An open rehearsal for a new work by Michal Samama towards a premiere at Habait Theatre, followed by an artist talk.

“Ever since I was a child, I knew love held supreme value”.

Six performers ponder current reality through a trip back in time and wandering memories: Through movement, voice, language, and song, we return to our adolescent years as a private, national, and artistic experience. We conjure the days of youth and are washed over by quotes, imperatives, desires, external voices, music, laughter, dance classes, party flashes, fragments of ideals, shatters of violence and pain, truth, and falsehoods.

Out of this wandering emerge unity and loneliness, gentleness and coarseness, listening and blindness, cynicism and naivety in the Holy Land.

By: Michal Samama

Co-creators and Performers: Karmit Burian, Keren Carmon, Shlomit Fundaminsky, Dor Frank, Layil Goren, and Kim Teitelbaum.

The work was created as part of the "From Studio to Stage" program, a collaboration between the CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo and Habait Theatre.

The work was supported by the Pais Council for the Culture and Arts, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Tel Aviv, the Choreographers Association, and the Ministry of Culture.

Michal Samama is a choreographer and performer. She creates works at the intersection of dance, theater, and the visual arts, moving between the stage, the gallery, and the public space. In recent years, she exhibited her artwork at the Israel Festival, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Batsheva Hosts’, 'Tel Aviv Dance Festival', ‘Kelim' Choreography Center, International Exposure, International Dance Week, Love Art-Make Art, The Center for Digital Art Holon, Tmuna Theater. In past years Samama presented her work at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Solo show), Sommer Gallery, Manofim Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival, Curtain Up festivals, Intimadance Festivals, Diver Festivals, and many more. Her work was presented in numerous spaces in New York and Chicago, including: The Chocolate Factory Theater, Judson Church, New York Live Arts, Aspect Ratio Gallery, EXPO CHICAGO, 6018 North. Samama received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

The rehearsal and talk will be held in Hebrew.

This work is intended for ages 14 and up. 

Duration: Approx 75 min.

Admission: 40 ILS

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Image: from the rehearsals at the CCA. Photo: Michal Samama