By Ayelet Dekel - Haaretz..Com
Earthy, muscular dreamers move to a gypsy beat in Barak Marshall's "Monger," commissioned for the Tel Aviv Dance Festival and premiering next Friday. Influenced by the vividly detailed, surreal imagery of Bruno Schulz, and the tensions of Jean Genet's "The Maids," Marshall creates a compelling physical narrative in his new work. In simple dresses and dark suits with plain white shirts, the dancers never stop moving, as if bound together by invisible forces, perhaps by history itself. The gestures are precise and fluid: The arc of an arm embracing the air, the women's cupped hands forming a moon, the halo just above the men's heads - all fleetingly recall Chagall's lovers, floating in the midnight blue of distant Jewish imagery.
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