"Their lithe limbs and torsos flinched and flickered; they slithered and strutted. They were alluring and unhuman, sexy and weird. I was in the middle of ROSE, an immersive dance collaboration between record label Young and Sharon Eyal, an Israeli choreographer now based in France, who has become one of the most in-demand on the contemporary dance scene over the last decade."
"There is something intimidating about these dancers and their distorted bodies, gorgeously confident and coolly aloof; I wondered whether Eyal herself would be intimidating, too. She doesn't do a lot of interviews. But on video call from her home outside Paris she smiles. She's a little guarded, enigmatic, hard to get a handle on. Not the kind of artist who wants to explain her work (like Margot Fonteyn, who when once asked about something she'd performed, said: I told you when I danced it)."
Sharon Eyal stages immersive contemporary dance that fuses nightclubbing and catwalk aesthetics with elemental group movement. Performances feature androgynous dancers in skin-tight, skin-coloured lace whose lithe limbs and torsos flinch, flicker, slither and strut, creating an alluring, unhuman presence. The choreography originates in Eyal's own body and links tightly to dark, minimal, rave-influenced music. Notable works include ROSE, Killer Pig, OCD Love and Saaba, which have toured to UK venues. Eyal was born in Jerusalem in 1971, began lessons at four, and maintains a guarded, enigmatic public persona while rarely granting interviews.
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