American Playground and The Third Dance Performance, January 31-February 2, 2019 logo
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Time Commitment: 6:30pm-10:30pm (4 hours)

Friday, February 1, 2019
Time Commitment: 6:30pm-10pm (3.5 hours)

Saturday, February 2, 2019
Time Commitment: 6:30pm-10pm (3.5 hours)

@ 7 Stages Theatre, 1105 Euclid Ave, Atlanta, GA 30307

"American Playground," choreographed by Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor and performed by Core Dance, investigates multiple themes including ‘body as resistance’, personal authenticity and the dialogue between public and private spaces. Approximately one hour in length, the work is an active collaboration between the choreographers and the dancers, and is structured with a blend of pre-determined movement and improvised movement. The work evokes both humor and pathos, as the dancers explore the themes in partnership with one another and through the manipulation of props and costume pieces. Sheinfeld and Laor seek to coax complete authentic presence from the performers through the themes and formal structure, leaving a deeply-felt impact upon the audience.

The Third Dance

Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor return to the stage to explore intimacy, with a new adaptation to Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal’s The Third Dance (1990).
Six years after debuting their version of Dror and Ben-Gal’s Two Room Apart-ment – declared “Best Performance of the Year” by the Circle of Israeli Dance Critics (2013) – Sheinfeld and Laor meet for another creative collaboration on one stage.

The Third Dance touches on romanticism and its clichés: the music of Gustav Mahler, huge bouquet of flowers, and a record player. Underneath all of these re-verberates one seemingly simple request: “tell me that you love me.” At first ad-dressed to one another, at a certain point they direct the demand at the audience, expressing a persistent wish: to continue to be moved, overcome the mundanity of life, be relevant, and gain recognition – both one another’s and others’.

A couple in life and on stage, the two give us a thrilling opportunity to revisit a seminal dance text in the history of Israeli dance and look at it through the lens of the time that passed since their last duet: the changes in their bodies, in their re-lationship, in their perception of stage and space, and in their relation to the au-dience.

Volunteers are needed to usher each night, and to assist with the post-show reception on opening night (1/31 only). All volunteers get to watch the performance for free!

*Please be advised: "The Third Dance" contains brief nudity.

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In Support of Core Dance
For four decades, Core Dance has supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with global reach, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original dance that ignites the creative spirit and actively encourages participation and conversation with the community. In 1980, Core Dance was co-founded in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell.  Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base, creating a platform for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate, and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaborations, the humanity of the individual Dance Artists, and its rigorous physicality. (coredance.org)