Love Chapter 2

The winner of the FEDORA - Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet, Love: Chapter 2 pulses with the chaos and confusion of love. Six dancers, propelled by Ori Lichtik’s thrumming electronic score, circle each other with a livewire fluidity choreographed by Sharon Eyal. “A sense of disaster,” as she puts it in her artist’s statement, “crawls like an illness via the dancers’ bodies. Now that there are no limits, we are dangerous to ourselves.” As the dance escalates to its breaking point, the performers surrender to its energy—as Eyal puts it, they “give themselves to the blast”—as a group effort to purge their anxious alienation. Louise Narboni’s filmed version of Eyal’s performance keeps the intensity intact within this adrenaline rush of a show that faithfully whips up the confusion of a lonely heart.