Ruth Leon recommends… Hofesh Schecter’s Clowns – Digital Theatre

Hofesh Schecter’s Clowns – Digital Theatre

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Hofesh Schecter is an Israeli choreographer, dancer and composer based in London whose modern dance works are performed all over the world.

​He is one of those artists who can be described but not classified. First a talented pianist, switching to dance studies early, he has been a soloist in a ballet company, played drums in a rock group, served as a soldier, made dances and composed music for films and stage musicals – he was nominated for a Tony for his choreography for the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof– and formed his own modern dance company. His works set out to change minds and ask questions of the audience.
 
Clowns is shocking, a dance film directed, choreographed and composed by Hofesh Shechter as a bold and sarcastic commentary on society’s ever-growing indifference to violence. It features ten world-class dancers from 8 different countries playing out a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking: how far will we go in the name of entertainment?
 
The 30 minute piece combines Shechter’s bold, exhilarating and tribal choreography with his own percussive, cinematic score, and the camera gets up close to the exceptionally talented ensemble of dancers.
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It was commissioned by the BBC and captured live at Battersea Arts Centre in 2018.

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