Goofy & Ani-Ma

Goofy

To the woman he said and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you. - Genesis 3:16

‘Goofy’ in Hebrew means MY body.

The piece, wants to raise a question mark on the meaning of this two words together, and check if we could really own our bodies.

In our modern reality, where people are often treating each other bodies with no compassion, it becomes even more relevant.

‘Goofy’, is an attempt of a body to realize the point it lost its innocence, and make the transition from an amorphous structure of bones and muscles, to a known image of a woman.

“Goofy” was premiered as part of Tel Aviv Dance Festival of Suzanne Dellal at August 2016.

Since then, the solo was invited to present at SIT theater (Las Palmas), 10sentidos

(Valencia), Tripspace (London), Unfolding Kafka festival (Bangkok), Dance days Chania (Greece), Garage21 (Greece), Safira Festival (Portugal), Aura Festival (Lithuania), as well as museums and theaters in Israel.

Choreography & Performance: Roni Chadash

Rehearsal manager: Dana Shoval

Music: Arvo Part, Nicolas Jaar, Chopin

Set: Adam Gorlizki

Duration: 17 minutes

Ani-Ma

 I try to shed what I’ve learned,

I try to forget the way I was taught to remember,

And scrape off the ink they painted my senses with,

Unpack my true emotions,

Unwrap myself to be me,

A human animal created by nature

Fernando Pessoa

“Ani-ma” was premiered as part of “Shades of Dance” Festival 2015, at Suzanne Della, and won the first prize of the competition,

This is the first solo creation of Chadash, which brought to her work a worldwide attention.

The solo was invited to perform around the world and got prestigious awards including the Best Performer award at Masdanza 2016.

Choreography & performance: Roni Chadash

Rehearsal manager: Dana Shoval

Music: Raime, Bohern & Der Club Of Gore

Set: Miki Patish, Guy Moses

Duration: 15 minutes 

Roni Chadash

Roni Chadash (27) was born and raised in Israel, were she received her education in dance; Roni started her path as a professional dancer at the Vertigo International Workshop (2011-2012) and later at the Gaaton Workshop for professional dancers (2012-2013).

After finishing her studies, Roni started working with several Israeli, as well as European choreographers including Maya Brinner, Odelya Kuperberg, Luis Marrafa, Sally Ann-Friedland and more.

Roni's stage & video works got international recognition and were invited to perform in many dance festivals and received prestigious awards; Best Performer (Masdanza 2016), Jury Prize (Shades in Dance Festival 2015), Best performer (Soloduo Festival 2016), Audience Prize (BCDC 2016), Audience Prize (FKM 2016), PARTS scholarship prize (BCDC 2016), Alexander Izralovski Prize (FKM 2016), 3rd Prize of the Jury (Mash 2016) and more.

Parallel to this Roni is also teaching contemporary dance classes, floor work and improvisation in Israel, as well as abroad.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Israel