CREDITS
Concept, Direction & Choreography
Jasmin Vardimon MBE
Created with & Performed by
Luke Burrough, Tim Casson, Olga Clavel-Gimeno, Sam Coren, Mafalda Deville, Esteban Fourmi, David Lloyd, YunKyung Song, Elena Stavropoulou
Set & Media Design
Guy Bar-Amotz & Jasmin Vardimon MBE
Lighting Design
Chahine Yavroyan
Sound Design
Jasmin Vardimon MBE
Costume Design
Abigail Hammond
Script
Pamela Carter
Dramaturgy
Nina Steiger & Guy Bar-Amotz
Rehearsal Direction
David Nondorf
Production Manager
Ben Payne
Campaign Photography
Ben Harries
Production Photography
Tristram Kenton
Graphic Design
Corporation Pop
Length
Approx 2 hours & 15 minutes including 1 interval
Premiere
23 September 2010
Presented in association with
Brighton Dome, Sadler’s Wells, La Comète, The Hall for Cornwall, South East Dance, Take Art & Soho Theatre
Funded by
Arts Council England
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Theatrical gold. Piercingly powerful'
THE SPECTATOR
'Moments of rare beauty and inventiveness'
THE TIMES
'Strong images and a propulsive physicality'
LONDONDANCE.COM
'Excellent theatricality. Impressive moments of great poignancy and arresting imagery'
TIME OUT
'Characteristic brand of explosively physical, full-force choreography, layered with text and bold imagery'
Dance Theatre: An Anti-Discursive Illustration of an Embodied Existence
'This article draws together two traditionally polarised and hierarchised modes of theoretical enquiry: the representational, textual theories of traditional academics such as Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault and the phenomenological, somatic approach of the performance-based theorist and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon.'
Read moreIpswich Evening Star / 23 May 2011
'To examine The Holocaust is to look into ourselves. Israeli-born Jasmin Vardimon’s powerful production reminds us of the mechanical and personal brutality of The Final Solution through the prism of civilisation and petty intolerance.'
Read moreOxford Times / 6 Oct 2010
'In this gruelling, moving work, Israeli-born Jasmin Vardimon looks at the Holocaust, and, by flitting backwards and forwards in time, she examines how children reared on survivor stories become ‘memory-candles’… This is a sombre piece of physical theatre rather than dance. It’s a riveting, almost overwhelming work.'
Derby Telegraph / 25 March 2011
'On a superficial level, it is a dance piece of exquisite detail, accuracy and exposition. But underneath the fluidity of movement and pace, there lurks a message of greater intensity.'
The Latest / 24 Sep 2010 ★★★★
'A rare piece of dance to inspire furious and heated debate, perhaps inevitably it was most absolutely moving when absolutely still.'
Read moreTime Out / 18 Nov 2010
'Interview with Jasmin Vardimon
‘I have this fascination to look at the dark side of things,’ says choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, ‘Brutality, darkness, immorality – that’s what intrigues me.’'
Nina Steiger, Associate Director of Soho Theatre & Dramaturg for 7734
'Ways of Looking at 7734
‘One of the main themes of Jasmin Vardimon’s 7734 is “points of view” – the way perspective and identity are linked and how they shift as we adjust the way we look at things. The ensemble change roles from perpetrator to victim as easily as slipping off the jacket of authority, helping us see that, very easily, “we could be next” and it could happen to anyone.’'
Haaretz, Israel News / 4 May 2012
'Though her company has reached the pinnacle of the British dance world, kibbutz-raised choreographer Jasmin Vardimon has brought her company to perform in Israel only once in 15 years. This month, she’ll be back, with a dance that has already raised some political hackles.'
Read moreJerusalem Post / 21 May 2012
'“‘7734’ is a reflection on the capacity of the human nature to produce brutality, how it has been presented in history in many different places, as well as the parallel to brutality, which is man’s powerful urge toward creativity and art,” explained Vardimon in a recent interview with The Jerusalem Post.
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