BIRDS DON'T SING,
THEY SCREECH IN PAIN

Choregrapher: Roy Assaf 

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Assistant Choreographer: Ariel Freedman

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Dancers: DART Dance Company Members

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Light designer: Christian Scharrer

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"So I wrote this text instead": Ariel Freedman

Music: Four Ballades, Opus 10 (Johannes Brahms, performed by Glenn Gould); Tamerom (Kristin Bjerkestrand singing by Osnat Harel)

Music Production: Reut Yehudai

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Premiere: 11th & 12th of November 2023

Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin

" One of life's most difficult challenges is not knowing, and I bow deeply to those who manage to sit with the unknown without losing their souls. Every time I enter the studio, I recall that our starting point is the unknown, and that my job is to practice holding it. As tools of this practice, I employ symbols that occupy me, rituals that disturb me, expectations that frighten me, patterns that attract me - especially those that carry a historical charge. I like to scatter them in the space of creation and to see what happens, to test whether they are able to transform. "

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