Danny
Tavori
Portfolio:
Performance
site specific & theaters
AMOW is a contemporary circus piece built around a suspended structure made of domestic furniture. It reacts in real time to the performer’s weight, shifting between balance and collapse. The work explores the fragility of “home” as both a physical and emotional space.
Fusing scenography with apparatus, AMOW uses rigging mechanics, aerial movement, and symbolic materials to create a living environment. It challenges the boundaries between circus, installation, and performance.
60 minute performance.
Theaters or site specific.
Installations
Between Walls is an installation series that gives household objects
[especially furniture] a new poetic presence. Born from the research process of AMOW, these immersive works explore how domestic items can hold agency and meaning through composition and interaction.
Using custom rigging, light, and sound design, the installations transform spaces into theatrical environments. Built mainly from locally sourced or donated furniture, they can exist as standalone artworks or integrate into performances and public events.
Ongoing
Site specific
Hanging Roots
Performance
"Hanging Roots" is a contemporary circus and dance performance that explores the disassociation of the human body from nature. Over the course of a decade, Tavori adapted his body to being suspended above the ground, and his encounter with the suspended orange tree of Jaffa [by Ran Morin] led him to change his approach to his own practice.
Tavori's creation offers an alternative perspective to traditional Chinese acrobatics, driven by his research on organic forms within challenging environments. His embodiment of the cotton and nylon straps suggests the natural choreography of suspension by hands or hair. Inspired by Butoh, Tavori weaves the delicate story his isolated body can tell. His effort and sensations of resemblance to the tree, with roots off the ground and insistence on growth despite rigid conditions, culminated in the completion of "Hanging Roots."
20 minutes
indoor/outdoor
circus/dance/butoh
Premiered in JISDF 23
Bdy.frqncy.proj
Performance/research
Bdy.frqncy.proj began as a research project experimenting work with movement sensors that uses code in unique poetic ways.
This project was presented in various contexts, including TLV dance festival and Acre Festival for fringe theater
Circus over the abyss
Performance
#OtherCircus - Circus over the Abyss was a mediation project that aimed to shift the conversation around circus in Israel by bringing contemporary artistic perspectives to the forefront. Built through an open call, it invited circus artists to explore what lies beneath the surface of their practice, its desires, contradictions, labor, and personal narratives—using circus as a medium for reflection rather than spectacle.
Created in collaboration with Bascula, the project combined artistic direction, dramaturgy, and community engagement. Each act was shaped through individual meetings and an intensive rehearsal process, forming a collective platform for stories rarely seen on local stages. The event reached a wide audience and directed all proceeds to Bascula, supporting the venue during a period when it was at risk of closure
Participated in:
Aerial rope and physical theater
Rigging design and outside eye
Aerial straps, dance and physical theater
Special events