Kelim’s choreography program is unique in its kind in Israel. It serves as a continuation of formation for artists who are interested in the fields of choreography, dance and performance, as well as for artists from other fields for which physical research is at the heart of their practice. The program offers a connection between research, personal artistic guidance for creation processes and group learning. The program’s structure is a cycle of two years which includes physical classes, workshops with leading choreographers and artists, studio and exhibitions’ visits, philosophy seminar, connection and collaborations with various experimental learning groups and institutions in Israel.
In this year’s Kelim festival, a part of the students’ body offers responses – small and intimate interventions – as a continuation of the annual study program. These are actions which are based on self-locating as individuals in a larger system, and which fold questions on reciprocity, solidarity and continuity.
Director of the program: Tami Leibovitch | Artistic personal guidance for the students: Moran Duvshani.
Noa Bartur| Ma
9.4 Tuesday | 20:15
Sailing away through concrete spaces
swaying from side to side,
say goodbye
the wind will carry me to the other side
From the poem: ‘Dugit Nosa’at’ by Nathan Yonathan
Tiferet Klimovsky | with a guitar
13.4 Saturday | 20:15
A body piece with guitar
Isak Chukrun | stamina
10.4 Wednesday | 20:00
Gym bike, karaoke machine and a megaphone. A space for intensive training in singing and yelling in effort.
Noa Manor and Alma Waysaid | dehydrating
13.4 Saturday | 20:15
Two figures hang laundry in Kelim’s yard
Avigail Kochavy | wondering, an exercise in looking
12.4 Friday | 13:00
Behind the gas station, a window opens in the urban space, inviting us to intrude into another existence. Here figures are wondering, in between children’s play to a chasing scene, camouflaging in the landscape.
Participants: Tiferet Klimovski, Ofri Kedem, Avigail Kohavi
Dar Musafir | how to be forgotten
12.4 Friday | 13:00
The tradition of action painting, an artistic style that uses the body in order to throw or lay down paint on a surface and leave monumental painting, is being taken out of its context when the paint is replaced by water and the action’s fate is to evaporate and disappear. Forever.
The program is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports