Two Israeli participants in Akita International Dance Festival “Odoru, Akita”

The main program is the "Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial International Dance Selection", which will be held from October 27th (Friday) to October 29th at the Akita City Nigiwai Exchange Center AU Multipurpose Hall, and will feature two exciting works from Israel.

One is PALACE (Megan Doheny & Ilya Nikurov), an elegant nightmare world that unfolds with advanced dance skills, and the other is "FICTIONS" (Annabelle Dvir), a reminiscence ritual of the non-linear world that unfolds through the fantasies of pleasure and pain, consciousness and IDO, obedience and domination. 

"Odoru. Akita” 

「Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial International Dance Selection」

Date and time:

October 27th (Friday) 19:00~　Megan Doheny & Ilya Nikurov

October 29th (Sun) 15:00~　　Annabelle Dvir

Venue: Akita City Nigiwai Exchange Center AU Multipurpose Hall 

(1-4-1 Nakadori, Akita City, Akita Prefecture)

Price: Advance ticket for both days: 3,000 yen; On the day: 3,500 yen; Free for high school students and under

Inquiry: ``Odoru. Akita” office.

TEL.018-874-9037

info@odoru-akita.org

http://www.odoru-akita.org/

●Megan Doheny & Ilya Nikurov “PALACE”

”PALACE” by Megan Doheny and Ilya Nikurov is a glimpse into the world of an elegant nightmare. A surrealist-inspired take on partnership, the work uncovers a couple's relationship, slowly pulling back the layers of the external facade, and exposing a world filled with insecurity and doubt. Two emotional beings simultaneously intertwining and colliding, traveling deeper into the dark corners of their internal thought spaces. There, they encounter the places where difficult emotions are buried, where ghosts of the past inform reactions to the present, revealing a world they only want to run from.

Choreography & Performance: Megan Doheny & Ilya Nikurov

Megan Doheny (United States)

Megan Doheny (USA)

Born in the United States, Megan Doheny is a movement artist, choreographer, and co-director of the collaborative dance project, Outrun The Bear. From 2015- 2022, Megan worked as a dancer for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) where she performed the works of artistic director Rami Be’er throughout Israel, as well as international tours to more than 20 different countries. In 2021, she was awarded the Yair Shapira Prize for contributing to contemporary dance in Israel. As a choreographer, Megan has been collaborating with her partner, Ilya Nikurov, since 2015. From 2016-2020, they worked as resident choreographers for the International Dance Journey Program in Israel and created works for KCDC’s main company as a part of the Alternative Stage Platform. In 2021, they established Outrun The Bear, and have been invited to perform and screen their works in festivals throughout Europe, the United States, Mexico, Israel, South Korea, and Singapore.

Ilya Nikurov (Russia/lsrael)

Born in Kemerovo, Russia, Ilya Nikurov is a movement artist, choreographer, and co-director of the collaborative dance project, Outrun The Bear. From the age of 7, Ilya studied ballroom, modern,

jazz, and contemporary dance. From 2004-2008, he danced with the folk dance company Siberian Kaleidoscope, then relocated to Moscow where he worked as a dancer with Boroditsky Dennis Dance Company and with The Great Moscow Circus. In 2012 he participated in the performance, Kamera, by Belgian choreographer Ann Van den Broek. Ilya joined Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) in 2014 and received the Yair Shapira Award in 2018 for his contribution to contemporary dance in Israel. From 2016-2020, Ilya, together with his life partner and collaborator, Megan Doheny, worked as a resident choreographer for the International Dance Journey Program in Israel and created works for KCDC’s main company as a part of the Alternative Stage Platform.

●Annabell Dvir ”FICTIONS”

Welcome, again pleasure and pain, consciousness and id, submission and the illusion of control. Our ritual is a nonlinear time, reality, and reverie. Futuristic mythological chronologies reassemble the DNA chain encoded in us before. The act of hallucination deconstructs from our androgynous circus of powers, between the scream and ode, the woman and the beast; the witch arrives; and the demon survives. We are three women bodies in a paradox, on a journey with the knowledge and experience burned into our flesh, in the face of a new femme fantasy world.

“FICTIONS” premiered in the frame of the Curtain Up Festival, Israel 2021.

It was developed through the first collaboration between Quartier Am Hafen - Interdisciplinary Creative Art Center in Cologne, Germany, and Suzanne Dellal Centre Tel Aviv, Israel, with the support of The Office of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia of Economy, Science, Education, Youth and Culture in Israel, and the Yasmeen Godder Company’s Artist in Residence Program (2022). The work is also supported by The Israeli Choreographers Association and The School of Movement and Dance - The Ness Ziona Center for Culture & Recreation.

FICTIONS emanates from the ongoing physical-vocal practice, language, and technique developed in Annabelle Dvir's full-length stage work 7 INCH OF SLAM - THE FULL BODY SOUNDSCAPE, which upholds the tensions between perception and sensation, the embodiment of live sound and the visual shape of a live soundscape.

Choreography, Text, Vocal Composition & Soundtrack Design: Annabelle Dvir

Annabell Dvir (Israel)

Annabelle Dvir is an Israeli-Georgian choreographer, voice artist, live sound composer, and dance performer who researches live art with her developing ensemble WOMEN OF SOUNDS through tensions between sensation and perception, and the heard and the seen. She creates extreme physical[1]vocal practices and examines new aesthetics that merge reality and fantasy to transform human preconceptions, emotions, and inner desires. Working with a musical choreographic lens, her practice centers on the“performance body” as one of the visual, audial-sonic, and plastic frequencies, and her works have been presented nationally and abroad in North America and Europe.

Annabelle earned her MA and BA of Arts with Dean’s Honours from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and graduated from The KELIM Center’s Choreography Programme Bat-Yam IL. She received the Ministry of Culture Award in 2022 for her outstanding work within her first 10 years. Presently, Annabelle is a member of The Israeli Choreographers Association, and CAMPI - Jerusalem Dance and Performance Community.