*NOISES* is a choreographic response to the last video work of artist Meir Eshel Absalon’s titled “Bruits” (1993) that features the artist screaming repeatedly into the camera. The choreographer Nitsan Margaliot takes this contained outburst as an invitation for his performative engagement with Absalon’s archive, who died from HIV/AIDS at the age of 28.
In this solo piece, Nitsan Margaliot moves between states and structures that allude to Absalon’s body of work. Margaliot engages with the body as a site that registers and transforms emotional and historical tension. Positioned between reaction and resistance, *NOISES* explores how the body processes uncertainty, fear, and instability. Through this choreographic approach to an archive, Margaliot practices “being with” Absalon, and engages in a conversation with his chosen ancestor, whom he never met.
Choreography, performance: Nitsan Margaliot
Dramaturgy: Anna Chwialkowska, Maxwell McCarthy
Sound design: Antoine Mermet
Costume: Judith Förster
Scenography: Gil Shachar
Supported by The European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, with a showing at T*Danse Festival in Aosta, Italy (2024); and residency and showing at Tanzhaus Zürich (2025). Premiere as part of *100° Diaspora* in the framework of *Performing Exiles* at Berliner Festspiele (2025).
Nitsan Margaliot is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin, engaged with relationality through queer, personal, and uncanny archives. His artistic practice addresses subtle absences, linking absurdity with poetry, and proposes continuity in the fractured present moment. He holds an MFA in dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been presented at The 5th Floor Tokyo, 14StreetY NYC, Archiv der Avantgarden — Egidio Marzona, Radialsystem, Berliner Festspiele, and Frankfurt LAB. In 2020 he initiated Touching Margins, an alter-archive, with Sasha Portyannikova and Anna Chwialkowska. From 2022-24, he co-curated the ACROSS Festival, alongside several exhibitions at Galerie Wedding. Nitsan collaborates regularly with Antoine Mermet, Pol Pi, ZINADA – Jin Lee & Jihun Choi, Milla Koistinen, Laura Kirshenbaum, Aoife McAtamney, Esther Siddiquie, and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop.
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