Laura Kirshenbaum - No hard feelings

The Creative Crossroad artist Laura Kirshenbaum, selected by ICI-CCN de Montpellier, was selected to work on her latest projects "H.A.N.D.S." and her solo "No hard feelings".

Laura Kirshenbaum is a french-israeli choreographer, she was EXERCE MA and graduated in 2017. She is based in Montpellier and sharing her time between the developpement of her work in France, Israël, Sweeden and Belgium, and activelly participating to the Montpellier artistic scene. 

In the frame of Creative Crossroads, she is supported by ICI-CCN de Montpellier, STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound (Leuven, Belgium), 4Culture (Bucarest, Romania) and Tala Dance Center (Zagreb).

During this first cycle of Creative Crossroad, Laura Kirshenbaum has developped the second part of the H.A.N.D.S. project’s "No Hard Feelings" (creation november 2020). 

She had a creation residency in STUK (Leuven, Belgium) from July the 30th to August the 10th, 2019, then a creation residency in studio Yano at ICI-CCN de Montpellier (France) from September the 23rd to October the 6th, 2019. 

She presented her solo Words, first part of the H.A.N.D.S project’s, was presented with the support of ICI-CCN of Montpellier within the Creative Crossroad, in the frame of the Magdalena festival, in Montpellier on October the 12d, 2019. 

ICI-CCN is also providing her an administrative support for the all cycle in order to help the company structure itself. 

NO HARD FEELINGS  is the second part of H.A.N.D project where anything can happen and nothing is taken for granted.
Going back to Genesis, Laura Kirshenbaum alters archetypal representations of women, calling upon Eve’s avatars and their portrayal over time. With a sense of irony and humour, she celebrates and dances her constantly becoming selves and herstories: at times a witch, a whore, both snake and bird, ghost, fluid, irruptive.
Her approach to corporeality is playful: displacing images, fictionalising facts, revealing instabilities.
Gaps proliferate.
With imagination at hand and trouble in action, eating the apple isn’t that big of a deal.

Choreography and performance Laura Kirshenbaum
Music Paola Stella Minni and Konstantinos Rizos in collaboration with Laura Kirshenbaum
Scenography, Light and Costumes Anat Bosak
External eye Myrto Ktstiki, Nitsan Margaliot 
Production Golden Hands
Co production ICI CCN Montpellier - Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée / Direction Christian Rizzo, STUK house for image and sound, WASP working art space and production Bucarest 

NO HARD FEELINGS is enjoying the support of Creative Crossroads program (2018-2020), commissioned by Life Long Burning-  Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe.

Residencies ICI-CCN Montpellier - Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée / Direction Christian Rizzo, STUK , Kelim Center for Choreography (Israel), Studio La nef (Montpellier ), Honolulu (Nantes), ENSAD École Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de Montpellier.

View her experience report in the upper right column and in the gallery below.