Camera Obscura | 2025

 

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In his new work, Adi Boutrous confront himself. For the first time alone on stage, he struggles with the absence of the group, with the raw forms of the body, choosing and breaking them, between submission and conquest. The physical and aesthetic struggle is a tool for reviving the earthly element, the luxury of doubt, imposing the weight of life on man, on his morality and his ability to control the destruction that lies within him.

In the depths of the stage is a wheat field, inspired by Winslow Homer painting from 1865, The Veteran in a New Field, which depicts a farmer-warrior after the American Civil War. In “Camera Obscura,” the present is absorbed by the past, the wheat in mourning and life, compassion and a minefield, in the possibility of growth from a period that has collapsed.

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Choreography, performance, soundtrack and set design: Adi Boutrous
Light design and associate set design: Ofer Laufer

Dramaturgy: Yael Venezia
Costume design: Stav Struz Boutrous
Production: Adi Boutrous Performing Arts
International relations: Drôles de Dames

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The work was created within the framework of Nia+ residency program.

The work was produced with the assistance of the Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts.

Adi Boutrous Performing Arts is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality.

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