DASH05

DASH05 was an international, diverse and inter-disciplinary season of music, theatre, dance and visual art for London.

Presenting new work by contemporary Jewish artists from the Middle East, Europe, America and the UK, DASH05 offered a rare chance to experience the vitality and bold curiosity of a new generation, showcased at some of London’s most exciting venues. With 116 performances at 7 venues including the ICA, Scala and The Place, with artists such as Gogol Bordello, Ryan Craig and Yasmeen Godder involved. Overall, 9,256 people attended at least one of the Dash05 events and 162 performers were involved.

Check out the full programme of events below or see the brochure here.

VISUAL ART

ART: CONFLICTED
MENIER GALLERY | 28th Sept - 8th Oct 2005

AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURING THE WORK OF ELINOR CARUCCI, MIKI KRATSMAN, ROI KUPER, ALEX LEVAC, EFRAT SHVILY, SHARON YA’ARI AND RONA YEFMAN

Critical, intense and sensitive, twenty-six photographers present a complex picture of fragments of life in Israel. They expose religious, secular, traditional and contemporary communities with intimate portraits and political landscapes of conflict and upheaval. The range of work - from images of Russian immigrants to voyeuristic family portraits in Tel Aviv and images of Israeli-Palestinian boiling points - challenges the idea of Israel as a homogenous society.

Curated by Josephine Burton and Avi Pitchon.

Full list of artists here.

291 LIVE
291 GALLERY | 28th - 29th Oct 2005

TWO NIGHTS OF PERFORMANCE, FILM, CABARET, ART AND MUSIC LINKED BY INSTALLATIONS BY SIGALIT LANDAU AND NELLY AGASI

BEDFELLOWS
FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER
A one-off affair of experimental and contemporary film, video and music. Tackling Jewish issues in brave new ways, this is an opportunity to become familiar with the emerging trailblazers of moving image worldwide. Including work by Britain's Oreet Ashery, Adam Kossoff and Ruth Novaczek, Germany's Deborah Phillips, Holland's Keren Cytter, Israel's Joshua Simon and the US's Diane Nerwen.

THE RETURN
SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER
A cabaret of live music, art and performance curated by Wired Women and Chicks On Speed's Anat Ben-David. An irreverent blurring of high and low, art and entertainment, homage and parody, and re-appropriation that will sweep the 291 off its feet. Artists include the Spinster Sisters from Berlin and Marisa Carnesky from the UK.

SNAP
28th - 29th October
Performances: Friday - Saturday Doors 7.30pm Tickets: Free
A photography exhibition in the South Wing gallery by Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh students working with Dash photographers.

THEATRE

WHAT WE DID TO WEINSTEIN
THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY | 21st Sep - 12th Nov 2010

By Ryan Craig
Directed by Tim Supple
Designed by Simon Scullion
Lighting by Jackie Shemesh
Music by Lemez Lovaz & Yaniv Fridel, Matt Burgess, Pushpinder Chani, Josh Cohen, Leonard Fenton, Miranda Pleasence, Vineeta Rishi and Harry Towb

YOU THINK YOU GOT A CHOICE ABOUT THIS. YOU GOT NO CHOICE. YOU’RE JEWISH IN YOUR DNA. IT’S WRITTEN IN YOUR HAIR, IN YOUR EYES, IN YOUR SKIN, IN YOUR SOUL.

In the rubble of a West Bank town a British-Israeli soldier stares into the eyes of his Palestinian prisoner and faces a terrible choice. Josh’s past, rooted in Jewish London, and his present dilemma are at the heart of Ryan Craig’s urgent new play. Confronting the fault lines that divide generations, families, races and religions, this is a passionate and darkly funny account of a young life lived in conflict.

Ryan Craig has written plays for the National Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith. He is the Writer-In-Residence at BBC Radio Drama and is a founder member of the National Theatre’s Monsterist group of playwrights.

MUSIC

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS WITH LSO
SPECIAL GUEST IVA BITTOVA
LSO ST LUKES | TUES 13TH SEPTEMBER 2005

NEW YORK'S HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE RETURN TO LONDON. WITH THE CZECH VIRTUOSO PERFORMER IVA BITTOVA.

FEATURING MUSIC FROM TAN DUN AND LOU REED, THEY WILL ALSO PREMIERE THEIR NEW COMPOSITION ELIDA WHICH MIXES EASTERN EUROPEAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND FOLK TRADITIONS WITH HEART-BREAKING CZECH VOCAL MELODIES.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars’ previous performances at the Barbican, BBC Proms and the Royal Festival Hall have been sell- out successes. Now Dash05 brings them to London to perform in the city’s most exciting and intimate concert venue - an 18th Century Grade I listed Hawskmoor church.

Iva Bittova combines an extraordinary vocal range and virtuoso violin playing with a theatrical flair reminiscent of performance icons Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and Björk.

IVA BITTOVA VIOLIN AND VOCALS
DAVID COSSIN PERCUSSION
MARK STEWART ELECTRIC GUITAR
EVAN ZIPORYN CLARINETS
ROBERT BLACK BASS
LISA MOORE PIANO/KEYBOARDS
WENDY SUTTER CELLO

MOMO NIGHTS
MOMO’S KEMIA BAR | 31ST OCT - 21ST NOV 2005

MAURICE EL MEDIONI
MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER
The legendary 77 year old Algerian pianist is a unique phenomenon: a musical incarnation of a North Africa and a Middle East which exists beyond the confines of conflicting religion and nationality. A breakneck jazzy fusion effortlessly flows from his fingertips: Andalous, Rai, Cuban, Boogie Woogie, Klezmer and traditional French Chanson.

LES YEUX NOIRS
MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
Named after a Django Reinhardt tune, this 6-piece French band play a melding of Gipsy and Yiddish music, with a nod to Reinhardt himself. Their combination of traditional and original songs of travel, love, celebration and heart-rending lament are joyous and infectious.

YASMIN LEVY
MONDAY 21ST NOVEMBER
The 2005 BBC World Music Awards nominee performs her sensuous and haunting songs which revive Ladino – a 500 year old Judeo-Spanish music style - mixed with the sultry heat of flamenco.

BALKAN BEAT BOX
SCALA | 3RD NOVEMBER 2005

An electric circus of beats and live music from around the Mediterranean. Balkan Beat Box brings electronic sounds and samples mixed with wild live music from North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. It combines an international 8-piece house band with guest slots from over 15 UK and visiting musicians.

Surrounding the audience and using every inch of Scala the night will feature a live set from Oi Va Voi, London’s own bastard Balkan klezmer electro pop rock band. Also appearing are artists from the Bollywood Brass Band, London Bulgarian Choir, Fantazia, Victoria Hanna, belly dancers and DJs Max Reinhardt and Lemez Lovas.

GOGOL BORDELLO
ICA | 3RD DECEMBER 2005

‘ROUSING PUNK-MEETS-FOLK AT ONE OF THE BEST LIVE SHOWS YOU’LL SEE!’ TIME OUT

Drawing upon gipsy, Slavic and punk-rock traditions, Gogol Bordello bridges the gap between Eastern European, Gipsy and Old Jewish worlds with Western culture.

The band's lyrics spin darkly humorous tales of the immigrant experience alongside wild dance melodies. Gogol Bordello creates a uniquely infectious spectacle that offers up nothing short of a new, free-for-all theatre of anarchy.

DANCE

YASMEEN GODDER
THE PLACE | 15TH - 16TH NOVEMBER 2005

Two explosive dance performance's by Israel’s leading choreographer. Yasmeen Godder’s work is direct, bold and nuanced. She has already picked up a clutch of awards, including an American Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreography 2001.

“Provocative, detailed, original and direct… a powerful experience, a tour de force” Ha’ir on Two Playful Pink

STRAWBERRY CREAM & GUNPOWDER
10TH & 11TH NOVEMBER 2005
All-too-familiar images of war are turned into a cartoon-like dream. A powerfully realised performance which highlights the violence of everyday life.
Performed by the seven strong Bloody Bench Players with live music from Avi Belleli.

TWO PLAYFUL PINK
15TH & 16TH NOVEMBER 2005
A provocative duet in which the characters break free from social conventions, exposing their thoughts and moods through a physical language by turns mysterious, sensuous and humorous. Inspired by surreal imagery and Pop Art energy, Two Playful Pink is performed by Iris Erez and Yasmeen herself to a soundtrack that ranges from Ligeti to PJ Harvey.