S-E-D // Sharon Eyal Into The Hairy
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Deep Into the Hairy… Dirty and gentle. Broken. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Deeper. Stronger. Weaker. Sadder. More alone. Hole.
Diamond shining off alone. Mustn’t be night. Skies and heart.
My love chapter 245. I LovE you. My Harry……..
Into The Hairy created by Sharon Eyal for S-E-D Dance Company collaborating with London-based artist, producer and composer Koreless. This creation is the first full-length collaboration of Sharon Eyal with Koreless, who created the original soundtrack for the piece. An expanded version of the production, created with NDT premiered in the Netherlands earlier this year and won the Dutch Swan for best dance performance 2025.
About Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar
Sharon Eyal (b. 1971, Jerusalem) danced with the Batsheva Dance Company between 1990 and 2008 and started choreographing within the framework of the company’s Batsheva Dancers Create project. Eyal served as Associate Artistic Director for Batsheva from 2003–04, and as a House Choreographer for the company from 2005–12.
In 2005, she partnered with Gai Behar (b. 1977, Tel Aviv) – who shaped the Tel Aviv nightlife scene as party producer and curator of multidisciplinary art events from 1999–2005 – and Behar has collaborated on Eyal’s creations ever since. In 2013, Eyal and Behar launched their dance company. Its repertoire is co-produced with some of the leading dance venues around the globe.
Alongside their work with S-E-D, Eyal and Behar create commissioned pieces for external companies, including the Paris Opera, Nederlands Dans Theater, Staatsballett Berlin, the Royal Swedish Ballet and the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and more. Their creations received several prestigious awards such as the German Theater Prize DER FAUST (2018) and the prestigious FEDORA VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2017.
Since August 2022, S-E-D is a registered non-profit French Association, basing its activity in France.
Eyal and Behar frequently collaborate with major names outside of the traditional dance world. They worked on various fashion shows with Christian Dior Couture and Maria Grazia Chiuri, developed projects with the music label YOUNG, and participated on the album I Am Easy To Find by The National and Mike Milles with Eyal dancing in the music videos for the songs Hairpin Turns and Hey Rosey, as well as performing live for the opening concert of their international tour at the L’Olympia in Paris.
In 2025, Sharon Eyal was nominated as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, following her nomination as Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2023.
In 2025, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar were chosen as the first artists-in-residence for Palais de Tokyo’s new program, SYMBIOSIS, a year-long residency.
About Koreless
Koreless is the moniker of Welsh artist, producer, composer and performer Lewis Roberts. As Koreless he has released several EPs, including the genre-defying Yugen and TT/Love, completed remixes for Caribou and Perfume Genius, and performed his standout solo live show around the world (inc. Warehouse Project, C2C, MUTEK, Sonar and Dimensions festivals). In 2021 he released his debut album, Agor, to critical acclaim on Young Recordings.
About Alon Cohen
Lead light designer & technical director: Alon Cohen, born in Jerusalem 1970, is a lighting designer, programmer, technical director and consultant. Got involved already as a teenager in stage and performing arts under his father, a crew member at the local Jerusalem Theatre and eventually got drawn to the trade. Cohen started as a lighting programmer in the early 1990’s, specializing in automated lighting. The famous lighting designer Avi Yona (Bambi) Bueno then became his mentor and most important influence. Fascinated by lighting control systems, inspired by Pink Floyd’s 1994 live concert and designer Marc Brickman, Cohen applied design works for the local National Theater (Habimah), beat-group Mayumana, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, commercial or corporate events -locally and internationally. He also worked with local choreographers such as Yasmeen Godder and Inbal Pinto, teaching and instructing lighting students, and repeatedly as Bambi’s head programmer and assistant.
Today Cohen is working with and designing mostly for Sharon Eyal’s L-E-V Dance, along with other companies such as recently for Germany’s Tanz Mainz, Royal Opera Stockholm, Royal Opera Gothenburg and Nederlands Dans Theater.
Artistic Team & Credits
Choreography Sharon Eyal
Co-Creator Gai Behar
Original Music Koreless
Costumes Maria Grazia Chiuri – Christian Dior Couture
Lighting Design Alon Cohen
Makeup & Jewellery Design Noa Eyal Behar
Dancers Darren Devaney, Juan Gil, Alice Godfrey, Johnny McMillan, Keren Lurie Pardes, Nitzan Ressler, Héloïse Jocqueviel, Gregory Lau
S-E-D crew
Artist Directors Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar
Company Director Roy Bedarshi
S&G Manager Maya Manor
Company Manager Maelle Tournadre
Technical Director Alon Cohen
Technicians Oren Elimelech, Hillel Sharp, Alon Tavori
Backstage Manager Noa Eyal Behar
Tour Manager Magdalena Bukowiec
S&G PA Yona Mazigh
Administration and Production Assistant Celia Echeverria
Co-Producers Montpellier Danse Festival, La Villette – Paris, Salzburger Festspiele – Austria, Sadler’s Wells – London, Julidans – Amsterdam, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi – Italy, MART Foundation – New York, Dampfzentrale, Bern, deSingel, Antwerpen, Théâtre Sénart, Scène nationale.
With the support of the French Ministry of Culture – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, Département de Seine-et-Marne and the support of Orsolina 28 Art Foundation, Italy.
Parts of the creation were originally created in the frame of THIS IS NOT A LOVE SHOW commissioned by LAS (Light Art Space), January 2022 at Kraftwerk Berlin.
S-E-D is supported by Fondation BNP Paribas.
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