Aleph

In a diorama of an abstract desert, a young girl is speaking her mother tongue – Hebrew. Her words sound like music, as she describes the place she calls home: it’s hot there, and full of history.  In Aleph, artist Ana Wild offers the learning of a new language to her audience. Starting with simple […]

Kairos

Kairos combine fashion, Opera, dance, experimental music and multimedia. inspired by the book ‘Zeros and Ones’ (1997) by the theorist Sadie Plant, the project brings together artists from varied artistic sources: Opera, Performance Art, and the fashion house Baudicca. these artistic worlds create together choreographic sequences and electronic and experimental compositions. in the last few […]

WACKELKONTAKT: REBIRTHING

The audiovisual show from the ephemeral production house Excessive Productions, which has unraveled eye tissue throughout Europe, imposed post-epileptic terror on the space of Zik. WACKELKONTAKT deconstruct their selfhood – and together with artist of illusions and characters Dana Tkach, transported the audience into a delightful, triggering, disturbing, and exhilarating sensory experience, introducing questions concerning the link between […]

Voice of the Word 2015

In its 15thyear, the “Voice of the Word” festival, in memory of Mario Kotliar, explored the relationship between textual and performance arts. The festival took place in a unique space, a former television studio, in the bowels of the Jerusalem Theatre. When television burst into modern homes back in the 1960s, it brought public discourse […]

Voice of the Word 2016 – Windows

During 3 winter nights display windows in the center of Jerusalem transformed into temporary stages, hosting various artists. a collection of performances and installations was adopted to sites, that normally function as a shoe shop, travel agency or a hairdressing salon…Windows Festival was planed as a walking path that crosses sites and disciplines: Theatre, performance […]

Autumn Cult 2017

The first Autumn Cult Festival, took place in October 2017, simultaneously and in collaboration with the School of Visual Theatre’s International Performance Conference. Together, the two events marked the beginning of both the season and the academic year. New productions by young artists were presented during the Cult, alongside productions by veteran artists and international […]

Monkeys

A mechanical jungle, complex and full of life, awaits onstage. The gaze that tries to penetrate the stage meets dozens of eyes that are staring back from a darkness that is crowded with machines, devices, lights, and whispers. Three people and nine robotic monkeys share one stage: after five years of meticulous manual building, the […]