Choreographer / Dramaturge / Performer
Sharon Zuckerman Weiser
Touring work - Shame on Zuckerman (2022), Adam & id (2018)
Sharon Zuckerman Weiser is a choreographer, dancer, dance dramaturg, and pedagogue exploring dance as a multifaceted subject from these different perspectives. She regards the performative event as a living moment of human exchange, and life as a durational performance in which we practice the individual and collective mechanism of being. Her practice gathers around the concept of the “human performer,” through which she explores performers as human entities, and humans as performative entities. In her works, the body takes the central focus, demonstrating skillful control of its expressiveness, while failing to hide its weaknesses and limitations.
Photo by Tamar Lamm
Photo by Michal Fattal
Photo by Michal Fattal
Photo by Tamar Lamm
Photo by Haim Yafim
Photo by Tamar Lamm
Photo by Tamar Lamm
One of Zuckerman Weiser’s core areas of exploration is the notion of “truth” on stage, and the permanent tension between the simultaneous reality and superficiality of the performative event. Her dance works draw from channels of potential influence on the human apparatus: aesthetics, text, movement, and materiality and serve as an intimate meeting place for the observer with themself. On stage, she brings together both professional dancers and untrained bodies, manifesting the beauty of these different proficiencies of awareness and training alongside one another.