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We’ve teamed up with not-for-profit arts organisation Bold Tendencies and award-winning choreographer Sharon Eyal for a six-part series of unique performances in the Loading Bay at Selfridges London as part of Super Culture.

 

 

 

Famed for her fusion of classical dance and underground club culture, Sharon’s compelling choreography has been performed everywhere from Dior runway shows to experimental ballets and rock music videos. With her partner Gai Behar, Sharon founded L-E-V – an artistic dance company that combines movement, music, lighting, fashion and technology to create performances that are as much at home in a nightclub as they are at the opera house. “I believe that when you search into something very deeply, the subject doesn’t have to be something new – the approach has to be new. It’s how you present it and how you share it,” explains Sharon.

 

 

 

Read on to find out more about each event and book your tickets below. Please note, each ticket comprises two 45-minute performances with an interval, and 100% of the proceeds from each ticket will be donated to Bold Tendencies to help them fund future creative projects. 

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THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER

The loading bay, Selfridges London, at 8pm 

£22.40 

O C D

This sequence of iconic solos and duets takes inspiration from American poet Neil Hilborn’s profound work ‘OCD’. This intense performance is full of juxtapositions – Sharon Eyal describes it as “like the end of the world, without mercy. The smell of flowers, but very dark. Falling into a hole and not coming back. A lot of noise, but desperation for quiet.”  This work will be performed by L-E-V.  

 

Soul Chain

Experience the captivating marriage of ballet and electro with this energetic performance by 17 dancers. Here, Sharon’s sophisticated and challenging choreography presents a breathtaking ride through the strong emotions and intensities of love and longing.  

 

 

 

 

This is the first time this work will be performed in the UK. It will be performed by Tanzmainz, an award-winning contemporary dance company based in Germany directed by Honne Dohrmann, and long-standing commissioner of new work by Sharon Eyal.

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FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER

The loading bay, Selfridges London, at 8pm

£22.40

SARA

Sharon Eyal describes SARA as “a pearl in the treasure, a box of jewels that smells ancient with the feeling of the new. The box cannot be opened all the way...” This piece is also being performed by L-E-V for the first time in the UK.

 

 

 

The piece features music by The Knife – an electronic music duo from Gothenburg – and Ori Lichtik, Sharon Eyal’s long-term collaborator and multidisciplinary musician.

Killer Pig 

This work by Sharon Eyal is perhaps closest to her roots, a glimpse into the place where her work began, with minimalist expressions, intense honesty.and uncompromising physicality. Here, too, the musical collages of musician and long-time collaborator Ori Lichtik come together as an integral body of dance. Intense in feeling and execution, Sharon Eyal has said “Killer Pig feels like a gentle soul on the verge of collapse”. 

 

 

 

Killer Pig will be performed by the London-based dance company Rambert2.

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SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER

The loading bay, Selfridges London, at 8pm 

£22.40

Chapter 2

Exploring the aftermath of love, Sharon Eyal describes Love Chapter 2 as “a reason to cry” It is a desolate vision of breakage and submission to pain, presented as a moving expressive journey through choreography.

 

 

 

 

Love Chapter 2 will be performed by L-E-V, with music from Sharon Eyal’s long-term musical collaborator Ori Lichtik.

 

 

 

 

RAK MC LGD

Created in Peckham in 2019, during Sharon Eyal’s residency at Bold Tendencies, RAK MD LGD was developed with music by electronic musician and producer Koreless. It has a particular language that evolved in response to the raw concrete ribs of the car park building, the unique conditions of the time spent there, and the special feelings created in this unique location.

 

 

 

Both pieces are equally elegiac and enigmatic. Sharon Eyal has said that “the longer a unison lasts, the more time we must search for the differences”. Through these performances, she expresses her love for the uniqueness of the individual and the almighty powers of individuals moving together in a group, dancing in the dark. 

 

 

 

RAK MD LGD will be performed by L-E-V, with music by Koreless.

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Click below to find out more about our ongoing programme of events, films and installations, celebrating the most exciting ideas in the arts, both here online and in store. 

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