It was his first full evening work. A revelation. In 2010, POLITICAL MOTHER exploded onto the stage, announcing to the world there was a new choreographer in town, Hofesh Shechter. Israeli born choreographer, musician and composer, Shechter moved to the UK and founded his company in 2008, bringing together his passion for music and movement and creating an instinctual energy capable of pervading body and space and engaging the senses.
Considered an “audio-visual marvel”, he was catapulted into the upper echelons of the world of choreography: he earned the position of “associate artist” at the prestigious Sadler's Wells in London and has since been invited to create works with leading opera and dance companies to include the Nederlands Dans Theater I, the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan for a choreographed production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Without ever stopping to create and develop projects for his company, he has even established a youth arm of his dance company called “Shechter II”, biennual programme for the next generation of emerging artists – aged 18 to 25 – selected from over 1000 dancers from across the world. For them he not only creates new works but also re-imagines his repertoire.
Two times winner of the Prix de la Critique, in 2015 for Disappearing Act and in 2018 for Show, Shechter II returns – after a year on hold due to the pandemic – with the 10th anniversary celebrations, which actually fell in 2020: POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED, a new version of Shechter's blockbuster creation for these exceptional world-class dancers. A concentrate of Shechter’s dance universe, made up of ground-shaking movements, breathtaking unisons, arms raised above the head in twisting motions, groups fast moving and crawling to pounding percussions and high decibels. Its theme? Totalitarianism and ideological violence, both more topical than ever, for a mind-blowing visual and acoustic journey through colliding worlds.