Lilla Roma Weisselberg’s Wilderness is a dance-performance set in a vast and fraught landscape view. A stage set up on a world, on a mountain top, inside a cave, at the bottom of the sea, between heaven and earth. A gust of wind blows through the show, breathing life into the expansive and desolate landscape. The void extends beyond what the eye can see and the heart can feel. The wilderness is a world that is yet to form, or – and – also – a world that has already collapsed and died out. A lonely – singular – figure appears in it. Its body language and the language of words are true to it, and it is clearly very practiced in its solitude. Even when another figure will emerge from the silence, its solitude will remain intact.
By: Lilla Roma Weisselberg
Participants: Amit Tina and Lilla Roma Weisselberg
Dramaturgy: Ariel Sereni Brown
Sound design, composition and technical management: Marco Milevski Tomasin
Original music: Ron Sheskin
Production and external eye: Noa Friedman
Design planning and construction of objects: Amit Drori and Marko Milevski Tomasin
Lighting design: Omar Shizaf
Costumes: Mai Abukia and Lilla Roma Weisselberg
Stage consultation: Khori Zamir
Graphic design: Tal Harada
With the assistance of the Yehoshua Rabinovitch Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts Produced with the support of the Lottery Council for Art and Culture
Orignal production by Hazira
Lilla Roma Weisselberg Weisselberg’s works are made of flames; blazing, dangerous, setting our gaze on fire. She uses Sisyphean choreographic structures, sound, and music to formulate deceptive stage expanses, where the illusion is visible and hidden, and the poetic element depends on physical dexterity and courage. Inspired by circus and acrobatic traditions, and drawing on the dark forces of heavy metal and fatalism, Weisselberg creates a rich, mythical and disjointed, decadent and dense world, made of emotion and humanity.
