挪用 Appropriation

Award-winning choreographer and master dancer Hillel Kogan returns to The Batsheva Ensemble, where he danced in 1995-96, now - as a choreographer. His works We Love Arabs (2013) and This Is Spain (2022) were crowned with great success in Israel and worldwide, positioning him as one of the most distinctive dancemakers in Israel. In his works, Kogan travels through various artistic worlds as a fascinated "tourist," exposing how art in general and the dancing body in particular serve as sites of political and cultural constructs.

In his ballet Appropriation, he tours the "dance company" institution, sending Batsheva Ensemble dancers on a voyage full of conquests, quotes, tributes, and spectacular references to many cultures near and far – open to appropriation, adornment, deletion, and erosion.

Kogan's ballet is a masquerade, where the lines of political correctness are crossed in the name of artistic and physical freedom - a carnival of body and flesh. The material (dancers' bodies) yields to the maker's hands and the viewer's eyes. The dancer's body is virtuosic, seductive, unattainable, elevated on stage, high above the masses, "sacred," and "cool."