The Architect and the Hit Man Meet in Israeli Choreographer Itzik Galili
Itzik Galili laughed when asked to describe his movement style. “Everyone tries to put you in certain boxes. I simply don’t fit into a category,” he said in a phone interview. “Each piece I create comes from a different inspiration and evolves from the bodies of the dancers I’m working with.”
Photos of Galili from current rehearsals feature him clad in black turtlenecks, black framed spectacles, and sporting a totally shaved head. His striking appearance suggests the hybrid of an architect and a hit man, but his demeanor is joking, quirky, and jovial. Born in Tel Aviv in 1961, the choreographer trained and performed with both the Bat-Dor and Batsheva dance companies, Israel’s premier troupes. This season two of the veteran Israeli choreographer’s pieces are being performed—Mono Lisa with Ballet Jazz de Montreal (BJM), which opens at New York’s Joyce Theater on May 24, and Man of the Hour with The Israeli Opera, which opened last January in Tel Aviv. “The piece is about Israel for me. It is hectic, intellectual, sober, and primitive,” said Galili. “The man of the hour is the person sitting in the audience, the man who is overworked and overloaded with creative energy.”
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