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Artist and choreographer Ayelet Cohen ' s work accomplishes an insightful exploration of the connection between music and dance, turning them into one united language, to walk the viewers through a multilayered experience, inducing them to elaborate personal associations and intepretations. Her style rejects any conventional classifications and is marked with freedom as well as coherence, while encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance. One of the most impressive aspects of Cohen ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of transforming a reality into an alternate one: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Ayelet and welcome to ART Habens: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? For several years now, you have been an independent choreographer, while you also serve as a dancer in some of your work. How do these experiences influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Hello and thank you very much. I’ m happy to be here. I founded MakesounD – Music & Dance Projects four years ago, after earning my Masters in Choreography. The major beginning of my journey was essentially my academic studies in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. It was there that I was exposed to composition classes for the first time, and there that I had my first opportunity as a professional dancer to experience works by the country’ s leading choreographers. The inclination to explore music is something that I developed at home. My mother is a music teacher and
Ayelet Cohen d I understand the extent that it enables me to express myself and how important the“ world of the stage” is to me. Suddenly, I discovered myself in a totally different light; it was then that I understood that this is my place.
Today, I teach ballet in addition to my creative work, and one of the amazing gifts that I am privileged to have now is the opportunity to incorporate dancers that I have personally trained in my ensembles. I believe that the fact
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