Perfect Broken Night #2

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An Intimate Performance with Renata Sheppard & Eldar Baruch

Join us for an intimate evening performance with New York–based choreographer Renata Sheppard and musician/composer Eldar Baruch (Tel Aviv), along with dancer Noam Carmeli, sharing a new work-in-progress that merges live movement, drawing, and sound.

Sheppard’s kinetic drawings expand the idea of dance beyond the body into visual form. During performance, choreography becomes a tool for mark-making: the dancer moves across paper with charcoal, generating large-scale drawings in real time. These drawings function as both visual artifacts and choreographic scores—traces of movement that remain after the performance ends.

Afterward, select sections of these delicate works are preserved through a bespoke resin process, transforming them into lasting visual art.

The choreography itself draws from conceptual systems—procedural algorithms, if/then sequencing, decision theory, and mathematical structures such as Fibonacci sequences and particle acceleration—creating patterns that translate physical movement into visual composition.

Through this practice, dance transcends its ephemeral nature. Sheppard’s work connects choreography with mathematics, physics, digital technologies, and interactive systems, inviting audiences to witness how movement can generate form, structure, and image.

For this special presentation, she is joined by Eldar Baruch, an internationally collaborating composer and live performer whose work spans dance, theatre, film, and video art. Based in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and New York, Baruch creates immersive sound environments that respond directly to choreography and performance.

*“My kinetic drawings offer an expanded notion of dance as a multi-dimensional experience. The origin is the body—my tool for crafting choreographic tasks—and the byproduct is a visual artifact created by charcoal on paper: a ‘score’ or ‘print’ of the live performance that remains.”
— Renata Sheppard*

Renata Sheppard has lived and worked across the United States, Europe, and Asia as a Fulbright Scholar, Henry Luce Scholar, Kate Neal Kinley Fellow, and U.S. Embassy Artist Research grantee. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges performance, visual art, and public engagement, informed by a background in arts education and somatic practices including yoga, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, and Gyrotonic®.