Ilana Sarah Claire Bellahsen • Artist in Residence
TA’AMIM

In Hebrew, TA’AMIM means tastes, flavors, meanings, and the trope symbols- that guide how a text or a body is read.

It is a dance–performance work that explores the female body through the notion of taste – as a sense, as emotion, and as a cultural and political system of reading the world.

Like in the tradition of biblical cantillation marks, a small sign can shift the entire reading.

The work engages with familiar materials: body, food, color, voice, and sound. It activates taste as a subtle incision that emphasizes, displaces, deconstructs, and rewrites what is present.

At the center of the work are four qualities of body, consciousness, and femininity – four women who move between ritual, instinct, materiality, and memory. The women are not different psychological characters, but bodily frequencies: a state of taste.

Through color, voice, movement, and matter, a sensorial space is created in which the body shifts states of consciousness and generates embodied memory. Live and industrial sound operates as the nervous system of the stage, turns into the beating heart.

The dramaturgy moves between bodily states: acidity, incision, chewing, tension, and suspension. “Taste” becomes a force that guides the body and memory, opening a possibility for transformation and freedom.

This performance includes partial nudity