ZviDance: Like and Maim

LIKE is the third in Zvi Gotheiner’s trilogy, reflecting on our ever-increasing dependency on technology and how technology is shaping our current models of social interactions.

Like both works in the trilogy, ZOOM (2010) and SURVEILLANCE (2014), LIKE will allow audiences to reflect on their own notions of friendships, social belonging, loneliness and social hierarchy, while also interacting with the dancers by utilizing technology. Using their cellphone to “like” (or not), the audience will be invited to participate in a TV reality dance competition, to select a “winner” through a process of elimination. The Audience vote and the total “likes” will be charted and projected on a screen to determine how the dance piece advances. The structure of LIKE adhered to a deconstruction of a TV reality competition, selecting a “winner” in a process of elimination.

Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner, in collaboration with 8 dancers, Media Designer Josh Higgason, Composer Scott Killian and lighting Designer Mark London, will create MAIM ('water' in Hebrew), a new evening-length dance work

MAIM is in continuation of works Gotheiner created like GLACIER, GREEN MAPand DANCING THE BEAR’S EARS, reflecting on the current collision between humanity and nature. Through choreography, video imagery and sound, MAIM sets out to raise awareness to issues related to the global diminishing water resources due to global warming.