KEEP IT RUNNING
Anat Grigorio & Michal Herman in collaboration with Rotem Nachmany
Premiered at TMUNA Theater, Tel-Aviv 2025
Anat Grigorio & Michal Herman in collaboration with Rotem Nachmany
Premiered at TMUNA Theater, Tel-Aviv 2025
I counted. I slipped. I shouted. I cramped. I laughed.
I took, repeated, enough.
I held on. I could—until I couldn’t. I breathed.
I didn’t know. I turned, shifted, cleared, handed over—enough.
I surrendered. Mistake.
I pulled, lifted. It got stuck. Oh.
I nibbled. Finished. Not stopping.
I arrived. I burst. Nonsense.
There’s more in me.
Our bodies speak time.
We cling to it, stretch the moment, hold the trio—anything but stop.
This performance fuses dance, text, and beat, exploring our relevance, our insistence, and the cost of choosing to go on.
The performance Keep It Running was created with the support of the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts, and within a residency at Hakvutza – Home for Dance, under the artistic direction of Anat Katz.
"...The three of them are charismatic performers, with an exceptional sense of timing and an alert presence that perfectly leverages the show's vitality... Their bodies move as if they are possessed. At one point, the reference to the social gaze directed at their rebellious bodies, which have 'had enough’, becomes explicit: they stand at the front of the stage and look out at the audience... All three proudly display their drooping upper arms, horrifyingly vibrating the sagging flesh; they stretch the skin on their necks, lift their breasts, smack their buttocks, and shake their thighs..."
(Ran Brown, Haaretz).
I took, repeated, enough.
I held on. I could—until I couldn’t. I breathed.
I didn’t know. I turned, shifted, cleared, handed over—enough.
I surrendered. Mistake.
I pulled, lifted. It got stuck. Oh.
I nibbled. Finished. Not stopping.
I arrived. I burst. Nonsense.
There’s more in me.
Our bodies speak time.
We cling to it, stretch the moment, hold the trio—anything but stop.
This performance fuses dance, text, and beat, exploring our relevance, our insistence, and the cost of choosing to go on.
The performance Keep It Running was created with the support of the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts, and within a residency at Hakvutza – Home for Dance, under the artistic direction of Anat Katz.
"...The three of them are charismatic performers, with an exceptional sense of timing and an alert presence that perfectly leverages the show's vitality... Their bodies move as if they are possessed. At one point, the reference to the social gaze directed at their rebellious bodies, which have 'had enough’, becomes explicit: they stand at the front of the stage and look out at the audience... All three proudly display their drooping upper arms, horrifyingly vibrating the sagging flesh; they stretch the skin on their necks, lift their breasts, smack their buttocks, and shake their thighs..."
(Ran Brown, Haaretz).
