Screensaver 2004
Screensaver by Rami
Be’er
Premiered October 22nd
Other performances Oct. 28th, Oct. 31st, Nov. 7th, Nov. 12th and Nov. 21st
Choreographer Rami Be’er
Music L. Gerrard, T. Rezor, A. Scarlati, P. Bourke, C. Mansell, nafnlaus (Ítalía 17.
öld), Sondheim
Sound design Alex Claude
Video Irit Batsry
Lighting, stage and video screening design Rami Be’er
Costume design Laura Dinulescu
Dancers
Emilía Benedikta Gísladóttir, Guðmundur Elías Knudsen, Guðrún Óskarsdóttir, Hjördís Lilja
Örnólfsdóttir, Jóhann F. Björgvinsson, Katrín Ingvadóttir, Katrín Á. Johnson, María Lovísa
Ámundadóttir, Nadia K. Banine, Peter Anderson, Philip Bergmann, Steve Lorenz, Unnur E.
Gunnarsdóttir and Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir.
Be’er on Screensaver:
“ We all need a shield from the world chaos . In order to protect ourselves we
activate, consciously or unconsciously, our own personal “screensaver””
Rami Be’er is born and raised in Kibbutz Gaaton in north of Israel, where Yehudit Arnon founded Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) in 1970. He started his dance education at an early age under her guidance. Be’er became a dancer and a choreographer with KCDC in 1980 and took over the company’s artistic direction in 1996. He has choreographed over 40 works for the company, many of them internationally acclaimed. Critics have called him “a magician of the stage arts” because of the enchanting visual world he creates on the stage.
From Screensaver:
To everything there is a season
and time for every purpose
under Heaven
Time to weep, Time to laugh
Time to mourn, Time to dance
Time to get, Time to lose
Time to embrace
Time to restrain from embrace
Time to cast away stones
Time to gather stones together
Time for War
Time for Peace
Ecclesiastes
