Hazira’s artists invite the audience to cross the line separating the viewer from the performer:
Audience members will become wedding guests, participating in a bacchanalia of wine and dance, experience a polyphonic chaos orchestrated by Michal Oppenheim. In a place where the boundary between real life and “performance” is unclear, participants will move around in the event space, blindfolded, and find out, via a live “reality program,” what is taking place in an artist’s mind …
Again and again the audience will find itself invited to take an active part in the performance, to react to it, and to discover just how unexpected the encounter can be when the audience has suddenly been given “license” to act independently.

This is the third year in a row that Hazira Performance Art will be holding its Dance Festival, giving center stage to young artists in the fields of dance, installation and performance arts.

The premiere performances, which have been created especially for the Festival, are designed to raise questions about the nature of the relationship between the audience and the performer: what mutual need does the theatrical event address? What is it that we are seeing? What do we feel? And what is it that the audience takes home from the performance? In some of the works to be presented, the artists conduct an ongoing dialogue with the audience which dictates the performance’s nature and direction.

After the main performance, at the end of each evening, a dance party will be held, with audience participation, in the Khan courtyard, with some of Israel’s most outstanding dance artists: the Israeli Breakdance Organization ensemble; bellydancer Yael Moav, and Shiri Wild and her flamenco dancing ensemble.
Hazira Performance Art nurtures young performance and dance artists working in a wide variety of fields, including theater, music, video and dance, while enabling the audience to experience the Jerusalem cultural scene and to take part in it's ongoing activity.

"Hidden" – premiere
Director : Danya Elraz
Participants : Tamar Shamir, Maya Bakar, Einav Hodges, Aviv Tatarski, and you – the audience.

"Hidden" is a unique interdisciplinary event in which the audience is invited to take part in an hour and a half-long interaction, while blindfolded. “… You’ll be lifted, moved around, touched … and you’ll be transported in dances of eternal secrecy …”

"Symbol of Ascent" – premiere
Creator/Dancer : Maya Levi
Dancer/Collaborator : Karin Lederman
Design : Lishai Levron
Thanks to : The School of Visual Theater, Gili Gaudiano, Eran Cohen.

The tension between ascent and descent, maintaining climbing pace and acknowledging milestones – these are the points of departure for the choreographic work that engendered "Symbol of Ascent".
This work explores, from a critical perspective, the issue of struggle as a means of progressing – manual labor, sweat and physical force as tools in the realization and achievement of goals.

"Cold Feet" – premiere

Creator/Dancer : Daffi Altabeb
Dancer : Tal Kol

Every day. It has to be done every day. Put things in order. First the blouse and then on top of it, slowly, the pants.
I put the shoes in their place and roll the socks up into them. Stability. Good. There is something liberating about order. Otherwise chaos might erupt.

Entre Alegria Y Pena (“Between Joy and Pain”)
Ritmo – Shiri Wild’s flamenco ensemble
Choreography : Shiri Wild

An electrifying show in a succession of different flamenco rhythms; a musical dialogue and game of rhythm between dancers and musicians that will lead us from traditional to contemporary styles.

"Wedding" – premiere
Creator/Dancer : Michal Herman, Dedi Tzadok
Participants : Orli Eroshem, Michal Herman, Yossi Tzabari, Dedi Tzadok, Uzi Feinerman
Musical Director : Roi Yarkoni
Musicians : Uzi Feinerman, Noa Golandesky, Boris Martzinovky

A wedding is experienced through the eyes of eight figures – four dancers and four musicians. The domineering mother of the bride is willing to sacrifice her daughter for status and family connections, but the bride herself is seeking innocence, purity and love. When the wedding ceremony doesn’t go as planned, the audience is invited to join the party.

Flamenco Party – open for audience

Ritmo – Shiri Wild’s flamenco ensemble

"Hidden" – premiere
Director : Danya Elraz
Participants : Tamar Shamir, Maya Bakar, Einav Hodges, Aviv Tatarski, and you – the audience.

"Hidden" is a unique interdisciplinary event in which the audience is invited to take part in an hour and a half-long interaction, while blindfolded. “… You’ll be lifted, moved around, touched … and you’ll be transported in dances of eternal secrecy …”

"Between the chairs"– premiere
Creator/Dancer : Tali Zabilevich
“Problems disappear when you set to work, like life and death … All you need is to be committed to your decision. You only find ideas and words while talking” (Eugene Ionesco).

Taking Eugene Ionesco’s cue, the struggle against loneliness fills the vacuum with human chairs.
“Fill, fill all the empty space with chairs, leave no room for doubt. Get rid of any remnant of loneliness.”

"The Matador of Love" – premiere
Script, direction and production : Maccabit Abramson and Avner Feingelrent
Narrator : Alon Abutbul
Dancer : Anat Shamgar
Cinematography : Avner Feingelrent
Editing : Lev Goltzer
Recording : Yuri Fromenenko

The process by which a text evolves from the written word to living, breathing movement.
A film that straddles the worlds of film, dance and theater, offering its own cruel interpretation of love and passion between man and woman. The dance that is performed on the stage is a continuation of the film, but adds a new dimension to what has been taking place.

"Hidden" – premiere
Director : Danya Elraz
Participants : Tamar Shamir, Maya Bakar, Einav Hodges, Aviv Tatarski, and you – the audience.

"Hidden" is a unique interdisciplinary event in which the audience is invited to take part in an hour and a half-long interaction, while blindfolded. “… You’ll be lifted, moved around, touched … and you’ll be transported in dances of eternal secrecy …”

"Symbol of Ascent" – premiere
Creator/Dancer : Maya Levi
Dancer/Collaborator : Karin Lederman
Design : Lishai Levron
Thanks to : The School of Visual Theater, Gili Gaudiano, Eran Cohen.

The tension between ascent and descent, maintaining climbing pace and acknowledging milestones – these are the points of departure for the choreographic work that engendered "Symbol of Ascent".
This work explores, from a critical perspective, the issue of struggle as a means of progressing – manual labor, sweat and physical force as tools in the realization and achievement of goals.

The Israeli Breakdance Organization

Breakdance is a form of dance that developed on the American street and spread across the world. The courtyard dancing that accompanies the performances offers a glimpse of the “street” itself, a “popular” dance experience.
Dance, internal rhythm, are in each of us. In the courtyard, with no barriers, one may ask: How do you get people to get up and dance?

"The Pet"
Dancer/choreographer : Sharon Tzukerman
Video : Assi Oren
Musical editing : Oded Goldschmidt

A solo performance that strives to bring the subconscious to the surface, to expose the black box of the performer’s mind via the reality program medium.