Boys Just Want To Have Fun - ISREAEL ALONI | 18-30th of September
Free residency at EiMa.
Synopsis

The two weeks residency at EIMA will be used for research and early stages of development for a new project by Israel Aloni titled Boys Just Want To Have Fun which will premier in Fall 2024. Boys Just Want To Have Fun addresses the detrimental impact of our societies mostly suppressing homo-sensuality and homoeroticism but only encouraging and celebrating it in contexts of competition (sports) and compete (war). Boys Just Want To Have Fun is Aloni's attempt to offer an alternative methodology to promote the feminist-post-humanist agenda by deconstructing the ‘man’. To the residency I invited the following artists (this is all depending on funding of course) Elias Kraft (Sweden) Elias Khanamidi (Sweden) Tomer Giat (Israel) Victor Person (Sweden) Arūnas Mozūraitis (Lithuania)

 
Biography/ies
 
Israel Aloni
An independent choreographer, educator, performer, writer and provocateur. Aloni’s choreographic practice is vigorous and contextualised within contemporary theories and critical social-political movement. Their artistic voice transcends boarders and conventions and has been presented around the world. At the moment Aloni’s work, Schism (which challenges the very notion of borders) is touring in Sweden. Their next independent choreographic work titled Boys Just Want To Have Fun will be premiering in Fall 2024. Aloni is the Artistic Director of ilDance, an independent contemporary dance body operating from Gothenburg, Sweden; Architect and international project manager of International Contemporary Dance Collective (iCoDaCo) which was co-founded by Creative Europe; Artistic Director of COMPASS - a national infrastructure for the support and presentation of contemporary dance by emerging artists across Sweden; Aloni is a researcher in a project titled Cultural Transformation Movement which is led by Trans Europe Halles and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission; in 2018 Aloni initiated and directed Tr.IPP which was a unique pathway for emerging artists in Melbourne, Australia. Aloni is member of the Advisory Committee of IETM - International Contemporary Performing Arts Network, a mentor at the Nordic Culture Point Nordic-Baltic mentorship program 2022-2023, as well as advisor for BIRCA - Residency Centre for Artists on Bornholm.