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Sharon Eyal unveils Delay the Sadness at La Villette
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From 27 November to 6 December 2025, choreographer Sharon Eyal and her company S-E-D will present Delay the Sadness at La Villette in Paris. This new creation marks another major step in Sharon Eyal’s exploration of human emotion through movement and collective energy.
Created in collaboration with long-time artistic partner Gai Behar, Delay the Sadness is performed by eight dancers and performed to an original composition by Josef Laimon.
Delay the Sadness is a hypnotic exploration of human emotion and collective presence. Through a distinctive physical language, the dancers navigate a spectrum of states, from calm, meditative trance to intense, tautly charged motion. The choreography emphasises the interplay between individual expression and group dynamics, creating a fluid mosaic of gestures where tension, release, and subtle shifts in energy evoke the fleeting beauty of the present moment. The piece immerses the audience in a sensory experience where movement itself becomes a vessel for connection, and reflection.
Since founding their company in 2013, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar have built an internationally acclaimed repertoire, including the celebrated Love Cycle trilogy.
The second part of Love Cycle, Love Chapter 2, earned Sharon Eyal the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2017, supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, in collaboration with Opera Europa as part of the FEDORA Prizes competition, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission.
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Love Chapter 2 - FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2017 Winner
Love Chapter 2 is the second episode of the ongoing creation called Love Cycle, made by Sharon Eyal uniquely for the company. During 55 minutes without interruption, accompanied by DJ Ori Lichtik’s live music, five to seven dancers will explore through their movements social isolation, solitude lack of connections of nowadays world.
Sharon Eyal
Sharon Eyal was born in Jerusalem and based in France. She danced with the Batsheva Dance Company between 1990- 2008. Eyal served as Associate Artistic Director for Batsheva from 2003–04, and as a House Choreographer for the company from 2005–12. During her time with the company, she created 16 new creations.
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