkness. Thats 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 like in our 1000 people watching a few people bringing the spirit up 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 kill article 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 give 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 i carries. If the primer we are an animal in my hand 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 then for ability of your color, turn this cover on the my list or size full 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 is 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. R to house, shoot god home. If the go to a Dance Company, the mood is highly focused, but relaxed at last shakes does re interpretation of swan lake is coming to the stage. Hes renamed the piece swan cake. Its less about the profound and more about the pleasure of nonsense. He composed the music himself, unless he does, for most of his choreography. 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. Like, how will the curtain cole be done and what seemed to pull soundtrack like confetti cannon. Yeah. Ward over there, feather lisa from the ceiling. Fans and tar, and feather olivia and then down. Yeah, that is so like surprising. The audience. Yeah. So basically yeah, like how it starts and this one lake is an unrecognizable version of tchaikovsky massey. Theres no white swan to be seen. The dances are in colorful casual gear. Instead of fairy tale bliss this palm. Instead of beams of purity and beauty, a crazy tru fills the stage. Instead of melodrama, best light hearted chaos. Its more like a wild party last thing, late into the night. Told a dance many times. It feels like its, its pulling down the steps and it goes another layer in 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 leaves you wanting more and the performance is certainly demanding for the dances as exhaustion and relief when its over. For the choreographer himself, its a chance with critical traction. My feeling is there. What can i seeks and what can i make better . Them so yeah, good moments about home and you know, i can see the things where it fulfills itself and where it really works nicely to places where maybe we can make it better. And im not just sitting and enjoying. And so it was very intense, but its funny because very intense work. In the same time. Stuttgart is very quiet, but there is a sweet memory with this, which memorial annoyed. So its, it was a healthy working hard. And then 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 desperate actions 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. You will have to think about that a little bit. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. With a, [000 00 00;00] with who a pulse with the beginning of the story that moves us and takes us along for the ride. Its all about the perspective. Culture information is either you news and you w me from mines e. Go africa. A promise of new jobs and well, a new pipeline across the uganda. Like environmental as a warning us about the consequences. Energy security versus nature conservation. Can this conflict ever be resolved . Our lives in did lag ego africa, 90 minutes on d, w. O. 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