BOLERO X - The Revolution Orchestra | Shahar Binyamini | The House Dance Company

Additional details about Shahar Binyamini’s new work: 30 dancers from the Be’er Sheva House Dance Company share the stage in a single evening, in a special, first-of-its-kind collaboration with composer Ariel Blumenthal. Together, they revisit three canonical works that changed the face of dance in the 20th century.

A dramatic and enthralling journey between contemporary dance and orchestral music, connecting iconic works with new interpretations in movement and sound. The performance is accompanied throughout by a rich, original orchestral score.

The music, recorded by the Revolution Orchestra under the direction of Roi Oppenheim, combines orchestral worlds, electronics, percussion instruments, and synthesizers—creating an immersive, precise, and powerful stage experience.

Part One: APRIL

Inspired by the dance work The Rite of Spring.

Shahar Binyamini has created a powerful work based on a renewed examination of questions of rhythm, the body, and the group, as they took shape during pivotal moments in the history of modern dance.

The work unfolds a ritualistic, timeless space in which the collective body coalesces into a single living entity, while the individual moves between merging and resistance. The movement shifts between inner impulse and collective action, creating a sensory, mystical experience of a ritual in the making.

An original orchestral score was composed for the work by Ariel Blumenthal and performed by the Revolution Orchestra. The music combines traditional acoustic instruments with electronic elements, guitars, percussion instruments, and synthesizers, creating a rich, complex, and surprising sound.

Performed by dancers from the House Dance Company.

Part Two: ARISE

Inspired by Afternoon of a Faun.

A work that reexamines ideas of space, image, and sensation as they developed at the beginning of the 20th century.

The choreography moves along a delicate, mystical, and sensual line between movement minimalism and physical eruption, between the individual and their surroundings, and between attraction and distance.

This is a timeless space in which the body appears as memory, longing, and impulse. In collaboration with composer Ariel Blumenthal, a new musical layer takes shape, engaging with familiar materials and offering them a contemporary interpretation in a rich orchestral arrangement presented as a recorded soundtrack.

Part Three: BOLERO X

A choreographic version of an iconic musical structure, based on the principles of repetition, accumulation, and gradual intensification.

This is a movement progression built around a single rhythm and an evolving pattern that continually changes its colors and intensity over time.

The choreography focuses on the tension between the individual and the group, between control and surrender, and between discipline and movement-driven desire.

Through repetition and precision, an enthralling, almost ritualistic physical experience is created, in which all the evening’s threads converge into a concentrated climax.

Photography: Avraham Askaf