Y to C / Yaniv Cohen – Flekk
Flekk oppsto som en en-til-en danseforestilling med mål om å glede til små barn som var tvunget til å feire bursdag uten vennene sine på grunn av Covid-19. Samtidig ble Flekk skapt for å gi arbeid og kunstnerisk engasjement til profesjonelle dansere som under pandemien sto uten mye økonomisk støtte og stort sett uten muligheten til å nå et publikum å opptre for. Gjennom en kreativ tilnærming til regelen om sosial distansering, insisterer Flekk på at den dansende kroppen forblir til stede i et delt fysisk rom med tilskueren, slik at det umiddelbare abstrakte språket kroppen produserer kan nå barnet på en måte som ikke kan formidles gjennom teknologi og en flat skjerm.
Produksjon: Y to C – Yaniv Cohen
Dansere (residens DansiT): Michael Aspli, Marie Rechsteiner, Anna Schmidt, Gunhild Løhre, Chollada Phinitduang, Oda Bjørholm, Maja Furnes, Madeleine Fairminer.
Samprodusert av: Dansens Hus, Carte Blanche, DansiT.
Støttet av: Norsk Kulturråd
About Y to C / Yaniv Cohen
Y to C – is a roof name for all activities of visual artist Yaniv Cohen.
Yaniv Cohen (1977 Israel) is a dancer, Choreographer and photographer based in Oslo, Norway.
Yaniv started his dancing career at the age of 22 after studying at the Bat Dor school of dance in Tel Aviv. He was part of ‘Hakamery Theater’ in Tel Aviv and participated in different theater works. As freelance dancer he danced for Javiar De Frotus (UK), Yasmeen Godder, Sahar Azimi, Paul Selwyn Norton (UK) and Per Jonsson (SW), Alexander Ekman (Norwegian National Ballet)
After dancing one project with Iceland dance company (2005) he joined Norwegian based dance company Carte Blanche, where he danced 8 years until 2013. Working with choreographers such as Ina Christel Johannessen, Ohad Naharin, Ingunn Bjørnsgaard, Alan Lucien Øyen, Örjan Andersson, Bruno Listopad, Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, DansDesign, Hofesh Shechter and more.
In 2009 Yaniv created his first work and has been making his own work ever since, performing in Norway, Germany, Israel and the Czech Republic. He won 3rd prize in Hannover International Choreography Competition 2012 for his duet “I wish I was Johnny Cash”. Yaniv has created short duets, solos and full evening pieces.
Yaniv is an autodidact photographer and cinematographer, exhibiting in galleries and various festivals. Yaniv create short art movies, documentary films, promos and cinema ads for institutes like Carte Blanche and the Norwegian ballet and for freelance choreographers such as Masja Abrahamsen, Ina Christel Johannessen, Ella Christina Fiskum, Hillel Kogan and more.