G.O.A.T.S | עלייתן של מכונות התשוקה // 5 באוגוסט

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What We Are Not; Dawn of the Desiring Machines | Uri Shafir
A Queer Science-Fiction-Spectacle.
In days of global pandemic, domestic warfare, and fragile reality that seems to change in the
blink of an eye, Uri Shafir and his dancers seek to exercise the dance performance as a remedy,
or a curse, and turn the theatre into a space that celebrates instability and absurdity, clinging
onto pleasure, escaping common sense, common ground, and the common body.
“We do not wish to tell you a story, but to practice our very existence in the world — a world in
catastrophe, a world in repression, that dares to demand from us narratives of stability, unity,
linearity. We try to practice what our dancing body has always known - that we have never been
whole, and our survival plan has never been stable. We navigate the map of changes that are
taking place in us, in the multiplicity of our identities - what we are, and what we are not, real
and fictitious, organic and synthetic, and seek nothing but to relish a little more in the fantasy we
may win”
Credits
Choreography: Uri Shafir
Creative Performers: Anat Vaadia, Michael Yalon, Uri Shafir
Music: Tomer Baruch, Uri Shafir, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert
Live Sound: Tomer Baruch
Scenography & Costumes: Reut Shaibe
Lighting Design: Nadav Barnea
Text: Yonatan Levy
Outside Eye: May Zarhy
Premiered in Curtain Up 2020, artistic directors: Dana Ruttenberg & Oded Graf.
Supported by the Mifal Hapais council of Arts, and by the Rabinovitch foundation of arts

G.O.A.T.S – going on a trip, sis | Billy Barry & Gianni Notarnicola
The follow-up duet to B.O.A.T.S – based on a true story finds Billy and Gianni sent on a trip of
deeper inspiration. This half-evening work unpacks what it means to trip, literally and
figuratively. Within a friendship, how do two people trip into and away from each other,
physically and emotionally? How do they prepare for a trip, a girls’ getaway? How do they
navigate the euphoria of “tripping”? And what kind of trip will they take an audience on via this
exploration? It’s a question of time and how time affects us all.
It’s Billy and Gianni’s daily trips, jokes, moments of laughing at themselves, and the silliness of
life. Speaking with the same humor, they find an artistic flow through their ironic language and
almost cynical approach toward old fashion standards. They find union in a dimension where
reality has rainbow colors, and its essential value is the celebration of themselves.
Credits:
Choreography, Performance, Dramaturgy, Light Design and Costume Design: Billy Barry and
Gianni Notarnicola