Kids is a staged documentation of sorts of the death of Liu’s mother. Throughout the piece, recorded conversations between Liu and his late mother are played. These talks touch on her impending death, on memory and on family history. Like life, they don’t always follow a clear path.
The audience, though illuminated, were in no way motivated to do anything. To participate in something, one must act. Here there was no action, only the clarification and emphasis on our inactivity.Read more
ובתוך כל האידיליה הזאת בה רקדנית נהפכת לציפור דרור
יפייפיה וענוגה
מתחיל מופע אחר לגמריי.
Maybe what we’re really asking of our audience is, hey, can you hold this for a second? Just as I often ask my husband to hold my bag when I run to the washroom or a friend to grab my jacket while I search for my wallet. Can you hold this?Read more
I’m very different in normal life. I feel the same inside but I present something else, I come out as something else. In real life I’m very hesitant, unconfident and on stage I’m not. On stage, I lose it.Read more
I am grateful to have differentiated, through this experience, between criticizing (Bikoret in Hebrew) and visiting (Bikoor). Neither good or bad, I allow my thoughts and feelings to manifest here in the context of being a visitor.
Shira and Anat Amrani took the beauty and virtuosity of two adamantly non-European forms – belly-dancing and Yemenite folk dance – and stripped them back of decoration, historicity and cultural context. They used what was left to craft a truly brilliant piece of contemporary performanceRead more
Rising is not the fanciest or most virtuosic piece, it doesn’t have dazzling costumes, props or music. It doesn’t want to impress you, shake you, manipulate you. It isn’t trying to be something. It simply is. And what it is is so much.Read more
*english follows מספר מחשבות שעלו לי תוך כדי הצפייה במופע מולטי/ענת כ”ץ וארז מעין מעניין לדעת כמה מופעים שעלו כאן כותבים בברושור / פלאייר / דף ערב שלהם את צמד המילים “ניסוי בימתי”. וכמה מהם באמת מבצעים ניסוי כנה על עצמם וקהלם. במולטי, גם אם לא כתוב כך במפורש, היתה בהחלט תחושה של סיור במעבדה.Read more
Frank sexuality and bold gender politics also predominated in so much of the work, as if another form of resistance to social and political conservatism. Read more