Mitbarberot

Mitbarberot is a work by the Israeli duo Michal Herman & Anat Grigorio, independent artists with many years of dance experience. In this piece, both creators also appear as performers. It is a deeply liberating performance, filled with relaxed, unrestrained female energy.
The title Mitbarberot can be loosely translated from Hebrew as “to lose one’s way along the journey.” In the performance, the artists seek to surrender control and let go of ambition, effort, and expectation. Through humour and the ability to fully embrace the present moment, the two dancers discover new facets of themselves and support one another along a fragile, shifting path—without losing lightness or perspective.
The entire work is infused with creativity, playful looseness, and a sense of wildness. The audience is never bored for a moment—the performance continuously transforms alongside the musical accompaniment, while the stage itself remains simple, free of unnecessary elements or effects.
The choreographic language reveals precise craftsmanship grounded in rich dance experience and a high technical level. The work explores movement cycles, build-up and release, as well as the absurdity of endlessly escalating elements that create subtle tension and space for humour. Inventiveness is a defining quality of the piece, with playful structures and elements of contact improvisation woven throughout.
The performers’ presence is multi-layered—at once raw and fluid, always authentic and convincing.
Mitbarberot carries an almost therapeutic quality. It captivates through its honest immediacy, liberates, and invites the letting go of postures, effort, and attachments—and it is precisely through this openness that it reveals the strength of perspective, resilience, and the ability to breathe again.

Warning: The performance contains spoken language and partial nudity. 

Michal Herman and Anat Grigorio are independent Israeli artists with many years of experience, collaborating since 2019. Their works have been presented at major festivals in Israel and internationally, including Mitbarberot (2021), Over and Over Again (2022), and Keep It Running (2025). Both are members of the Israeli Choreographers’ Association and bring strong professional backgrounds in contemporary dance, including Michal’s experience with the Batsheva Ensemble.

Michal Herman
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Anat Grigorio
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Čo keby?

What if… is an original dance performance for three performers that delves into the realm of hypotheses – a world of possibilities, alternative paths and unrealised possibilities. At its core lies the movement between choice and fate: how far can the body go when, in a single moment, decision, chance and impulse converge?

The gentle flow of the music creates an environment in which the three performers become a triangle of energy. At times they exist as three separate beings; at others they merge into a single whole. The body comes into conflict with its own tendencies – to hesitate, to react quickly, to change direction, to move away or draw closer. The audience follows lines of movement that emerge from the smallest impulses and gradually unfold into larger patterns: from synchrony to fragmentation, from subtlety to confrontation. The performance uses no set or props – the space remains clean, open and transparent. It is precisely this clarity that allows the performers’ bodies, their mutual responses and the tension between them to stand out. What if… creates a transparent map of relationships, in which each step can become the beginning of a new reality.

The performance is also an image of the human inner world, constantly balancing between what is and what could be. It is a physical meditation on the possibility of change and the power of the moment in which we decide – or allow others to decide for us.

Michaela Šeligová was born on 1 September 1992 in Banská Bystrica. She is a graduate of the J. L. Bella Conservatory and of the Faculty of Music and Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she specialised in the didactics of modern dance. She teaches at the J. L. Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica and leads its student ensemble. She is a member and co-founder of tanC o.z.

Beyond tanC, she has been involved in a number of dance projects, including productions at the Slovak National Theatre (Dobrodružstvo pri obžinkoch, Carmen a la Gypsy Devils, Čert a Káča), the Andrej Bagar Theatre (Povolanie pápež), and in Prague (Peter a Lucia). She has also been a long-standing performer at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch.

“…my freedom begins in my body – I need to move, to touch and to feel; this is where my creativity originates…”

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