\u201cI don\u2019t let just anyone into my bedroom,\u201d says choreographer Rina Badash, yet in a sense, that is exactly what she does in \u201cRevealed Under the Cover\u201d an happening that will take place on Thursday, November 26, at the Tmuna Theatre in Tel Aviv. Badash invited filmmaker Miki Cohen to place a camera above her bed, documenting the body, space and events taking place there over time, the starting point for the creative process culminating in this artistic happening. Badash emphasizes that from her perspective it is an event, a happening, rather than a performance: \u201cI am inviting the audience into my home, welcome to my home. I greet them when they come in. There is no distance between the audience and the stage. I want them to be comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It is tempting to relate her work to the current trend of \u201creality\u201d shows, yet the almost year long artistic process and conceptual underpinnings of the work are, as Badash says, \u201cnothing like reality.\u201d For Badash, a dancer and choreographer who was the Dance Advisor for the Municipality of Tel Aviv and currently teaches in the Dance Department of the Kibbutz Seminar, the project began when she noticed that she was not sleeping well at night and decided to try to observe the process in order to uncover the reasons. She invited Cohen to put a camera in her bedroom, and they arrived at a joint decision to place a small camera, the kind used for undercover surveillance, above her bed.<\/p>\n
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Once the process of filming and research began, Badash realized that she had embarked on an adventure: \u201cTaking my bed as a starting point I had different images which we filmed and edited. From the beginning I saw a dance in this. There will be a dance, thank God. I hadn\u2019t choreographed anything in 9 years.\u201d The documentation of the bed, combined with the staged footage, is shown on four plasma screens interacting with dancer Shira Rosental and pianist Michael Ritzys. Ritzys improvises in response to what takes place onstage. Badash established certain anchors within the work, \u201cplaces he has to reach\u201d that create a framework for the improvisation. Says Badash, \u201cHe can decide to emphasize certain things or respond with a contrast. He responds from a male perspective, he is very much a man. I didn\u2019t try to guide him or make him follow my path.\u201d<\/p>\n
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