Choreography and Creations

Divide and Conquer

We are born into a world of constant classification, defined in categories by social, community, and political systems. Identities such as gender, nationality, and religion are received from home and the environment in which we grow up, but throughout our lives, we undergo an unceasing journey with them, and in relation to them. Through the bodies and stories of the performers Nur and Saed, we invite you to reflect on the complexity of this journey, which is simultaneously physical and spiritual, material and emotional, personal and collective.

Choreography and performer: Saed Mansour. Performer/creator: Nur Garabli.

Path of a Cloth

Path of a Cloth is a performative duet by Saed and Doaa, created through many meetings of intuition and conversation between both. Created in a time of turbulence, textile became a way of thinking about identity — how it forms, how it shape shifts, how we remake ourselves moment to moment through what we wear and how we wear it. Fabric carried our relationship as two artists and two people, and opened a space for the audience to enter.

Performers and co-creators: Saed Mansour and Doaa Bsis.

Chairs

This piece was created in 2 days on the spot - 4 people participated: 2 were professional performers and 2 non-professional performers.

Choreographer: Saed Mansour. Performers: Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish, Gal Levinson, Sikelelwa Waka, Fahadhi Kiryowa.

Ethneen / Shtaieem

My first creation & Solo. Somehow this piece became a template and essence of many creations to come.

The beginning of this piece started in a creation course of Ayala Frenkel in Hakvutsa school. I was listening to Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry (Palestinian national poet) in an exercise of improvisation and new movement material came out of my body that I had never seen before. Material from the depths of my body came out.

A performance about the duality of identity and duality in general. I, Saed the performer, will take myself and the crowd on an emotional journey through my body - embodying the story of the land and the complexity that it holds.

A story about all of us, about violence and fear, about what underlies systems of strict control and separation.