Dancing to strike at the heart. Sharon Eyal's Into the Hairy in national premiere at Spoleto Festival.

Spoleto, June 13, 2023 - There is Sharon Eyal among the big names in international dance scheduled for the 66th Festival dei Due Mondi. The Israeli choreographer and dancer arrives to Spoleto with her new creation Into the Hairy, premiering nationally from June 30 to July 2. On the stage of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti dances her company L-E-V (Hebrew for heart), one of the most curious and original groups of the new Israeli generation, founded with partner Gai Behar, with whom she also signs this show. As with every Sharon Eyal show, costumes are an integral part of the artistic creation, and in this case they are made from Maria Grazia Chiuri for Christian Dior Couture. Debuting is a collaboration with electronic musician and producer Koreless, among the most influential musicians and producers of the new generation. In a mix of contemporary, ambient, garage or trance, Koreless' music moves between dubstep and soulful electronica with a strongly recognizable identity that also sees consecration this year at Sónar in Barcelona.

Sharon Eyal trained with the Batsheva Dance Company and was the muse of choreographer Ohad Naharin-whom Spoleto audiences applauded in the formidable show Decadance in 2016-between 1990 and 2008 first as a dancer and then as an associate choreographer.

Into the Hairy 's unique style is the one that from always distinguishes the disruptive duo Eyal & Behar: movement, music and space intersect, dance breaks out of its conventional canons, classical fuses with underground club culture and contemporary dance is pushed far beyond its boundaries. A style that goes to the heart of each dancer's movement, "I don't want to see the choreography, I want to see the magic. I want to feel and I want people to feel what I intend to give them. As far as I am concerned mental form, physical commitment and dance technique are one. When you are exhausted, when your muscles are like on fire, emotion rises to the surface and it becomes impossible to pretend or construct a speech. You can only be in the present," says Sharon Eyal.

Marinella Guatterini writes in the hall notes, "Bowing was little in front of the skill of a group that did not indulge in the slightest smear; sure they had learned from the "Gaga" method, invented from Naharin, that suppleness of theirs, but the choreographic input had nothing more to to do with the grand master of Batsheva. The Eyal/Behar style is something else along with its Weltanschaaung so special from having wounded us to the... heart. Will it happen again?"