Leesaar The Company

Geisha

Full of vivid, cinematic characters, Geisha is a sensual duet featuring Saar Harari and Jye-Hwei Lin, accompanied by spoken and sung text by Lee Sher. Embodying a raw sensuality and creating tension between control and surrender, the performers explore a relationship that is still negotiating its borders, limits, and shifting states of common interaction.

Established in Israel in 2000 by the actor/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari, LeeSaar The Company uses the different disciplines and training of theater and dance to create original performances. In 2004, after residency in Sydney, Australia, and two seasons in Tel Aviv, the company moved to New York. Lee and Saar received American green cards awarded for excellence in the performing arts in 2005, a Six Points Fellowship for 2007-2008, and were nominated for the 2008 Alpert Award in Dance. The duo is the recent recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a NYFA Fellowship in choreography.

This project was made possible by the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.

Supported by the Consulate General of Israel, celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary.

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LeeSaar’s dances always require unwavering attention, they are powerful. "Geisha" is one of their strongest and most fascinating excursions into territory whose physical and emotional atmospheres are a coolly seething whole. The New York Times