SPRING: HOT WALK

Two women walk on a treadmill, with projected images of a picturesque park landscape creating the illusion of a walk in nature. Their conversation flows from topics like menopause and climate change to motherhood, touching on “hot” issues such as shame, anger, and regret. As their encounter unfolds, dance and image gradually takes over from speech — Walking turns into rocking, speaking becomes singing, and the park transforms into other worlds.

The performance highlights the connection between the transformation of the body and the warming of our planet, showcasing both destruction and renewal. The audience experiences a mix of dry humor and unsettling stories, which, in their vibrant spontaneity, contrast sharply with the stiff aesthetics of the simulated park. HOT WALK offers a disruptive journey through the changes in our inner and outer worlds, intertwining the personal with the planetary.

With HOT WALK, Levi continues to explore perception, combining multiple perspectives and manipulating video images. She has established herself as a choreographer who places dance in spaces where social conventions and expectations are made visible.

Keren Levi is a choreographer based in Amsterdam, leading the company NeverLike, which receives funding from various public and private foundations. Her work is idiosyncratic, multidisciplinary, and conceptual, blending dance, music, and video. Levi’s performances are structured around principles of film and music, exploring themes with a tender-sharp feminist focus. She creates heterogeneous representations of women, challenging social conventions and expectations through her work. Levi is dedicated to positioning dance in a space where it becomes a tool for exploring broader socio-political contexts, constantly questioning what dance is and the role it can play in society.

Since 2004, Keren Levi has created multidisciplinary dance performances that engage both adult and young audiences. Her inventive combinations of abstract concepts and technology stimulate the imagination, as seen in works like Territory (2004), winner of the BNG Prize, and Couple-Like #2 (2010), which won the Zilveren Krekel. In 2013, Levi received the Dioraphte Prize for The Dry Piece, a performance that contrasts the female body and modern beauty ideals with Hollywood choreography.