Iris Erez -"Movement with Fringes"

This episode, the first in the ׳Conversations with Choreographers׳ series, features Iris Erez in a conversation about the concept of the body, tensions between improvisation and choreography, and the relationships between the choreographer and dancer-creators, as explored through her work. Erez describes how initial ideas, such as "a sense of home" or "a headless body" are transformed into movement material through exercises, dialogue, and encounters with the dancers. She emphasizes the importance of improvisation within structured choreography and the desire to preserve rawness—what she refers to as "ripples," "residues," and "fringes."

Dr. Idit Suslik responds to the interview through three thematic lenses grounded in contemporary dance theory: the gaps and residues within movement syntax; openness and rawness as resistance to rigid structures; and the redefinition of contemporary dance practice as a form of deep bodily attentiveness. This episode offers radical conceptualizations of the choreographic process and rearticulates what it means to be a dancer today.