Choreography and Soundtrack Design: Adi Boutrous
Dancers: Ido Barak, Neshama Bazer, Naomi Ben David, Adi Boutrous, Stav Struz Boutrous, Uri Dicker
Lighting Design: Ofer Laufer
Dramaturgy: Yael Venezia
Costume Design: Stav Struz Boutrous
Technical Director: Asaf Ashkenazy
Production: Adi Boutrous Performing Arts
Diffusion: Drôles de Dames

Moving through an endless cycle of challenging physical configurations, the six dancers in "Nature of a Fall" arrange themselves on top of one another, climbing and collapsing, building impressive, fragile human structures on stage. The dancers' physical virtuoso presents the audience with a constant stream of images: solidarity and violence, softness and cruelty, attraction and repulsion. Intimate moments instantly turn into disturbing depictions of loss and collective power.

The work sketches a portrait of a world that struggles to stop, listen, or observe. Between collapse and recovery, it illuminates the cycles inherent to our humanity, where fragility is not an end but a turning point, and the pulse of life continues beating.

Adi Boutrous is a choreographer and dancer. He is a prominent voice in the new generation of contemporary dance, both in Israel and internationally. His works have been commissioned and presented on stages and at major institutions in Europe and Israel, including leading festivals and dance centers in France and Germany. In 2022, he won the Minister of Culture and Sport Prize for Dance.

Boutrous's works express the intricacy of power dynamics and struggle. His multifaceted identity - Arab-Christian-Israeli - creates from the outset, almost inevitably, an experience of friction and intersection. Boutrous holds "the other" within him, managing a composite web of relationships - not with his own identity, but with its public-facing presentation. He carries a movement that strives to expand boundaries, build bridges, and chart a common human destiny regardless of geography - all central aspects of his work.

A co-production of the Israel Festival, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, and the MART Foundation
Supported by The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts.