Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar: 'This Is Not A Love Show'

Sharon Eyal (b. 1971, Jerusalem) danced with the Batsheva Dance Company between 1990 and 2008 and started choreographing within the framework of the company’s Batsheva Dancers Create project. Eyal served as Associate Artistic Director for Batsheva from 2003–04, and as a House Choreographer for the company from 2005–12. In 2005, she partnered with Gai Behar (b. 1977, Tel Aviv) – who shaped the Tel Aviv nightlife scene as party producer and curator of multidisciplinary art events from 1999–2005 – and Behar has collaborated on Eyal’s creations ever since. In 2013, Eyal and Behar launched their dance company L-E-V. Its repertoire consists of six creations that are co-produced with some of the leading dance venues around the globe.

The series of dance performances This Is Not A Love Show presented by LAS introduced Berlin audiences to highlights from Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s repertoire including the Berlin premieres of tanzmainz productions Soul Chain (2018 winner of German Theatre Prize Der Faust) and Promise as well as OCD Love made for L-E-V Dance Company. Each piece was adapted to be in dialogue with the industrialist architecture of former power station Kraftwerk Berlin, now known for hosting underground music and culture since the 1991 founding of the legendary nightclub Tresor adjacent to its premises.

During their two-month residency with LAS, Eyal and Behar developed a new striking choreography incorporating music collaborations. The series culminated in the world premiere of the new commission Wet, a site-specific creation featuring live performances in three acts by musicians CURL, Koreless and Ori Lichtik.

'For me a movement is never the same. The beauty is that even when it looks the same or you think it’s the same it never is. It’s always something else.'

– Sharon Eyal