60

COPRODUCTION

An hypnotic experience about time and its mysteries

60 is a unique collaboration between choreographer Amos Ben-Tal, his dancer-collective OFFprojects and dance-company ICK. Together they take the audience on a meditative journey that reflects on the social constructs and personal experience of time.

Through movement, sound, light and words, Ben-Tal and the dancers skilfully deconstruct the concept of time. Sixty minutes where one shares moments of stillness, pressure, hope and desire, exploring the structure of time and its mysteries.

Amos Ben-Tal’s dance collective OFFprojects is known for its multidisciplinary performances and exceptional performing-qualities. After several successful productions in smaller venues, amongst which Howl (winner Dioraphte Dance Prize 2016), the company is now creating their first performance for the big stage in an exciting collaboration with the dancers of ICK.

Since 2018 OFFprojects is artist-in-residence at ICK Amsterdam.

Credits

Concept: OFFprojects
Choreography, music, poetry: Amos Ben-Tal
Artistic advice: Yvan Dubreuil
Dancers: Milena Twiehaus, Genevieve Osborne, Aurélie Cayla, Luca Cacitti, Wolf Govaerts (OFFprojects) and Arad Inbar, Edward Lloyd, Sophia Dinkel, Maxine van Lishout, Hannah Kriesmair (ICK).
Production: OFFprojects in coproduction with ICK Amsterdam
Coproduction: Korzo producties, Julidans, CC Heidelberg
Thanks to: NDT
Funded by: Fonds Podiumkunsten
premiere: 02.07.2019 / Julidans, Amsterdam

Trailer

60 by Amos Ben-Tal - performance trailer from OFFprojects on Vimeo.

Press & Media

"In Amos Ben Tal's performance 60, the excellent dancers impress."
NRC

"Thoughtful and conceptual with a lot of craftsmanship. Apart from time, 60 is about man and his emotions; a composition of 9 bodies. Tasteful, multifaceted performance by a thinking dancer."
Theaterkrant.nl

"60 is just how modern dance is supposed to be, understandable, intense, exciting from beginning to end."
ilovetheater.com

Interview Amos Ben-Tal

Amos answering 'What's your fascination with time about?' from OFFprojects on Vimeo.

Amos answering ‘What’s your fascination with time about?’

Seconds - performance installation

Seconds - performance installation from OFFprojects on Vimeo.

This performance-installation of exactly 15 minutes invites a small group of twenty people to explore a choreography that occurs inside a small cube. Because only four people are allowed inside the cube at one time, a system is utilized where the audience on the outside of the cube determines how long the people inside can stay to watch. This creates an interplay between people’s personal desire to see the dancers and their realization that their experience must be communal. The idea of time as a shared resource is given tangible and intimate form.
The performance is set to a slowly developing text that explores cycles of hope and fear, acknowledging that both are a result of one’s awareness of the passing of time. The poem serves as both music and master-clock, reminding us of the subjectivity of our time experience as well as counting down the 15 minutes of the work in a precise and objective way.
The installation Seconds is part of the umbrella-project 60, where OFFprojects investigates the human concept of time and its many dualities and contradictions.

concept and choreography Amos Ben-Tal | design and artistic advice Yvan Dubreuil | performance Aurélie Cayla, Rubén Garcia Arabit, Luca Cacitti, Wolf Govaerts | special thanks to Xavier van Wersch

Seconds is a production of OFFprojects in coproduction with Korzo productions and ICK Amsterdam and was made possible thanks to Performing Arts Fund NL