We loved what we saw on Suzan Dellal’s stage, in the performance of the Kamea Dance Company: the setting of the school, boys and girls, teachers, accepted socially and less accepted, immature loves and moments of adolescent conflicts.
Actually, this is also what you see in the school corridors, in class and during breaks. But if you add to that the soundtrack of the Israeli songs that everyone knows, and build around it a dance show combined with minimal narration – you will get the successful show we watched.
The show very successfully describes the daily life of a group of students in the school arena. The students face youthful experiences ranging from competitiveness, friendships to first loves. Through the various characters, the work raises issues of mutual tolerance, acceptance of difference and true friendship. All this, at a pace that does not let up, which sweeps the viewers into the plot, and even onto the stage, and makes them part of the show.
Indeed, we especially liked the interactive section, where the dancers brought spectators up to the stage. We regretted that we sat in the last row of the hall, so they didn’t choose us to put on the stage as well, even though we would have certainly jumped into the show… Choreography: Tamir Ginz, Music: Collage – Junglesound Studios. Dramaturg: Idan Avisher, costumes: Limor Dror-Hershko, lighting: Shai Yehudai.