An experimental collaboration between choreographer and director Lia Eshel and musician Maxim Turbo as part of the Out-Of-Office series of events. It presents two separate performances alongside a shared segment.

Maxim Turbo is a sound artist and performer. Using a mixer, his voice, pedals, and a trumpet, he creates performances that are both physically expressive and emotionally charged.  His stage work blends original compositions with covers of folk songs, merging local and Jewish traditions with global esoterica. Turbo’s research is both performative and musical, spontaneous yet systematic, shaping itself through live improvisation.

Lia Eshel creates various characters that exist within constant individual struggles. In her work, simple and complex actions carry the same emotional weight. Even when performers receive a written script, the words often dissolve into murmurs, leaving expressive and exaggerated gestures as their main form of communication. These gestures gradually evolve into full-bodied movements, positioning her practice at the intersection of theater and dance. 

In Screamers, Eshel explores choreographies of silent screams of fear, anger, and freezes. The performers take turns screaming into a microphone while navigating themselves amongst group dynamics. Through repetition, like a word uttered again and again until emptied of meaning, their expressions become distorted, abstracted, and transformed into an ongoing state of existence.

Screamers is an original performance by Lia Eshel; performed and co-created by Maya Schiff, Amit Zaratsky, Avigail Rose, Hillel Weinstein, and Eden Shitonweis. The performance is supported by the Rabinovich Foundation.

Duration: 50 min.

Admission: 60₪
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Left to right: Maxim Turbo; Lia Eshel, Fantastic it is, School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem, 2023. Photo: Amit Mann.