Leave Me in the Dark is a staged musical experience that invites an encounter with uncertainty, sadness, wonder, and the poetic possibilities of the imagination. The performance takes place entirely in darkness: the audience sits at the center of the stage, surrounded by a unique multi-channel speaker system. The grasp of space and time slips away, making room for a journey where one meets both sound and oneself.
The sonoric world becomes the gateway into dwelling within the unknown. Sound and text awaken in a three-dimensional space, leading to an inner experience that moves between extremes: like the touch of a blade of grass on one hand, and the roar of an airplane engine on the other. Wonder emerges from the mysterious, from the code hidden within the sounds themselves, sounds that ask only to be heard.
The performance draws inspiration from the writings of Argentine poet and author Jorge Luis Borges: although he became blind, he discovered that words remained within him, and that there is richness in imagination when sight is diminished. In the spirit of Daoist thought, Leave Me in the Dark calls for a return to an “unshaped” state, a block of wood not yet carved, where one can be everything, without being anything at all. The piece is born of reflection on human existence, on helplessness in the face of life’s larger events, and on the desire to find meaning in small, fleeting, personal moments.
Lior Pinsky is a creator working across sound and stage. Over the years he has been active in many fields: as a sound artist, musician, dramaturg, performer, and visual artist. As a musician, he has released eight studio albums with various labels, including Full Body Massage Records (Germany) and saga.domain (Netherlands/Germany). He has composed and designed soundtracks for dance, performance, and theatre works by choreographers and directors such as Yasmeen Godder, Nir Vidan, Mica Kupfer, Ari Teperberg, Tamar Oosterhoff, Sara Siegel, and Nurit & Anat Dreamer. His visual works range from kinetic sound installations to conceptual pieces, exhibited over the years in galleries and museums including Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv and the Israel Museum.
He teaches sound and soundtrack design at the School of Visual Theatre.
Due to the unique conditions of listening and viewing, seating is extremely limited. Show duration: About 60 minutes.
