By Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof

Dancers: Carmel Ben Asher & Kelvin Vu

Costumes: Eri Nakamura

Lighting: Dani Fishof

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Premiered 2016

Commissioned by and performed at NBK, Berlin & CCA, Tel Aviv. Performed also in B.Motion, Bassano Del Grappa (2017); and Tectonics Festival, Glasgow (2018).

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Sparse and monochromatic, The Burnt Room is performed by two dancers accompanied by its two creators, who are also responsible for the live soundtrack. Some of the familiar traits of Zuk and Fishof’s previous work are easily noticeable here: the measured theatricality; the use of movement to create a world of ethnographic fiction, with fabricated rituals, invented languages and an affinity to the absurd; and the complex interrelations between what is seen and what is heard. They often employ choreographic algorithms which can be manifested in dance and sound simultaneously, and thus create a multidimensional choreographic tapestry of audial movement and visible sound.