19:30
90 Min
Studio Zehava & Jack
120₪
21:30
90 Min
Studio Zehava & Jack
120₪
S.O.S. – Songs of Sequence is the fourth chapter in Godder’s ongoing research regarding empathy, channeling together all the fluxes of knowledge accumulated so far. Presenting the show in an open space with an ensemble of 11 dancers, the work illuminates how abstract formality can be charged with the most profound human contexts. In S.O.S. – Songs of Sequence, the extensive experience of working with an audience that Godder and her company have accumulated, has reached its peak as part of the exhibition: “Imagine a Museum (or: The Remembering Body)” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in February 2023.Members of the audience are welcome to join – as viewers, witnesses, or active contributors, and participate in a joint voyage towards creating an ad-hoc, empathy-based community. The pandemic years have made this concept more relevant than ever, and the call for help, implied in the title, injects a dimension of urgency into a work that is conducted between the intimate and the monumental, between calm and intensity, between expansion and depletion.
Yasmeen Godder was born in Jerusalem and raised in New York City. Since moving back to Israel in 1999, Godder has been based in Jaffa. Her work has received both local and international acclaim and prizes. In recent years, her work focuses on the audience’s experience, redefining the emotional and physical “meeting” that happens in a performative setting. Her company has two ongoing community projects: “Moving Communities”- weekly dance classes for people living with Parkinson’s disease, and “Na’ot Ma’Ba’ad” مع بعض (Moving Together; since 2015), a collaborative project with Nur Garabli, dance workshops which bring together Arab and Jewish women to create a joint, bilingual, and safe space for connection (since 2020).
Photo: Yair Meyuhas
S.O.S - Songs Of Sequence
Choreography: Yasmeen Godder
Dramaturgy: Itzik Giuli
Dancers: Inbal Aloni, Ortal Atsbaha, Noam Ben-Israel, Nur Garabli, Shuli Enosh, Shahd Jabarin, Tamar Kisch, Michiru Shin, Nir Vidan, Yael Wachman, Michael Yalon
Rehearsal Director: Einat Betsalel
Scenography and Lighting: Ofer Laufer
Music and Musical Arrangements: Lior Pinsky
Costume Design: Maya Bash
Production manager: Omer Alsheich
Administrative Manager: Zohar Eshel-Acco
The work premiered in T.L.V. Museum of Art
on February 2023
Supported by the Acziun Program of Muzeum Susch, Switzerland