Walking On Two by Mica Kupfer

Empty what you can to sharpen your focus and hear better. Now the body can be better tamed, the existing forms can be rearranged.

The starting point is simple: at the center is a body that wants to move. The vocabulary of dance expression and reflection on the process is created through construction and deconstruction, through the invention of mechanisms for generating movement, through manipulation and variation, and is inspired by the music.

The solo reflects the attempt to interrupt and play with the body's regular physical and imaginary logic in order to find and concretize its poetic capacity.

By and with: Mica Kupfer

Dramaturgical advice: Menachem Goldenberg

Musical accompaniment: Yaniv Hayoun

World premiere at the Kelim Festival 2023 under the artistic direction of Ayala Frenkel and Nataly Zukerman.

Supported by the Fund for Independent Creators, the Mifal Hapais Foundation for the Arts, the Rabinovich Foundation and the Intimadance Festival at the Tmuna Theatre.

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Practicing Empathy #3 by Yasmeen Godder

How do we connect to ourselves and to others? Yasmeen Godder has been exploring this fundamental question with her project 'Practicing Empathy' since 2019. So far, she has created three different performative shows in which she explores empathy as a fundamental ability to grasp complex relationships and deal with challenges. The focus is on the act of practicing in a performative setting to discover new ways of opening up and connecting with other people.

For the third part of her series, Yasmeen Godder has developed a solo for herself for the first time in her 25-year career. The piece is very physical, an intimate narrative in which she traces her work on the project through the challenges of the pandemic. What is the importance of sensitivity to oneself in the face of restriction, loss of control and isolation? The solo resembles a profound inner discovery: while constantly developing survival mechanisms, her dance unfolds in a dizzying way, recalling her own physical resources and finally finding a place of safety and connection.

By and with Yasmeen Godder

Sponsored and supported by Mousonturm Frankfurt/ Main, YGC, Hazira, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Mandel Foundation.