Transparent Weights: a solo piece choreographed and performed by Nomi Bachar expressing the attachments and the gathering of negative experiences we cumulate over life times and the process of shedding them. In this piece Nomi Bachar collaborates with Natasha Von Rosenchilde and Nina Spiro. Natasha synthesizes in her work visual arts, design, sculpture and photography. Nina Spiro is a musician using a number of shamanic and Native American flutes.

Pictured: Nomi Bachar. InnerLandscapes at Merce Cunningham Studio 2003. ©Copyright 2005.

photo:Steven Schreiber

Divine Beggar: a performance piece choreographed by Nomi Bachar exploring the dual nature of men, the divine and the profane. It takes place in a luxurious restaurant where the "divine self", portrayed as a beautiful woman, gives birth to the "human self", to the shock and dismay of the waiter. The "human self", confused, lost and scared, rejected by the waiter, slowly metamorphoses into a beautiful woman through the unconditional love of the "divine self" and joins her at the dinner table.

Miss Divine: Nomi Bachar, Adam: Michael Buoni, and Young Miss Divine: Caitlin Mulhern (in second picture, click image at right for second image). InnerLandscapes at Merce Cunningham Studio 2005. ©Copyright 2005.

photo:Steven Schreiber

Dr. Love: a humorous commentary on love, explores the notion that love can become a terrible disease if we don't comply with the rules of proper transformation. Dr. Love, an old-time diva, imparts her wisdom while two young dancers reveal the stages of love in a mysterious and decadent cabaret atmosphere.

photo: Randy Anderson (left) & Nomi Bachar. InnerLandscapes at Merce Cunningham Studio 2003. ©Copyright 2003.

photo: Ellen Crane, ©copyright 2003

Lifeshed:
written, choreographed & directed: Nomi Bachar
the cast:
The Man: Tim Intravia, Marcos Vedoveto
The Girl: Reema Zaman
costume and set design: Nomi Bachar
video art: Robert Federico
music: Shastro
sound design: Doug Smith
set construction: Ernesto Zamerano

Based on a true story about a young man who traveled to Thailand, and there bought a fourteen year old girl from her brother for a week for $1,000. The week began with him having sex with her, and escalated to rape, physical and emotional abuse. The piece explores the torment of victim and victimizer.

For more information about the Sex Trade Industry, please visit the following websites:
www.state.gov/g/tip | www.crime.about.com/od/sex/a/cst1.htm | www.freeachild.org/facts.html

Nomi would like to thank her cast for their creative collaboration.

photo: Steven Schreiber

Living Room:

conceived and choreographed: Nomi Bachar
music and text: Chava Alberstein
sound arrangement: Alex Bezgin

dedicated to my father with love – Nomi Bachar

In a living room, a woman flashes back to herself as a young girl in a world of isolation and fear. She sees herself reaching out to her father for connection and help. He is unable to respond. The two personas (the woman and her inner-girl) re-experience a time of heartbreak and a sense of death. The piece unravels the process of the woman guiding her inner-girl to find her own voice and freedom. InnerLandscapes at Joyce Soho February 2004.

The Telephone Call:  A text by Dorothy Parker is woven into a soundscape of music and sound effects. A woman has a long and torturous wait for her lover's telephone call and a desperate longing for love. A longing leading to the inevitable need to let go and liberate herself from dependency. InnerLandscapes at Merce Cunningham 2001, Joyce Soho 2004

photo: Ellen Crane

Mary Magdalene:  A story of a meeting between Mary Magdalene and Jesus and her spiritual unfolding through the experience of love. The piece uses movement, text and music to describe her experience. InnerLandscapes at Raw Space 1999. NY Fringe Festival 2001

photo: Ellen Crane

Blessed Death:  A trilogy of three pieces: 1. Snake Woman, 2. In Between and 3. Many Lives. Nomi Bachar Performance Company at Raw Space 1998.

Snake Woman:  Unravels a myth, the story of Snake Woman. She is greed, hunger, destruction. Two different performers represent the human and the reptilian form of Snake Woman. The third actress representing Earth. Text (read in five different languages), music and vocals are woven together creating a soundtrack. Raw Space1998, Merce Cunningham 2002

photo: Ellen Crane

In Between:  Explores the inner world of a Woman pulled by two forces - Faith and Despair. All three are embodied by dancer-actors. The text is sung by a vocalist, the fourth actor.

Many Lives:  A woman relives seven different past lives of herself while sitting in meditation. Presented by two actresses and a musician.

Destination Love:  Unravels one woman's journey from abusiveness of self and others to true power and freedom through five different love relationships. Nomi Bachar Performance Company at Ubu Theater 1996. ©Copyright 1996.

Photo: Darkness: Nomi Bachar & Dean Gregory

©copyright 1996

May I Live: A piece celebrating the ability of the human spirit to break the bondage of inner and outer fear and oppression with text and music performed by a vocalist. InnerLandscapes at Merce Cunningham 2003.

Photo: Dancer Nomi Bacher.

photo: Ellen Crane