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choreographer: Sahar Azimi
assistant choreographer: Elad Schechter
dancers: Benjamin Bac, Sara Barbieri, Petra Chelfi, Darija Doždor, Petra Hrašćanec, Maša Kolar, Aleksandra Mišić, Ognjen Vučinić
lights creation: Aleksandar Čavlek
music: Didi Erez
costumes: Emina Tataragić
artistic director of ZPA ensemble: Snježana Abramović Milković

The need to be understood by everyone.
The code or format that forms the simple idea in well wrapped covers to get more rating points.
The sacredness of awkward as the new form of uniqueness...
The fatigued spirit looking from behind the covers.
And the exceptional code that leaves some room to freedom of spirit.
Or when we copy the code we allready give it our own interpretation and sometimes we can even win the code......?!
In our "show" we present the tasks of the code and watch the dancers cope with learning and keeping the code body and mind...

Sahar Azimi, dancer, actor and choreographer, was born in Israel in 1974. He started his career as a professional dancer in 1994 and since then was a part of the Inbal Dance Theater, Koldemmama Dance Co, Bat sheva ensemble, Barak Marshals Dance Co. and the Clipa theater. As a dancer Sahar Azimi also worked and performed in Noa Dar Dance Theater. As a professional choreographer he did numerous dance pieces in different countries and for different festivals. Among many prizes and supports that Sahar Azimi has won during his professional career, we should certainly mention the prize for young choreographers of the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture in 2005, the support of Mifal Hapais foundation in 2005, the support of Yehoshua Rabinovitch foundation in 2005/2007 and the 'Teva' support in the years 2005 and 2006. Azimi worked in some of the most famous dance institutions - as the Artistic director of the ensemble of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance and the Head of the dance department in “Matan”, Organization for excellency in arts - and held workshops and courses of contemporary dance at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, taught technique and composition classes in the Tseh summer school for professional dancers in Moscow, held master classes in Belgrade, Paris, Lausanne, Florence ...