PRESET
2025
PRESET is a dance piece for five dancers exploring trauma as a form of death – an unbearable pain that pierces us from within, destroying and erasing who we once were.
- Choreography
- Itai Meir
- Co-creators and performers
- Roni Faigler, Nitzan Nisimov, Keshet Ben Naim, Itai Meir, Maya Kahanov
- Soundtrack and original music
- Noya Kale
- Set design
- Shimon Ben Naim
- Costume design
- Omer Dushi and Itai Meir
- Lighting design
- Chris
- Video and photography
- Michael Shenhav
About
From the depths of the abyss and the ashes left inside us, an unfamiliar version of ourselves begins to emerge. The loss of identity becomes a distant, blurred memory. Yet the show must go on. We dance our way through the wreckage, asking: who will we become in our next incarnation?
Inspired by rock culture, PRESET embraces high energy, celebrating our wounds, our strangeness, and the parts of ourselves that refuse to fit in. Created in collaboration with musician Noya Kale, a member of the punk-rock band HaExiot and an independent musician, the work builds a theatrical and dramatic world where dance and music meet from an unexpected perspective.
A contemporary rock fairytale, PRESET celebrates the experiences that shape us as human beings: breakups, dreams, failures, and love. At its heart lies the gap between who we thought we were and who we eventually became.
Teaser
Premiere
Fluorescent Festival, Jerusalem, 2025.
Selected presentations
- Machol Shalem, Jerusalem
- Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv
- Israel Music Showcase 2025
- Fresco Dance Company Creators 2025
- New Dance Festival, Tel Aviv, 2025
Support
Supported by a residency at Vertigo Ecological Art Village in 2025 and by Inbal Dance Theater, Tel Aviv.
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