Acting Our Age

Acting Our Age is an Israeli-UK co-production for an intergenerational cast of professional performers between the ages of 24-77 made in collaboration with choreographer, Galit Liss.

The piece has grown organically through ongoing conversations and a shared interest in the ageing body in performance. Acting Our Age explores performers’ relationship to dance and the stage at different points in their lives. Through the lens of the world of dance in which Liss & Flexer both operate, they examine the way in which age(ing) is experienced by the dancing body personally and socio-politically.

The work re-visits performers’ past works drawing on the body as a living archive, at once personal and collective. At times they question or refuse to ‘act their age’, while other moments celebrate the ageing body and its embodied sensitivity.

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Credits

Performers: Luke Birch, Sarah Dagan, Yael Flexer, Corrie McKenzie, Fiona Millward & Tirtza Shpanauff-Many (original cast Orit Gross)

Choreographers: Yael Flexer, Galit Liss

Composer: Karni Postel

Dramaturg: Nataly Zukerman

Creative Producer: Lou Rogers & Madeline Wilson

Photographer: Eli Passi

Commissioned by: South East Dance, The University of Chichester

Supported by: Arts Council England, Hull Dance, The Place Theatre, Galit Liss Company, Tzahalla Community Centre.

Presentations

2023 Dance Theatre Space, University of Chichester

2023 South East Dance, Brighton

2023 Hull Dance

2023 Kelim Choreography Centre, Bat Yam, Israel

2023 The Space, Nataf, Israel