ADINA BAR-ON
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Untitled
20 minutes, 7/09/2001atatPall Mall Club

by Victor Petrov
Concentrated emotions, plaintive singing and a scream, gestures, extreme emotionality. This is the inner dialogue of a screaming soul, a tale of time, reflections on one's life and one's place in the world. The powerful vocal sounds accompanying it are like associations with femininity, love, and the origins of life.

The performer is wearing an ocean-wave-coloured dress. Water is the symbol of the feminine Ying. Perhaps water is also a symbol of lament and tears, unrealised hopes and dreams. A scream. The power of the voice, ranging from a calling and summoning tone, to a sound dying away, left in solitude and empty silence. The performer walks from spectator to spectator, appealing to each of them using gestures, mimicry, and the voice. These contacts are united in their emotional context, which contains the depths of personal suffering, the emotionality of a whole nation with such a difficult history, the openness of the soul, and the power of art.

photo: Yasmin Davis