The Burnt Room

by Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof

The Burnt Room is a dance piece made for a room. The audience sit around the performance area, physically marking its borders. The work was commissioned by The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and Berlin’s n.b.k, and was premiered in November 2016.

Sparse and monochromatic, The Burnt Room is performed by two dancers, accompanied by its two creators, who are, among other things, responsible for the live, multi-channel soundtrack. Some of the familiar traits of Zuk and Fishof’s work are easily noticeable here: the measured theatricality; the use of movement to create a world of ethnographic fiction, with fabricated rituals, invented languages and an affinity to the absurd; and the complex interrelations between the seen and the heard.

The Burnt Room was performed in Scotland, Germany, Israel and Italy.

“An exquisite performance (…) with beautiful sound score of invented language, an old Greek melody and contemporary sounds (…) two excellent dancers, portraying mysterious characters, with amazing physicality, careful and exact…”

— Anna Bandettini, La Reoubblica, Italy