Choreographer Netta Yerushalmy makes her evening-length debut with DEVOURING DEVOURING at La MaMa (photo by Yosi Yerushalmy)
La MaMa
Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East Fourth St., second floor, between Bowery & Second Ave.
December 13-16, 7:30, $20
212-475-7710
www.lamama.org
www.nettay.com
Born in South Carolina, dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has spent most of her life in Tel Aviv and New York City, where she now resides. Her works often feature performers from Israel and New York, incorporating movement from both locations that bring them together and reveal their differences. Yerushalmy, who is currently an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, will be presenting her first evening-length piece, Devouring Devouring, December 13-16 at La MaMa. Two years in the making, Devouring Devouring explores how viewers interpret and categorize the movement they see onstage. Much of the piece was created by the dancers communicating over the internet between Israel and New York, engaging in video conversations as the project took shape. The piece, which also includes Baroque iconography, will be performed by Joanna Kotze, Toni Melaas, Ofir Yudilevitch, and Stuart Singer — a group described by Yerushalmy as “extraordinary, wild, articulate, virtuosic, sensitive, subtle, and intelligent.” The international flavor continues with music and sound design by the bicoastal Mark degli Antoni, who was a cofounder of Soul Coughing and has scored films by William Wegman, Werner Herzog, and Wallace Shawn; set and lighting by the Brooklyn-based Lenore Doxsee, associate artistic director of Target Margin Theater; and costumes and special creations by Austin-based fabric artist Magdalena Jarkowiec, who made fluorescent hand-sewn penis dolls for anyone who donated thirty-five dollars or more to Yerushalmy’s Kickstarter campaign, which was needed to put the finishing touches on Devouring Devouring.