If you have ever seen a show at Tmuna Theater, chances are you have seen Matan Preminger’s work. As one of the most prominent lighting designers in the theater/dance/performance world, Matan has been illuminating stages for over a decade. Comfortable both behind the scenes and on stage, Preminger can be found most nights in the control booth of one of many theaters he works in, most often Tmuna. Beyond his role as an actor, lighting technician and designer, Preminger has created three staged works that brought the often-invisible world of lighting technicians and designers into the center of the stage. Read more
I’m about to use a word that parenting experts tend to hate: Etai’s Castle is simply… fun. Fun in the very best, most classic sense of the word. Like strawberry ice cream with sprinkles on a summer day.Read more
At a rhythm that feels both surprising and perfectly measured, poems appear among the colorful canvases hanging on the gallery walls. Their monochrome presence immediately stands apart. These small and intricate signs interrupt the familiar landscape of a painting exhibition and quietly ask the viewer to look differently.Read more
The pace of the work is relentless, transitioning from one rhythm to another, one pattern to the next, one dancer leading switched out for another. The dancers show no signs of listening for cues. Instead, they appear telepathically connected, pivoting and exchanging material with uncanny precision. Improvisational impulses are woven into a tightly organized, ever-shifting and unpredictable structure.Read more
In this work, Dar demonstrates that good dance may turn its head backward, like Orpheus, but above all it surrenders itself to the present in every lifting of a dancer’s leg and every tossing of her head. It recognizes that “the pure present is the invisible progress of the past gnawing into the future. The truth is that every sensation is already memory,” as philosopher Henri Bergson wrote.Read more
THE LAND IS A BODY BEING DISMEMBERED
HOLDING THE WEIGHT OF ORIGINAL SINS THAT’VE MUTATED THROUGHOUT GENERATIONS
EACH ITERATION REFINING ITS APPARATUS AROUND THOSE STILL LIVINGRead more
Created in response to ‘Barricades’ by Ram Loevy.Read more
Even cities need dramaturgy, and of all the cities in the world, I believe Jaffa has the first claim to receiving devoted dramaturgical care. Among all the commentators, thinkers, journalists, influencers, documentary filmmakers, project entrepreneurs, investors, green investors and their opponents, there should be at least one dramaturg, for God’s sake.Read more
Rewatching Ram Loevy’s “Sakhnin, My Life” brought back three moments I experienced alongside Arab Israeli creators and made me understand something that I spent years allowing myself not to fully feel.Read more
To your credit, Ahmad Habibi,
you figured it out way back then.
By ’67, you already knew that between the river and the sea, the best thing to be –
is Jewish.
And democratic.
But Jewish first.
Not Jewish – no democracy.Read more