CREATION, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE:
Yasmeen Godder
DRAMATURGY, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR:
Nir Vidan
“PRACTICING EMPATHY” PROJECT DRAMATURGE:
Monica Gillette
OBJECTS:
Gili Avissar
CONSTRUCTION DESIGN:
Gili Godiano
LIGHT DESIGN:
Tamar Orr
MUSIC:
Beating Stick: Track 4 from the album Stick Music by Clogs, složil Padma Newsome, aranžmá Padma Newsome, interpret Jennifer Choi, Erik Friedlander, Bryce Dessner, Padma Newsome. Asaf Avidan - Different Pulses. Lior Pinsky - Star Glass
COSTUME DESIGNER:
Shirley Itzik
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Tamar Lamm
PRODUCTION MANAGER:
Omer Alsheich
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER:
Zohar Eshel-Acco
PREMIERE:
July 2021, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
DURATION:
70 min
AGE:
Adults
A production by Yasmeen Godder Company and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. A work commissioned by the festival Frankfurter Positionen 2021, an initiative of the BHFBank Foundation. Supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
The production was supported by the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs, the general consulate of Germany, and Japan.
Can empathy be learned? Like the rest of the world, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the famous Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder into isolation. And so the first ever solo in her twenty-five-year career was born. The third part of the Practicing Empathy project is a personal, intimate experience of a period of limitation, solitude and loss of control, in which through her body and performative art she explores not only how to connect more deeply with others, but also with herself.
The performance will be followed by an after talk with the creators.
Yasmeen Godder was born in Jerusalem and moved to the USA in 1984 with her family, where she studied at New York University and then worked as an independent choreographer in New York. In 1999, she presented her work Aleena's Wall in Tel - Aviv, and based on its success, she was invited to the “Curtain Up Festival”, Israel's leading event for independent creators. Subsequently, she founded her own troupe. She is the author of twenty full-length plays that have been presented in Israel and around the world and won many prestigious awards. In addition, she founded the community initiative “Moving Communities”, working among others with Parkinson's and “Na’ot Ma’Ba’ad”- a weekly meeting for Arabic and Jewish women through dance in Jaffa. Since 2019, he has been engaged in the Practicing Empathy research project, which explores empathy, resulting in three works: Practicing Empathy #1, #2by2 and solo #3.
