Yael Ben Ezer

B Side

“The emptiness is sad and simple, like a long finger sent down the throat, like dust sinking down on the ruins” (Yael Ben Ezer)

“B side” is based on two short dance pieces by Yael Ben Ezer that were presented under the framework of “Batsheva Dancers Create”. During her residency at Orsolina28 Art Foundation, Ben Ezer will further develop and build on them to create a full-evening performance.

The “B side” is the other side, which aspires to flip its own paved stones to look beneath. It is made out of the materials of the here and now: news pages, tv studios, the families and the individuals within, war, peace and uprising.

It is also an aspiration for quiet, a quiet you could dip into like a bath: thick like honey, open like a dessert, delicate like birds.

Yael Ben Ezer

Yael Ben Ezer was born in 1995 in Tel Aviv. Yael studied at the Tel Aviv School of the Arts and graduated from Alon High School’s dance department. She participated in the Excellence Programs of both Batsheva Dance Company and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. During the summer of 2010 she participated in the “Dance is Culture” (Israel/Italy) project directed by Adi Salant and Mauro Astolfi. Yael joined Batsheva – the Young Ensemble in 2013 and Batsheva Dance Company in 2016.