Tension is constructed as an organism becoming and creating a space where three dimensions are entangled and bound together in an inseparable way; a trio consisting of body, gaze and light. In this triangular mechanism, the body is present as matter and image, the gaze operates by using the camera which observes the body illuminated […]
Lilla Roma Weisselberg’s Wilderness is a dance-performance set in a vast and fraught landscape view.A stage set up on a world, on a mountain top, inside a cave, at the bottom of the sea, between heaven and earth. A gust of wind blows through the show, breathing life into the expansive and desolate landscape. The void […]
Documentary theater After becoming a mother, the artist Galia Einey recorded life for two years. She recorded everything: the changing relationship and the growing child, the music at bedtime, words said in living room conversations, and words left unspoken in the silences. She pressed record, stop, and record again, as an act of reaching out […]
Embodied topography A geological fracture is a long, narrow crevice in the earth’s crust, caused by internal forces extending along the length of a deep fault line. A form of scar that rises to the surface in a constant but concealed motion, making it difficult to perceive through human senses. The ground splits, but the […]
Achinoam Mendelsohn’s debut work premiered in 2022 at the Akko fringe theatre festival, where it won the best play and directing award. Having entered our repertoire, we are thrilled and excited to open a new year with a festive first performance in Hazira Theatre, Jerusalem. In her poetic horror ritual, Mendelson oscillates between the sensual-pagan […]
After the heartbreaking opening of 2022’s Autumn Cult festival, Nurit Dreamer returns with the promise that you will never walk alone. It is the justice league champions’ team, a derby of thoughts and souls. Always know that whether you win or lose, “you’ll never walk alone.” Dreamer has brought together Jerusalem women of different ages and backgrounds […]
Through a rough, un-hierarchical encounter between light, sound, body and material – a fictional, synthetic nature is being built, aspiring to function as a “visual drone”, a stethoscope which listens to the pulse of a certain living environment. This is a vague gaze upon an obscure happening which holds an invitation: to establish a new […]
On a big stage comprised of small pieces, labors a gang of a rebellious wild type. They carry a small abandoned world, and wear it like jewelry. They tens their muscles to balance themselves in a hastily-made reality. Ready for action, they use the wall (that pretends to be the floor) to launch themselves into […]
“All about eve” is a collaboration between director Ariel Efraim Ashbel, performer Efrat Aviv and light artist Omer Sheizaf. In a space which resembles a combination of a gym, a children’s playground and a torture chamber, a performer is negotiating different ideas of performing, ranging from the entertaining to the sculptural, activating the space being activated […]
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 […]
