Embarrassed Years

Embarrassment is a key point on the border between the conscious and the unconscious and between oneself and the other. Embarrassment is a door that a person keeps closed before others, and that is sometimes even closed to themselves. We can open that door to discover another side of our human experiences. Embarrassed Years takes a nonjudgmental look at our most intimate moments, our internal, physical underground, the experiences and actions we conceal from others. By repressing these human experiences, we put up borders between ourselves, our bodies and others. <b>Shani Granot</b> (IL), born in 1978, is a dancer and a dance‐maker. She joined the Batsheva Youth Ensemble in 1996. In 2002 she graduated from P.A.R.T.S (Brussels). Since 2003 she has worked in close collaboration with Cristian Duarte, Peter Fol, Keren Levi, Arkadi Zaides, and Daniel Landau both in Europe and in Israel. In 2012 she created the piece An Hour with All‐Eaters, together with Nevo Romano who she has continued to collaborate with since. <b>Nevo Romano</b> (IL), born in 1982, is an artist, performer and teacher. He studied violin in the Buchmann–Mehta School of Music, and graduated from the School of Visual Theater Jerusalem and the Adama Dance School, where he later taught technique and improvisation. Romano worked and collaborated with Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal, Nava Frenkel, Daniel Landau, Shani Granot and Ariel Cohen. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Dance at Sapir College. <b>Ariel Cohen</b> (IL), born in 1983, is a stage artist, visual artist and a performer. He studied at Kirov Academy in Washington D.C, and has a B.A from Amsterdam Hogeschool Voor De Kunst. He danced with Batsheva Dance Company, Scapino Ballet, Bern Ballet I.T Dansa, and created number of stage works for various dance festivals in Israel. His works were also presented in several galleries in Tel Aviv. Among others he collaborated with the choreographer Osnat Kelner. Cohen designed the costumes for Sadeh21 And The Hole by Ohad Naharin and served as an assistant to Naharin for the piece Last Work.