Israel’s L-E-V Dance Company was formed in 2013 by choreographer Sharon Eyal (a former dancer and much admired choreographer with Batsheva Dance Company) and Gai Behar, a Tel Aviv-based curator of multi-disciplinary events (and Eyal’s off-stage partner) with whom she has been collaborating since 2006.

L-E-V is currently in Sydney for a very short season at the Sydney Opera House, which is presenting two of its works under the umbrella title of Love Cycle – OCD Love, which opened last night, and Love Chapter 2, which has its first performance tonight. The pieces are not directly related nor were they originally created to be seen together, so you don’t need to see both, but they complement each other. As Eyal told Limelight: “They are from the same mother but really different children.”

OCD Love. Photographs © Prudence Upton

OCD Love premiered in 2016 and came to the Adelaide Festival in 2017. It was inspired by a poem called OCD by American slam poet Neil Hilborn, which became a viral sensation on YouTube. Running just under three minutes, the poem charts an unusual love story between a young woman and a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Intially she is...