Credits

• Choreography: Sharon Eyal
• Artistic Consultant: Gai Behar
• Costumes: Rebecca Hytting
• Music Composition: Ori Lichtik
• Lighting & Set Design: Alon Cohen
• Choreographic Assistance: Rebecca Hytting, Keren Lurie Pardes
• Rehearsal Direction & Production: Natalia Rodina

Dancers

Amber Pansters, Maasa Sakano, Marija Slavec-Neeman, Zachary Chant, Finn Lakeberg, Cornelius Mickel, Matti Tauru

Production Team

• Director of Tanzmainz: Honne Dohrmann
• Artistic Production Director: Lisa Besser
• Assistant Dance Director & Tour Coordination: Hannah Meyer-Scharenberg
• Stage Manager: Matthew Tusa

Production by the Staatstheater Mainz.

Notes on the Performance

Acclaimed choreographer Sharon Eyal, known for her unmistakable artistic signature, combines classical aesthetics and the physicality of ballet with electronic music in this creation.
Following Plafona Now and the internationally successful Soul Chain, Promise marks her third collaboration with Tanzmainz. The work represents another stage in a shared creative journey, developed over the course of just six intense weeks with seven dancers from the company.
On stage, the performers merge into a single collective body, moving through shadows suspended between closeness and desire, ecstasy and solitude. Unreal images appear and vanish with the same suddenness with which they arrive, yet remain vividly imprinted in the spectator’s mind like fleeting snapshots.
This sense of magic is intrinsic to dance itself, but here it is pushed to an extreme through a sophisticated interplay of discipline, devotion, and the deliberate stripping away of fixed meanings.
More than Eyal’s previous works, Promise unfolds like a dream: a succession of images that linger in memory as fragments of eternity.