Sharon Eyal (France) | S-E-D Dance Company

Genre: Contemporary Dance
World Premiere: Ruhrtriennale – Festival der Künste, Germany, September 2025
Baku Presentation: As part of BIAF 2025

Delay the Sadness is the newest creation by Sharon Eyal, made exclusively for her company S-E-D (Sharon Eyal Dance), founded in France in 2023. This is the company’s second production, following the award-winning success of the musical Into the Hairy.

Immersed in universal and intimate themes of memory, grief, and continuity of life, this choreography unfolds like an emotional poem — about motherhood, breath, dance, and dreams. The original score is composed by Josef Laimon, with lighting by long-time collaborator Alon Cohen.

Co-produced by leading European festivals, the work will be shown at BIAF directly following its world premiere.

Artistic team:

• Choreography: Sharon Eyal
• Co-creator: Gai Behar
• Music: Josef Laimon
• Lighting: Alon Cohen
• Performers: Darren Devaney, Juan Gil, Alice Godfrey, Johnny McMillan and others
• Based in France, the company is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Fondation BNP Paribas.

About the creators:
Sharon Eyal is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary dance, a former soloist and resident choreographer with Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. Since 2005, she has collaborated with producer and artist Gai Behar, creating numerous works for the Paris Opera Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, NDT, and more.

The duo has received:

• DER FAUST Prize (Germany, 2018)
• FEDORA VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet (2017)
• Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (2023)

They are also known for collaborations with Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Jamie xx, Es Devlin, Harley Weir, and major galleries such as Hauser & Wirth and Hannah Barry. In 2025, they became the first artists-in-residence of the SYMBIOSIS program at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.