A trilogy for two bodies and a plank by Ronnie Heller and Dganit Elyakim
“… in this first part of the trilogy, Heller moves with a plank, a slice of wood the width and hight of her shoulders. The story of the once growing tree can be perceived through the forms of it’s textures. In other words, this wood that was once alive and is now a passive object… As Heller moves with the plank thrusting it into the floor it voices a sound out of which Elyakim ventures to create the planks language and it doesn’t cease to speak. Thus is created a duet between a mute dancer, that controls and manipulates the plank, as it speaks its’ own word…”
“In the third chapter Heller returns to the plank, now used as a cello. She sits with opened legs as she drags the bow across it with an adagio like slowness to the sound of Mendelsson’s “song without words” as performed by cellist Jaquelean Du-pre. The bow is held by the hand, by the foot, by the mouth. If before it did not yield to metamorphose into anything other than a plain plank, now it is tamed, designed and domesticated into a musical instrument, producing sounds that are not his own. And here appears the most interesting element of the piece: the plank “rebels” and out of the music breaks free the same knocks still recalled from the first chapter, only with a stronger, resisting force….”
Ruth Eshel for Haaretz, Galery about “Keresh” @ Suzanne Dellal 2012
Chapter 1-Keresh
Chapter 2-Object Reltions, featuring: Nicolas Cascallar Marquis
Chapter 3 – Song without words