Creative Writing

What happens to the live body when technology can multiply, enlarge and reproduce it?

In a new Re, writer Judy Adini responds to Yael Weiss’s Tension, considering the relationship between the performing body and its mediated image, the pleasure and politics of looking, and what remains singular in an age of endless reproduction.

“The camera had to follow this particular body, with its experiences, desires and pains, in order to generate the singular, unrepeatable value of Tension.”

Read The Multiplied Body in full on Creative Writing.

https://creativewriting.me/tension/

Photos by Tal Galon

Sound becomes movement, movement becomes sound, and something keeps vibrating long after the performance is over.

Yulia Frydin responds to Bar Altaras’ 'A Bird of Prey', a work that brings together sound, body, vibration and trance.

“Bar’s wounded bird fluttered inside me too.”

Read Yulia’s full response on Creative Writing:
https://creativewriting.me/abirdofprey/

Photos by Shira Mark
Drawing by Yulia Frydin

Where is the male gaze in The Thinking Heart?

Responding to Neta Shpigelman’s work at the Israel Festival, guest writer Nadav Bossem wonders about the one voice he felt was absent from the stage: that of the male performer.

So he creates one.

In his response, Nadav writes the monologue of the performer who wasn’t there, returning to his own encounter with Etty Hillesum twenty years ago and asking what it means to read her, and understand her, from where he stands today.

“Today I am Etty. Because isn’t that what I’m doing here?”

Read Nadav Bossem on 'The Thinking Heart' on Creative Writing in English and Hebrew here:

https://creativewriting.me/thethinkingheart/

Creative Writing @ The Israel Festival
Photos: Dor Kedmi and Simcha Barbiro

What are the rules you live by?

Who taught them to you?

And which ones have you never stopped to question?

In her latest Re:View, Jenny Birger reflects on Workout Manual by Aharona Israel—a performance that opens up questions about movement and education, authority and ideology, and the invisible manuals that shape the way we move through the world.

Read the full piece now on Creative Writing.

https://creativewriting.me/workoutmanual-2/

In her beautiful reflection on Wonder by Gil Kerer, Heather DeAtley draws a surprising connection between the performance and the Ilan Lev Method, asking what happens when movement becomes an invitation to curiosity rather than instruction.

"Wonder is as much a mindset as it is a moment."

Read Heather's full review now on Creative Writing:
https://creativewriting.me/wonder/

📸 Asya Skorik

Spotlight #2- Matan Preminger 🔦

If you've seen a performance at Tmuna Theater over the past decade, there's a good chance you've experienced his work.

A lighting designer, technician and performer, Matan has spent years illuminating stages. In this edition of Spotlight, we spoke about finding a creative home at Tmuna, turning backstage into performance, what good lighting can do for a piece and why the moments before the audience walks in are sometimes more dramatic than the show itself.

Read the full interview here: https://creativewriting.me/spotlight-2-matan-preminger/

Like strawberry ice cream on a summer day. 🍓🍦

In the latest edition of Kids' Corner, Eden Kramer writes about Etai's Castle by Rachel Erdos.

Rather than offering fantasy worlds or fairy tales, 'Etai's Castle' gives shape to the everyday emotional landscape of childhood: frustration, curiosity, imagination, fear, family, and the feeling that sometimes you're simply... too much.

Read Eden's full review (in Hebrew and English) now on Creative Writing.
https://creativewriting.me/etaiscastle/

LIGHTNESS IN THE BURDEN OF ETERNAL RETURN
by Joy Bernard

In 2000, choreographer Noa Dar premiered 'Strange', a work combining movement and text in collaboration with actor Gal Zaid and playwright Joseph El-Dror. Twenty-six years later, Dar returns to the work in 'Strange in '26', revisiting old material through the lens of time, memory and experience.

In her latest text for Creative Writing, Joy Bernard reflects on watching a choreographer encounter her own past and asks what happens when artists return to earlier versions of themselves.

Read the full review here:

https://creativewriting.me/strangein26/

Photos by Tamar Lamm.