VERTIGO & THE DIAMONDS
The Power of Human Love 17 March 2007 20:00
One of the foremost contemporary dance companies of Israel, Vertigo, offers a physical meeting place for artists and audience, while taking the viewer every time to a new or an unexpected, exciting and challenging journey through unfamiliar territories. The group is founded by Noa Wertheim and Adi Sha’al in 1992, who worked together in Bat-Sheva Ensemble and the Kibbutz Dance Workshop. Partners in life and dance, couple’s first professional collaboration, a short duet called Vertigo led the establishment of their company of the same name. The inspiration came from the first-hand experience Adi had with the sensation of vertigo during his years in training with the air force. Vertigo - the performance - was built upon the concept of spinning out of control, not just in the air, but in relationships as well. Sha'al remarks, "Noa and I created a piece which looks at the loss of direction - the dizziness - in the human duet.