Call to Action incubator in Kelim center is an annual education program for professional choreographers, aimed to develop profound theoretical and practical knowledge regarding working with performers with various abilities and backgrounds including youth, seniors and people with disabilities. The program aims to bring forth an in-depth change in the choreography and contemporary dance fields in Israel, and develop it into a socially inclusive and artistically innovative field, incorporating diversified groups, abilities, aesthetic agendas and images. The program advances the professionalization and development of this kind of artistic practices in Israel, working in tandem with worldwide trends in the field while promoting the breaking of existing preconceptions and hierarchies.
As part of Kelim festival this year, the artists of Call to Action program will present expositions of their learning and creation processes which were created as part of or influenced by the program. They will discuss their artistic practices which involve people from the different communities and open a path to new, more inclusive and preconceptions-breaking thinking in the dance field. These meetings will be interlaced in the festival alongside the premiers of the artists in residence and the students of the bi-annual program for choreography, out of an organic vision connecting between the various communities who work, create and study in Kelim.
Call to Action has operated in Kelim center since 2022, and since 2023 under the direction of Nataly Zuckerman and in cooperation between Kelim center for choreography and the Peis foundation.
As a response to events in her life, the artist Sofia chooses her family; her children, her partner, as the collaborators for her next piece. In the exposition, she will talk about the path that has led her to this moment, as an artist and as a mother, about the future project she imagines, and on the experience of learning in the incubator as a space of thinking, nesting, searching and recalculating one’s route.
About the artist:
Sofia Krantz is a choreographer and dancer based in Jerusalem. She holds a master's degree in composition and a BA degree in dance performance and teaching from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. She is the winner of the Sharett foundation award for choreography of 2010. Sofia studied and worked in several prestigious international projects, among them 'Liceu' in Barcelona, Spain and 'Ballet Junior' in Geneva, Switzerland. As a dancer, she worked with choreographers such as Ronit Ziv, Sahar Azimi, Michal Herman, Ofra Idel, Ruby Edelman, Odalia Koperberg, Shlomi Frij and Elad Schechter. Sofia was the artistic director of the From Jaffa to Agrippa Festival in 2019 and 2020, and in the last five years she has been working as artistic director of Tamar dance studio.
10.04 Wednesday | 17:30
*In a shared program with Rona Soffer and Rachel Zohar (free entrance, pre-inscription required)
The artist Tzipi Nir will be talking about her work with adolescent girls and women from the religious sector, to which she belongs. In her works, Tzipi offers a new vision, aiming to process and deal with conservative spaces of control and power which are managed by the women’s community. She will share thoughts on the ethical questions rising out of these creation processes. In addition, Tzipi will talk about her future project which she plans to create in collaboration with her daughters, in an attempt to create a new narrative, to mix between the private-familial and the artistic, out of a dream to create benevolent intergenerational transfer.
Tzipi Nir is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer and dancer. She lives in Moshav Gimzo, married and a mother of four children. She is the winner of the Minister of Education Award for creators in the fields of Jewish culture named after the late Uri Orbach in the field of dance. Her works, among them: The Red Tent, Tucho kab(a)ru, Praot, Avoya and Tat; Ray have been presented in various festivals and conferences. Tzipi has collaborated as a dancer and performer with various choreographers in Israel and abroad, among them are Reut Shemesh (Germany), Ruby Edelman (Machol Shalem), Tami Itzhaki, Maayan Libman Sharon, Rachel Erdos, Efrat Nechama, Yael Row and others. She is the founder and director of the dance department for religious girls in the city of Modi'in, where she accompanies creative processes to be presented on stage and teaches for high school diplomas in modern dance and composition. She studies and teaches Midrash, Hasidic studies and Torah seminaries. She engages in spiritual processes using the "Family Constellation" and "Transformation Cipher" methods. A graduate of the program for active artists at the visual theaterת "The New Department".
12.04 Friday | 12:00
*In a shared program with Mica Kupfer
How can one explore a theme through diversity and not diversity as the theme itself? In his talk, Gilad Jerusalmy, a creator and a dancer, will share different perspectives of masculinity and maturing as these themes appeared in his previous works. He will share thoughts and raise questions towards his next artistic research dealing with local-masculine identities while working with various communities.
About the Artist:
Gilad Jerusalmy is an independent dancer and creator for stage and media. He is a graduate of SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria, Maslool – Professional Dance Program in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Hakvutza (“The Group”) – School for Movement and Dance for Adults, Tel Aviv-Jaffa. His works EARTH (female), Separation Pangs, Pil-Pilon, PENETRATION, Kittens&Puppies and BLIND ME (samuni) premiered in
the years 2017-2023 in various festivals and venues. As a dancer, Gilad works at Emanuel Gat Dance company (France), and with different choreographers in Israel and abroad, among them are Arkadi Zaides, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Dana Ruttenberg, Rachel Erdos, Mor Shani, Ronit Ziv, Elad Schechter, Olivia Court Mesa and others. Gilad teaches floor work and movement research for different dance companies, creates for various dance programs in Israel and guides movement classes for infants, elderly women and others.
09.04 Tuesday | 19:00
*In a shared program with Iris Erez
When I dance – a movement and dance workshop for people with diversified abilities. In the workshop we will move out of images of freedom, look for new possibilities for movement and imagination and connect to the joy in dance. The workshop is dedicated for people who live with and without a physical disability and wishes to connect us to the dance which comes from within it.
About the artists:
Rona Soffer is a film director. She was hurt in a car accident as a young adult, and since she lost her body, she understood how much body she actually has.
Rachel Zohar dances from the age of four, lives and breaths movement. She accompanies people in rehabilitation and recovery processes through movement therapy, and wishes to strengthen the love and appreciation to our bodies and souls through movement.
10.04 Wednesday | 17:30
*In a shared program with Sofia Krantz (free entrance, preinscription required)
As someone who started her path in the art world in ANAT community (Art that contributes), and is currently teaching various communities from Bnei Brak through Kfar Aza and to Tel Aviv, Sharon will speak on the relations between teaching and creating, between the word and the body, between hip hop and Feldenkrais. In addition, she will propose a point of view on the experience of “being accepted” and the connection between art and sense of belonging. YOU ARE WELCOME.
About the Artist:
Sharon Valevski is a dance and theater artist, a dancer and an educator who create performance works for both stage and public spaces. She is a member of ANAT community (art that contributes), which educates for and emphasizes the interconnections between art, society and education. Sharon has a bachelor's degree in psychology and education, she teaches hip-hop, contemporary dance, improvisation, and Feldenkrais to various groups and individuals, including young girls, adults, and seniors. Her works have been presented in various dance, theater, and art festivals in Israel.
12.04 Friday | 13:45
*In a shared program with Iris Erez
RADICAL MARCH is a project in the making for the ensemble WOMEN OF SOUNDS under the direction of Annabelle Dvir and in the participation of a choir of young girls. A multidisciplinary collision where dance, performance, live sound, cinematography and imagination converge to reflect upon life, the artistic, and the communal. It emanates from traumatic childhood memories and ruminates on motherhood and its role in shaping the self of a young girl. In this creative project, Layil Goren and Annabelle Dvir collaborate together as part of a long-standing artistic and interpersonal partnership, in which they will also embark on a journey to astablish an active-community youth group under their guidance.
About the Artist:
Annabelle Dvir is a choreographer, voice artist, live music composer and performer, who researches live art through the tensions between sensation and perception, desire and controlled risk. Together with her ensemble – WOMEN OF SOUNDS – she creates physical-audial practices and new esthetics that merge feminine reality with fantasy and storytelling. Dvir earned her MA and BA with Dean’s honors from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and graduated from the Kelim Center for Choreography bi-annual choreography program. She is the winner of the 2022 Israeli Minister of Culture Award, the 2018 ImPulsTanz DanceWEB scholarship (Vienna, Austria), and the Art Excellence
Award of Holon Municipality. Her works have been presented in different venues and festivals both nationally and abroad, in Germany, Singapore, Croatia, Italy, Georgia, Denmark, Spain, Lithuania, Atlanta, Slovakia and France.
Layil Goren is a dancer and performer, graduate of the Jordan valley dance school, Kibbutz Gaaton dance workshop and Kelim center’s bi-annual program of choreography. She dances in the Young Vertigo dance company and in different projects of various independent choreographers such as: Ido Batash, Sahar Azimi, Deganit Shemy, Merav Cohen, Ruth Segalis, Nachshon Stein, Orit Shaul, Elad Shechter, Nicol Mahler and Noa Atar. Her original works have been presented in Kelim festival, Suzan Dellal center (80/80 festival) and others. In 2018 she started working with the artist Annabelle Dvir as part of the ensemble WOMEN OF SOUNDS. Currently, she works and creates in “Zikit” visual theater operating in Tefen industrial zone. Layil is also a therapist of the Ilan Lev Method, and teaches contemporary dance in various programs in Israel.
10.04 Wednesday | 19:00
*In a shared program with Mice Kupfer
The project was produced with the assistance of the Lottery Council for Culture and Art