Tamar Zehava Tabori
About the Artist
Tamar Zehava Tabori is an emerging dance and video artist. She received a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in Montreal. She has created and performed works for the stage and the screen across Canada, and has received commissions for both production and instruction roles. Tamar’s experimental short films weave together convergent streams of dance and media in the realization of cohesive performances, and have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide. Her video works have been installed as exhibitions on public outdoor screens, including Fountain Street Gallery in partnership with Boston Centre for the Arts, and at Antimatter [Media Arts] Festival in Victoria, BC. Merging together different practices has allowed her to continue reaching beyond her technical limitations, and work with artists across disciplines. These creative unions generate conversations between art forms, rather than about art, and this principle of ongoing exchange is a prominent through-line of Tamar’s projects.
She has recently completed a year as the Associate Artist for Company 605, and is the Associate Artistic Director at F-O-R-M. She maintains an active engagement with the dance community, locally, nationally, and internationally, using digital platforms as sites of creative exchange and connectivity.
Out-of-Body-Places, Out-of-Body-Selves, by Tamar Zehava Tabori
Out-of-Body-Places, Out-of-Body-Selves
With our lives completely intertwined with digital and screen based realities, how does our physical body move within these spaces? How does it experience shifting environments? As a way to better understand ourselves as malleable material, Out-of-Body-Places, Out-of-Body-Selves is a digital video work where a figure moves beyond its normal realities, exploring the boundary between what is ‘real’ and what can be imagined. Linked by movement and style, the work explores a visual interplay on how we take ourselves through many spaces, physically and digitally. We are no longer just in one place, and wherever we are, our body as we know it isn’t always present.
