The inter-disciplinarian artist Merav Ben-David wanders through the memory-basements of far-flung towns and retrieves forgotten Hebrew folk songs. The songs come back to life in an imaginary classroom wherein shtetl-type Hebrew meets scientific jargon, states of terror encounter pastoral hallucinations, and sweet childhood songs mix with poetic desperation and black humor. With these songs, the […]
O.S.L.O is a corporeal show that meets a spectator’s body, a reading event that meets the eye, an auditory show that meets the ear, and a history show that meets the human. O.S.L.O is a historical dance work in snow and storm. It is chronicles, movements, and noises that address the Israeli-Palestinian political narrative and […]
Snow falls silently and covers the stage. The storm takes over and ignores the sun that shines outside. Beit Hasefer Lemezeg Avir has its own time and climate. The School of Weathers: Two different pieces in one day, within the same space, and under the same stormy conditions | Non-Tropo is a show designed for children […]
A science-fiction performance which provides a new and different view of the way we understand the past and imagine the future. ‘Worlds – a Canaan-Futuristic Song Cycle’ is a performance of images and thoughts, looking anew at the past and re-imagining a future: a levantine, middle-eastern, Mediterranean, sweaty, radical, feminist, transgressive, poetic, refusing closure, non-western, non-Jewish, […]
Exhausted by the attempt to live his life, lonesome and naked, he falls asleep under a tree, among leftovers and trash that had been emitted by the soul itself. In this lost paradise, he may turn out to be the first man or the last man… Without any justification that could be reconciled with sound […]
At the beginning, there are clues. A hammer of massive proportions. A huge Succah resembling a transparent elevator, billowing smoke. A stairway rising skyward, leading nowhere. Nava Frenkel is an artist who combines clues. She likes to throw her audience into chaos, and to then rescue it with humor and sophistication. She doesn’t want you to […]
Buckets of salt are poured on the floor. Tiny creatures build roads and pathways across a sea of white. A small hand pops up among the particles of salt, trying to cross the hill. The camera follows it, and projects its escape on a screen. Using a movie camera, a Puppet, and half a ton […]
After sixteen years at sea, Gulliver returns home and closes himself up in his room. He refuses to see other humans and engages in conversation with two horses that he bought, contemplating the nature of humankind. At the end of five years of isolation, he has a conversation with his wife for the first time, wherein […]
“The show ‘I Look After’ is a position statement of a single artist. In it, I return to old images that once I had composed and change their form. Thus, I provide nostalgia with a role that is creative, critical, and lively, and I make it face forward. Nostalgia as potential.” This one-woman-show, performed by […]
She calls me to come to the stage and sit at a table beside her, asking me to choose a drawer and take something from it. Her penetrating gaze pulls me out of the audience completely: it is only her and me now. “My ex-stepmother in law is a renowned sculptor in Israel and abroad. […]
