Celebration

Dance world premiere by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof (Israel)

Death is a MUST, a normal process in itself. Accepting this does not always seem easy or functional. It's one of those things with death. If life is not easy, death itself is certainly not. Death is a permanent fixture in life, a certainty that takes place whether we want it to or not. So why fight it? All of our deaths differ only in the question of HOW - how we go about it and experience it - whether we face death full of fear or whether we can await death, the great master, in serenity. Death is a reality, to believe that we can escape it is a brutal utopia, so why fear it and not prepare for it instead: celebrate death in life, rehearse it in life - being ready is everything! You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

"The goal of our career is death: it is before our eyes, whether we like it or not; if it frightens us, how is it possible to take a step forward without shuddering? The common man's way out is not to think about it. But from what animal stupor can such stubborn blindness come? It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us expect it everywhere. Contemplation of death is contemplation of freedom"

Michel de Montaigne

Memento mori! Take the chance: in order to die well and peacefully, we should reflect on living well and peacefully. In their choreography CELEBRATION , Israeli choreographers Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof deal with the heartbeat of death in life - but fortunately, life is nothing other than an ongoing dance of birth and death, the dance of one's own change and being. A true celebration?