Delay the Sadness

Choreography: Sharon Eyal

Co-Creator: Gai Behar

Original Music: Josef Laimon

Lighting Design: Alon Cohen

Costumes Design: Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar in collaboration with Noa Eyal Behar

3D print designer: By Serge H

Costumes Production: Bas et Hauts Atelier, Paris

Makeup design & General styling: Noa Eyal Behar

Dancers: Darren Devaney, Juan Gil, Alice Godfrey, Johnny McMillan, Keren Lurie Pardes, Nitzan Ressler, Héloïse Jocqueviel, Gregory Lau

Rehearsal Director: Clyde Emmanuel Archer

Supported by: Fondation BNP Paribas; French Ministry of Culture – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France.

 

Delay the Sadness—the long-awaited new creation by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar—marks another extraordinary chapter in their artistic partnership and occupies a singular place within Eyal's body of work. It is her most intimate creation to date.

 

Dedicated to Sharon Eyal's mother, Adina Eyal, the work is neither a requiem nor a ritual of mourning. Rather, it is a meditation on the continuation of life and on the invisible traces that those we love leave behind after they are gone. What remains is more than memory: it is movement, breath, gesture, rhythm, and the body's quiet inheritance. Through us, they continue to exist.

 

Sharon Eyal distils the essence of the work into three simple statements:

Life continues after death.

Sadness continues, as does innocence.

This is how my mother continues to live.

 

 

🚪 Doors Open: 19:30

⏳ Duration: 55 minutes

🔞 Age Restriction: 14+