Songs and Silences

The press about Amos Ben-Tal/OFFprojects

"Pure dance and playful abstraction deliver a sensation of freedom" Theaterkrant about PART

"Choreographer Amos Ben-Tal, sound artist Salvador Breed and the musicians of the Ragazze Quartet disassemble the composition to gloriously reassemble it before the eyes and ears of the audience."  Parool over PART

"Immensely fascinating what Ben-Tal does with the perception of space, time and human actions." Trouw about Seconds

"By seeking the diversity, the complex and at the same time the universal and common of man in his performance, Ben-Tal invites us to communicate. Using the incredible skills of the performers, he makes everyone aware of their own humanity." jury Dioraphte Prize on HOWL

"In the fascinating choreography Interval by Amos Ben-Tal, the dancers interact with the kinetic installation by Gosse de Kort. In the face of the technology-driven objects and the resulting limitations and risks, the dancers maneuver themselves with conviction, but never lose their sense of humanity." (Jury VSCD, ‘Swans’)

About Amos Ben-Tal and OFFprojects

OFFprojects is a collective of artists who create interdisciplinary performances and installations using dance, music, image and words. The group consists of former dancers from Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Ensemble who gather around the work of choreographer, musician and writer Amos Ben-Tal. The group's uncompromising craftsmanship and artistry, combined with experimentation and conceptual thinking, has established their reputation as challenging yet appealing to a wide audience.

The versatile makers regularly seek collaborations with which they can come up with a new form for their creations. Together with Spinvis, they created the award-winning dance performance/talk show Howl (Dioraphte Dansprijs 2016). They worked for two years on a series of works and installations called 60, a project about the perception of time. With Interval (2021), they explored the relationship between dance and architecture together with artist Gosse de Kort in a performance that was nominated for a ‘Swan’ for best dance production. For their most recent production PART, they shared the stage with the musicians of the Ragazze Quartet and sound designer Salvador Breed.