"People use each other

To heal their pain. Each puts the other

On their existential wounds,

On the eye, on the nakedness, on the mouth, the open hand

They grab one another and will not let go."

(Yehuda Amichai)

"אֲנָשִׁים מִשְׁתַּמְּשִׁים זֶה בַּזֶּה
כְּמַרְפֵּא לִכְאֵבָם. אֶחָד אֶת הַשֵּׁנִי
שָׂמִים עַל הַפְּצָעִים הַקִּיּוּמִיִּים שֶׁלָּהֶם
עַל הָעַיִן, עַל הָעֶרְוָה, עַל הַפֶּה וְעַל הַיָּד הַפְּתוּחָה
תּוֹפְסִים זֶה אֶת זֶה וְלא רוֹצִים לְהָנִיחַ"
(יהודה עמיחי)

​​Choreography Olivia Court Mesa

Performance Inbar Buchbinder, Yuval Finkelstein, Gal Gorfung and Shahar Dolinski (Gilad Jerusalmy/original cast).

Music Roey Hazon

Dramaturgy Sahar Azimi

Lights Ofer Laufer

Artistic directors Dana Ruttenerg and Oded Graf

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​Premiere: 28/12/2020 Curtain Up Festival​​​​

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“With Pleasure by Olivia Court Mesa actually succeeds in touching the real. As a matter of fact the real, the material, the weightful body, is the one that is in the center. [...] The four dancers in her creation treats each other´s body as it were an object -they test, measure, weigh and use one another in a drama-free act. In other words, they perform estrangement of the body. 

The estrangement, as the literature investigator Victor Seklovsky claimed, returns things their aliveness. In this piece, through the estrangement, Court Mesa succeeds in bringing the body back its body quality [...] The actual danger sharpens the viewers´ awareness to the dancers´ real body and actually also to their own body, which cries in empathy at the view of possible impact. Thus Court Mesa sharpens the relationship between the dance and the viewers, through the body that we all share. This body, that we are all now witnessing its vulnerability, is not only a source for pain, danger or fear, but also for pleasure [...]”                                                                             

        Ran Brown, Haaretz Newspaper