ONLY WHEN FEW DAYS REMAIN by ilDance

Premiere: May 21th, 2025

Location: Sala della Biblioteca, Castell Sant´Angelo, Rome, Italy

CREDITS:

Concept: Israel Aloni

Choreography: Israel Aloni & cast

Cast: Elias Khanamidi, Jennifer Wallen and Victor Persson joined by local performers

Choreographer assistant: Tomer Giat

Original composition and soundtrack:  Didi Erez

Costume Designer: Amanda Wisselgren

Production Manager: Arunas Giambino Mozuraitis

Creation process: 2025

Production: ilDance

Creation residency host: Regionteater Väst Uddevalla

Photographer: Adey

Duration: 20 minutes (2 performances)

In the distant and the proximate time there are stories and histories which gain or lose meaning, depending on the contexts in which they are reiterated. Incorporating poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti and Alda Merini, Only When Few Days Remain explores senses and sensations of time and how it can be pulled, morphed and transformed through relations and relationships.

ISRAEL ALONI

Israel Aloni is an independent choreographer, pedagog, performer, writer and culture entrepreneur.

Aloni has been developing their movement research practice – The I.Aloni Experience, which also forms the foundation of their teaching practice. There are two continuous engines in this practice: the immensely charged field between the performer and the witness-spectator; and the agency of the dance-performer in the process of making-performing. Aloni resonates with the account of Gilles Deleuze which suggests that an idea informs the medium. When an idea appears, it already informs in what medium it wants to be explored and expressed. Therefore, Aloni continues to experiment with different formats and contexts for both making and presenting their work, this includes: Boys Just Want To Have Fun is a durational piece (6-8 hours in gallery/museum spaces); Within the  European Cooperation project Dancing History(y)ies Aloni developed site specific works for archeological and heritage sites across Europe; In 2025 Aloni is making PASSING (commissioned by Toplocentrala in Sofia, Bulgaria) which is a black box performance where the witnesses-spectators are sat in the round.

Aloni investigates concepts across disciplines, namely philosophy and psychology, often reflecting on themes of ontology, gender and nonconformity. Alongside their choreographic work, they publish texts in different formats including MILON QUIS – words for dance (published by CIRCADIAN, 2025) PUSH: It Will Come Later (published by CIRCADIAN, co-editor & co-author, 2021) On Art and Activism (article published by Howlround, 2020) and What Do You Mean When You Say Gender? (article published by IETM, 2016). More here: https://www.ildance.se/aboutus

CAST

ELIAS KHANAMIDI

Elias is a versatile dancer with a passion for creative expression through exploration. Drawing from a background in diverse dance styles, including such as Breaking, he passionately merges different movement languages to bring a unique perspective to the contemporary dance scene. Elias’s journey in dance has been enriched by collaborative experiences and interactions in different dancing communities.

JENNIFER WALLEN

Jennifer is a freelance dancer and performer. She graduated from The Royal Swedish Ballet School’s contemporary vocational education in 2020. As a part of her final year in school, she was an apprentice with Göteborgsoperans Danskompani during the setting of ‘Naharin’s Virus’ by Ohad Naharin and later with Ballet Preljocaj Junior. Being a former dancer with ilDance and ilYoung, ilDance’s junior company under the artistic direction of Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, Jennifer has had the pleasure of continuing the collaboration with the company since 2021, as well as working with choreographers Asun Noales, Mari Carrasco, Helena Franzén, Joseph Sturdy and Art of Spectra/Peter Svenzon. All these experiences are contributing to Jennifers interest in the realm of the corporeal, spiritual and imagination as well as versatile longevity.

VICTOR PERSSON

Victor Persson is a Swedish contemporary dancer based in Stockholm. He graduated from Balettakademien Stockholm in 2021 and since then he has been working as a freelance performer in Sweden, working with ilYoung, ilDance’s junior company under the artistic direction of Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, as well as choreographers Virpi Pahkinen, Matilda Fleberg, Christina Tingskog to name a few.

CHOREOGRAPHER ASSISTANT

TOMER GIAT

Tomer is a freelance dancer, performer, creator, rehearsal & tour manager. Graduated “Aharon Katzir” High School and the ‘Maslool Bikurey Ha’Itim’ Art Centre, under the management of Neomi Perlov & Offir Dagan. Tomer performed with Idan Cohen Dance Company and Dafi Altabeb Dance Group. He was also assistant to choreographers Roy Assaf, Sharon Vazanna and Idan Sharabi & Dancers (IS&D). Along the past decade Tomer has been working as a freelance dancer, assistant and rehearsal manager, working with numerous creators from the Israeli and Internationally dance scene: Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, Rachel Erdos, Israel Aloni (ILDance), Ravid Abarbanel, Gilad Jerusalmy, Or Marin, Roy Assaf, Odelya Kuperberg and more. Recently, serves as tour manager and head of international relations.

PRODUCTION MANAGER

ARUNAS MOZURAITIS

Arunas is a professional and versatile dance artist. With a foundation rooted in House Dance, honed over years of dedicated training. Endowed with an innate sense of musicality and a boundless capacity for movement, Arunas possesses a distinctive language of expression. His insatiable thirst for knowledge, coupled with passion for physicality, propels him to continually evolve in diverse artistic landscapes.

COSTUME DESIGNER

AMANDA WISSELGREN

Amanda is a costume designer based in Gothenburg, with a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design from the Swedish School of Textiles. She works as a full production designer – from research, design, and sketching to pattern making and garment construction. With a strong focus on dance costumes, she is drawn to the way garments come alive through movement. Her passion lies in how costume design not only supports but enhances the storytelling of a performance and triggers the audience’s imagination.

ORIGINAL COMPOSITION AND SOUNDTRACK

DIDI EREZ

Winner of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television award (the Israeli Oscar) for Best Score of a Feature Film. 4 times nominee in the categories of Best Score of a Documentary and Best Score of T.V series. Erez is a composer for cinema, television, modern dance, theater, documentaries and more. A singer-songwriter who is releasing a third solo album these days. Composed over 100 dance works that participated in many international festivals Lecturer at the academy and presenter of radio programs. For the past 25 years, he has been a working musician – performance artist, scorer for live dance as well as TV and film including documentary, animation and other genres.

PHOTOGRAPHER

ADEY

AdeY is a fine art photographer and performance artist whose work delves into the vulnerability, intimacy, and raw beauty of the human form. Specialising in nude photography, AdeY captures moments of quiet tension and emotional resonance, weaving physicality and storytelling to reveal the unspoken narratives within the body. With a background in contemporary dance, AdeY’s compositions celebrate the interplay of movement and stillness, often framing the human figure in stark, minimalist settings that amplify their emotional impact.

AdeY has exhibited extensively across the globe at prestigious venues such as Fotografi ka (Stockholm, Sweden), CLAMP (New York, USA), Galerie XII (Los Angeles, USA), Chaussee 36 (Berlin, Germany), The Little Black Gallery (London, UK), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, Finland), Fotogalleri Vasli Souza (Oslo, Norway), Falsterbo Photo Art Museum (Sweden), Paris Photo (France), and Unseen (Amsterdam, Netherlands).