Follicles and Fireworks
Premiered at Intimadance Festival 2023
Performances
Redline festival, Jerusalem
October 22nd, 3pm + 5pm
July 11th, 8:00pm, Acco Theater Center
👉Info here
🎫053-3000142
August 1st, 8:00pm, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv
🎫Tickets here
August 2nd, 2:30pm, Tmuna Theater, Tel-Aviv
🎫Tickets here
"Since a woman can be a mother, it was concluded that she not only has to be a mother but also must, and that only in motherhood she can find her happiness" (and love, Elizabeth Bedinter).
I had a dream...wait, was that my dream? my mother's? my country? Whose dream was this anyway? So it didn't happen. Life happened.
I'm saying goodbye to the dream of motherhood.
Choreography and performance: Anat Grigorio || Dramaturgy: Rachel Erdus || Text: Anat Grigorio || Spoken Word: Netta Driter || Stage: Iris Moalem || Costumes: Anat Grigorio || Soundtrack design: Noam Halfer || Artistic accompaniment: Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor || Music: Michael Nyman, Melanie Martinez, Aviva Endean, Hatis Not, Noam Helfer || Lighting design: Matan Preminger || Acknowledgments: Dr. Erez Maayan Shalev, Nava Zuckerman, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Michal Oppenheim Landau.
I had a dream...wait, was that my dream? my mother's? my country? Whose dream was this anyway? So it didn't happen. Life happened.
I'm saying goodbye to the dream of motherhood.
Choreography and performance: Anat Grigorio || Dramaturgy: Rachel Erdus || Text: Anat Grigorio || Spoken Word: Netta Driter || Stage: Iris Moalem || Costumes: Anat Grigorio || Soundtrack design: Noam Halfer || Artistic accompaniment: Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor || Music: Michael Nyman, Melanie Martinez, Aviva Endean, Hatis Not, Noam Helfer || Lighting design: Matan Preminger || Acknowledgments: Dr. Erez Maayan Shalev, Nava Zuckerman, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Michal Oppenheim Landau.
"...Grigorio dismantles choreographic, textual and conceptual structures with a defiance that entails flights of self-humor, tenderness and vulnerability..." [G V. Barnard, Protofolio].
Read more...
"... Anat Grigorio's performative action dismantles the built-in shame that every childless woman in Israel carries with her through her choice to appear this identity in a very theatrical and exposed way: a crowd of dense words that scream a very private truth, and a body whose intensity of movements and presence is so full, and reflects his claim to his place in a world that perceives him as lacking..." [Idit Soslik, The Contemporary Eye]
Read more...
"... Anat Grigorio's performative action dismantles the built-in shame that every childless woman in Israel carries with her through her choice to appear this identity in a very theatrical and exposed way: a crowd of dense words that scream a very private truth, and a body whose intensity of movements and presence is so full, and reflects his claim to his place in a world that perceives him as lacking..." [Idit Soslik, The Contemporary Eye]
The show "Follicles and Fireworks" was produced with the assistance of the Israeli Lottery - the Council for Culture and Arts
