Top Gun / Rite of Spring

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Top Gun


A solo creation, incorporating live text, in which the performer explores the relevance of modern dance and the essence of performance art, in her eyes and in the eyes of her audience, viewing the audience's demands as a consumer and art as a product while creating a dialogue about the value, so to speak, of culture.

Michal Herman, an independent artist, graduate of the Kibbutzim Collage.

Performs and creates for festivals in Israel and around the world and creates for Clipa Theater.

Awarded the "Minister of Science, Culture and Sport's prize" for young artists for the years 2003 and 2007.

Creator and performer: Michal Herman


Rite of Spring

An Adaptation by dancer and creator Hilel Cogan to the Rite of Spring, a milestone in the history of dance, readapted by countless choreographers since it's premier, with the choreography of the legendary Vaclav Nijinsky.

The original music by Igor Stravinsky, alongside quotes of choreographers and ghosts from the dance pantheon, draw the fine line on which Cogan walks to sacrifice himself as the victim for his ritual. The victim's conflict takes place between the mind and the hart, between the beast and the civilized man, between the loyal patriot and the traitor.

In a series of images based on performance clichés and with obedience to Stravinsky's music, a limited and fixed time exists, the spring, a time of an urgent opportunity to concur and exercise passions.

Creator and performer: Hilel Cogan

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Costumes and props: Hilel Cogan

Artistic advice: Irad Matzliach and Nava Zukerman

Created for Intima Dance Festival 2011, Tmuna Theater.