On tour
By: Nimrod Freed | Design: Talia Freed | Performed by: The Nimrod Freed/Tami Dance Company.

The audience is invited to peep into 5 different dance performances in 5 peeping cells to the same music, and experience dance from a new perspective. The peeping cells are scattered in public spaces: on the street, in the central square, in the park, on the sidewalk, on the riverbank and so on. The designed peeping cells are in dialogue with the chosen urban/natural public space. The audience, who is actively involved with PeepDance performances in the public space -creates a colorful and charged peeping village, which completely changes the space, imbuing it with new aesthetics and meaning.
Peep Dance challenges the perception of the traditional structure of viewing a dance-theatre piece. It redefines points of view from which the spectator views the piece and its location in the street. It creates a new relationship between the audience and a public space dance performance. It challenges and stretches the boundaries between the audience and the dancers, via fostering a dialogue between dance and other mediums. PeepDance is exploring the connection between intimacy and daily life and between observation and voyeurism. The peeping action takes place anytime and everywhere in our virtual and physical space – between one another and between the regime and its citizens. The streets, the parks, public spaces and private spaces are constantly being filmed. News on TV and reality shows brings voyeurism into our homes. Social networks can reveal almost anything about us. Where is reality culture headed? Are we losing our right to privacy?
PeepDance was first created and produced in the international Bat-Yam Street Theatre Festival in 2007, supported by Hapais, Culture and Arts Council, in collaboration with the Choreographers’ Association. Since then it has had a tremendous success both in Israel and around the world. Over 30,000 spectators have seen PeepDance and it has been reviewed as a breakthrough and a change to conventions of viewing habits in the dance world.
Along the years the name of the piece has been modified to PeepDance– The Body is the Last Space for Freedom. PeepDance is also performed as an international collaborative coproduction between wonderful dance troupes from Australia, Japan, Cyprus, South Africa and in Israel. The work carries a message of human rights, receiving critical acclaim from both audience and the media alike.
Peep Dance has won the Design & Emotion Conference Award in Hong Kong.
PeepDance was invited to perform in AZA2015 –Future City, an International Festival and Academic Conference in Johannesburg, September 2015
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7BGU_qNwasQ
Recent performances:
*China, Guangdong International Dance festival 2014
*Macao, 2014 the Fringe International Festival
*Portugal, 2014 Alamada International Dance Festival
*Italy, the 13th International Biennale for Architecture in Venice in 2012, an international coproduction in collaboration with QUT DANCERS from Brisbane, Australia, commissioned by the Australian booth as an opening act for the Australian and Israeli pavilions. Performances took place on the rooftop of the In Paradiso restaurant
*Australia, 2011 Brisbane festival, one of the opening acts of the prestigious festival, in an international coproduction with QUT DANCERS
*USA, Summer Stage Festival in Central Park, New York City.
*Lithuania, Aura International Dance Festival, the festival'skey event.
*South Africa, 2010 AZA- the Johannesburg Biennale for Interdisciplinary Architecture: Event+ City. An International collaboration with the Johannesburg "MOVING INTO DANCE" Dance Company.
*Cyprus, Nicosia- DANCEWAVES Festival, performed on the border between Nicosia and Turkey in an International coproduction with DANCE LAB Dance Company from Nicosia.
*The Israel Festival, Jerusalem - An international collaboration with the virtuous male dance company KAYM from Tokyo, Japan
In Israel -
"International Exposure" Festival, Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv; TheTel Aviv New Port; The Jaffa Port; The Florentine Mill.
The Tveria Boardwalk, the Hecht Museum in Haifa, the Western Galilee Academic College in Akko, the Central Station in Kiryat Shmona, the Ashdod Culture Hall Square in, and more.

From the press:

"One of the most memorable and innovative dances I have seen in a while" Dancing Perfectly Free, NY
“Pushing the boundaries …unique performances… outstanding” the Courier Mail, Australia
“PeepDance is fascinating us” Dance Magazine, NY
“Don’t miss it…” TimeOut Cypress
“Original…genuine…” Lithuania