5 & 6 May SAT & SUN, 8PM
SOTA Drama Theatre
1h, no intermission
$35*, $50 *Limited concessions available for students, NSFs and seniors
Limited student tickets at $10 Tote Board subsidy is applicable for this performance, please visit sifa.sg
Poetry in motion in Israeli dance company’s stirring study about love. D A N C E
There is definitely something compulsive about OCD Love, a dance inspired by a forlorn spoken word poem by Neil Hilborn about love lost due to the protagonist’s obsessive compulsive disorder. Primitive and visceral, stirring and stylistically abstract, Israeli dance company L-E-V’s creation is a powerful study about matters of the heart that is danced to relentless techno beats mixed live by musician and DJ Ori Lichtik.
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In a mesmerising hour fusing movement, music, lighting and technology, six bodies moving with technical precision orbit each other in a space, pulsating in between light and shadows, full of yearning yet always unable to connect. It is the dance embodiment of one person coming to bed while the other gets up, of something that is full and intact, but which has many holes in it. Dancer Sharon Eyal with long-time collaborator Gai Behar, both key figures in Israel’s thriving arts scene and co-founders of L-E-V with Lichtik, have created a contemporary piece about incomprehensible and pathological love — one whose lovers keep missing each other because they are constantly out-of-step, yet are chronically and incurably unable to break free from the other.
‘“Hugely striking. Full of startling originality” - EVENING STANDARD “The piece is intermittently powerful and certainly never boring” - THE TIMES “Gravely beautiful exploration of the obsessive-compulsive state” - THE GUARDIAN
Again and again, these paradoxes are personified by L-E-V’s dancers — in each suspension and fall of a torso, with each extension of sinuous arms, and on every arabesque. OCD Love is an irresistible visual treat that will grip contemporary dance lovers with its mysterious exploration of imperfect and obsessive love. Advisory (Some Mature Content)
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