As he battles a rare cancer, Gal Gorfung chooses to dance through the physical changes he is experiencing. He punches at the imperfection, sings about the paralysis of his lips, moves within his altered body, and celebrates while he can. Gal seeks to find humor, glam, movement, and compassion within the recovery process. Fusion is a performance combining dance, video projections, singing, and drag. The performance seeks to coalesce not only the convalescent, but also the internal contradictions: the duality that exists between masculinity and femininity, between movement and paralysis, between life and death. Fusion produces a kinetic language that relies on contrasts – ranging from dance virtuosity to disease-driven reflexes – tremors, spasms, and asymmetry – interweaving one another until a new language is created that contains both. Fusion pushes past the physical body and its limitations, and in its quest for wholeness, seeks out the ability to undergo change, transformation, and transcendence.

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Pergorming: Gal Gorfung

Director: Adi Goral

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Israel  Festival