The Speech / by Noa Zuk

This is the first long solo Noa creates for herself. The work uses movement material from previous pieces, put in a new context, as well as new ideas and materials. The work emerged out of a dialogue with Noa’s own past and its implications on her life today and on the unknown future, attempting to consolidate the times.

“I dance since I can remember. The feeling is that dance chose me and not the other way around, is still prominently present in my life. I investigate my own being in movement, in every moment, and by doing so I fulfill myself.
This work crystallized slowly, without pre-planning, after spending a long while in an elongated nothingness, in liquid time, lost in thoughts about an unknown future. Layers of familiar defenses were shed off during this period in my life. A wide range of feelings had surfaced, carrying with it new cravings and longings and a desire to go back to the elementary experience of meeting myself by myself.” (Noa Zuk)

"She is filled with movement inventions that are executed in contagious and stimulating quality - a sensual, undeniable groove that has become her trademark... Zuk is a captivating performer who takes us on a journey between many "self" possibilities, with an array of movement qualities and expression types which leave us free to create meaning from."

— Ran Brown, Haaretz, November 2021