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Machol Shalem Dance House (MASH) has been nurturing and promoting contemporary dance culture in Jerusalem since 2002. Our mission is to establish a supportive infrastructure for artists to develop and share new works, while also providing platforms for interactions between Jerusalem's dance community and the public at large. MASH produces a diverse array of cultural events throughout the year including: performances, workshops, master classes, festivals, and outdoor events, and is one of six dance centers officially recognized by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
A further MASH objective is to contribute to the branding of Jerusalem as a young and vibrant cultural hub with a dynamic, cutting-edge arts scene. In order to do so, MASH offers a program called the Jerusalem Exchange, which enables international collaboration through Jerusalem-based events that showcase acclaimed artists from abroad alongside emerging local talent, students, and special guests. MASH serves dozens of Jerusalem artists and dance groups, managed by secular, religious, and ultra-Orthodox artists, each year.
In addition to its projects here in Israel, MASH offers several international events and opportunities from the annual International Dance Week to an International Festival for Children and Youth Dance Concerts in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry. MASH also creates co-productions and working relationships with fellow creators around the world. Throughout the year, MASH runs children's performances, community and social projects, and hosts artists, creators, and dance directors from Israel and around the world.
The MASH studio and performance spaces at the former Rav Chen Cinema serve as a dance incubator for dozens of independent artists, helping to nurture local artistic activity at both the production and performance levels, and bringing stimulating, ground-breaking work to the professional stage. MASH also operates as a training framework for artists at the start of their careers, facilitating the creative process and, ultimately, producing performances at professional venues.
MASH is located at 3 HaParsa Street, Talpiot at the former Rav Chen Cinema, which is currently undergoing renovations, under the direction of the Jerusalem Municipality, to be completed in the summer of 2020. MASH additionally hosts events in a variety of venues in Jerusalem , across Israel, and around the world.
MASH operates within the framework of the Machol Shalem Association
Machol Shalem Dance House (MASH) has been nurturing and promoting contemporary dance culture in Jerusalem since 2002. Our mission is to establish a supportive infrastructure for artists to develop and share new works, while also providing platforms for interactions between Jerusalem's dance community and the public at large. MASH produces a diverse array of cultural events throughout the year including: performances, workshops, master classes, festivals, and outdoor events, and is one of six dance centers officially recognized by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
A further MASH objective is to contribute to the branding of Jerusalem as a young and vibrant cultural hub with a dynamic, cutting-edge arts scene. In order to do so, MASH offers a program called the Jerusalem Exchange, which enables international collaboration through Jerusalem-based events that showcase acclaimed artists from abroad alongside emerging local talent, students, and special guests. MASH serves dozens of Jerusalem artists and dance groups, managed by secular, religious, and ultra-Orthodox artists, each year.
In addition to its projects here in Israel, MASH offers several international events and opportunities from the annual International Dance Week to an International Festival for Children and Youth Dance Concerts in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry. MASH also creates co-productions and working relationships with fellow creators around the world. Throughout the year, MASH runs children's performances, community and social projects, and hosts artists, creators, and dance directors from Israel and around the world.
The MASH studio and performance spaces at the former Rav Chen Cinema serve as a dance incubator for dozens of independent artists, helping to nurture local artistic activity at both the production and performance levels, and bringing stimulating, ground-breaking work to the professional stage. MASH also operates as a training framework for artists at the start of their careers, facilitating the creative process and, ultimately, producing performances at professional venues.
MASH is located at 3 HaParsa Street, Talpiot at the former Rav Chen Cinema, which is currently undergoing renovations, under the direction of the Jerusalem Municipality, to be completed in the summer of 2020. MASH additionally hosts events in a variety of venues in Jerusalem , across Israel, and around the world.
MASH operates within the framework of the Machol Shalem Association
Machol Shalem Dance House (MASH) has been nurturing and promoting contemporary dance culture in Jerusalem since 2002. Our mission is to establish a supportive infrastructure for artists to develop and share new works, while also providing platforms for interactions between Jerusalem's dance community and the public at large. MASH produces a diverse array of cultural events throughout the year including: performances, workshops, master classes, festivals, and outdoor events, and is one of six dance centers officially recognized by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
A further MASH objective is to contribute to the branding of Jerusalem as a young and vibrant cultural hub with a dynamic, cutting-edge arts scene. In order to do so, MASH offers a program called the Jerusalem Exchange, which enables international collaboration through Jerusalem-based events that showcase acclaimed artists from abroad alongside emerging local talent, students, and special guests. MASH serves dozens of Jerusalem artists and dance groups, managed by secular, religious, and ultra-Orthodox artists, each year.
In addition to its projects here in Israel, MASH offers several international events and opportunities from the annual International Dance Week to an International Festival for Children and Youth Dance Concerts in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry. MASH also creates co-productions and working relationships with fellow creators around the world. Throughout the year, MASH runs children's performances, community and social projects, and hosts artists, creators, and dance directors from Israel and around the world.
The MASH studio and performance spaces at the former Rav Chen Cinema serve as a dance incubator for dozens of independent artists, helping to nurture local artistic activity at both the production and performance levels, and bringing stimulating, ground-breaking work to the professional stage. MASH also operates as a training framework for artists at the start of their careers, facilitating the creative process and, ultimately, producing performances at professional venues.
MASH is located at 3 HaParsa Street, Talpiot at the former Rav Chen Cinema, which is currently undergoing renovations, under the direction of the Jerusalem Municipality, to be completed in the summer of 2020. MASH additionally hosts events in a variety of venues in Jerusalem , across Israel, and around the world.
MASH operates within the framework of the Machol Shalem Association
OUR TEAM
NARKIS by Irad Avni
About creature and entity A letter to NARKIS:
There is nothing in this world but myself.
Everything lies beneath me. I fulfill light and beauty. I have a rich
inner world. I am love and perfection.
Only my reflection exists, I reflect myself reflecting through myself reflecting myself. I am a protected flower.
You might feel clean and free of psychology but at the same time also dead in some sense.
When you visit life you envy her, her totality. You will always have lack of totality I promise that your reflection will not bring death upon you but a peek into your innermost layers, the hidden sides that emerge and erupt every so often;
Give up on creating attempts to uphold your persona.
Don’t show everything at once, leave some room for curiosity.
But you, you are not exactly a classic Narcissus.
I hope that when you leave, you will love yourself and let go, you will be complete.
Choreography and performance: Irad Avni
Costume design and artistic advising: rosello shmaria
Original lighting design:eyal daniel
Music: Gioachino Rossini, antonin dvorak, Felipe Villanueva, Kazaky
Nature by Lotem Regev
A close-up to human nature. Emotional experiences translated into movement. A dance of elusive harmony, in the meeting point between two men.
Choreography: Lotem Regev
Performers: Evyatar Omessy, Lotem Regev
Costume desing: Noah Sancho, Lotem Regev
Music: Mattheus Van Rossum, Thomas Walschot, Rare Silk
The piece was initially created for Curtain Up Festival, with the support of the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports
Castle by Rachel Erdos
An intimate duet in which the dancers are trapped in a square of 2.5 x 2.5 meters. Coloured fluorescent lights demarcate their territory and they inhabit it. The audience sit close to the performers on all 4 sides of the square.
In today’s society space, or the lack of it, is an issue. Wars are fought over small pieces of land and borders are constantly changing and defining who we are. We live in overpopulated cities where the price to rent a tiny apartment is huge. The work was created in reaction to the current political situations and living conditions in many places in the world. As the cost of living grows we are forced to inhabit smaller and smaller spaces.
This work questions whether the walls make us prisoners in our own castle or protect us by keeping others out. Are we trapped or are we free? Free in our minds, our homes, our lives, our countries?
Commissioned by MASH, Machol Shalem Dance House, Jerusalem, Israel
Choreography and Concept: Rachel Erdos | Creative performers: Ori Lenkinski, Tomer Giat | Set Design and Construction: Alon Birger | Original Music and Editing: Yoav Atzmon | Music: The Boo Radleys, Echo Lake, The Caretaker | Artistic advisor: Oded Graf | Producer: Tali Konigsberg | International | Communications: Katherina Vasiliadis | First presented as part of Mahol Shalem Festival, September 2014
Aliza By Ravid Abarbanel
A couple on a journey, deals with the challenges and fragments of thought and memory. Two characters who live in a world that is not necessarily physical, part of which exists only in their minds. They want to help one another, to bolster one another, to succeed together- however, their journey together is wrought with solitude. Suddenly it is unclear where they are going and why. Good intentions are engulfed by vast confusion.
Choreography : Ravid Abarbanel
Dancers : Tomer Giat , Ravid Abarbanel
Sound Design : Ivan Shopov
Photo by
Deganit Artman
Artistic manager : Shlomit Fundaminsky
The piece was developed within the frame of Derida Dance Center’s Residency Program, a project part of the Calendar of Cultural Events of Sofia Municipality for 2017, with the support of The Israeli Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The piece premiered on September 2017, at the "Shades dance" festival in Suzanne Dellal, Tel Aviv - Israel
Sisypha by Yoram Karmi
A new productions from the project “Wind Connections” by Israel Festival 2021
Inspired by MORJAN ABU DEBA's work, choreographer Yoram Karmi wishes to explore the temporal dimension, the power of nature and the endless cycle that can be seen as Sisyphean and reparative but also as optimistic and meditative.
Pshutot by Ronen Izhaki
A productions from the project “Wind Connections” by Israel Festival 2021
In 1963, film director David Perlov made “In Jerusalem,” a lyrical documentary about the divided capital of the young state. One of the interviewees, an anonymous Orthodox woman who later became famous as the poet Zelda, caused an unintentional provocation when she stated that “In this city, every beggar could be the Messiah,” an accurate observation indeed about biblical and everyday life in Jerusalem.
Perlov’s portrayal of these beggars and self-declared messiahs displeased the “Israeli Film Service” that funded the production, prompting them to demand its reshoot – a demand that was met with backlash and demonstrations. The protests reached then-Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who ruled that the film can return to the screens.
Jerusalemite choreographer Ronen Itzhaki contemplates the film, the scandal that surrounded it, and the revolutionary and daring figure of Zelda. He centers his work around a new group of women – potential messiahs, refugees, beggars. Using their bodies, they express the turmoil, contrasts, and blend of languages that distinguish this city, its stories and conflicts, and eventually also the appeal for balance.
Choreography: Ronen Izhaki / Dramaturgy: Tammy Izhaki / Music: Gideon Lewensohn / Dancers and co-creators: Kornelia Lech, TalShalom Sack, Inbal Ronen, Viola Gasparotti, Talia Vaknine, Neta Henik, Maor Alfasi, Naama Avni / Rehearsal manager: Karin Lederman / Production manager: Hadas Kidron / Costumes: Neta Henik / Texts: Amichai Chasson.
Laxity By Noa Dar
A productions from the project “Wind Connections” by Israel Festival 2021
Photo by Tamar Getter-Slingshot Girl
In “Slingshot Girl,” a video work created by the artist Tamar Getter in 2004, a wounded girl slings a rock at a figure outside the frame. Taken from a Kung Fu film, the scene – which originally is only a few seconds long – was digitally manipulated and extended into an 8-minute action.
Noa Dar was drawn to the link that Getter made between the stretched slingshot and the stretching of time. Using the elements of the event captured in the video, her solo moves on an axis that stretches between edges of tenseness and laxity, advance and retreat, accumulation and depletion, defense and attack, movement and stillness.
Choreographer and performer: Noa Dar
Rehearsal director: Yael Venezia /Artistic consultant: Michal Samama
Costume design: Michal Bassad /Sound design: Elad Shniderman
Premiere: 15/6/2021, Israel Festival, Artistic Director – Itzick Gulli
Toafot by Ruby Edelman
A multi-sensory journey to the end of the world and back. A shaky encounter between beings and unusual scenarios that shatter the boundaries of augmented reality. A thick, colorful fog slides off the stage and slowly covers the viewer. Overwhelming and seducing you, yes you! Release all inhibitions and merge into a boundless surge of consciousness.
Performance: Yael Sofer Samson, Danielle Lamensdorf, Tzipi Nir, Tzvika Iskias
Rehearsal and performance management: Gabby Foster
Light design: Dani Fishof /Costumes: Yasmin Steinmetz
Recordings: Lior Pinsky, Amir Meir / Sound design: Lior Pinsky
Music: Andrew Deutsch – loops over land - track 01
Beethoven - Symphony No 9 in D minor, op. 125. Karajan · Berliner Philharmoniker Alvin Lucier - Sferics /Thomas Brinkman - Work /Eyal Golan- Collage
"My Father/My Daughter" by Daniel and Amir Kolben
Inspired by the painting "My Father Is a Soldier" by Assad Azi.
In 1961, during his military service, Assad's father was killed by a Syrian sniper fire. Later, as an adult artist, Azi returned to the image of his soldier father. From a photograph showing the father upright, dressed in an army uniform, standing in an open area with a typical view of a military base, Azi replicated his image time and time again as an act of preservation of a distant memory.
The figure in his paintings lacks national trappings and emphasizes the casualness of death and the complexity of Azi's sense of belonging/lack of belonging in the face of the local reality – political and social – towards the Druze community. The father figure in Azi's work is the background to a new work by the choreographer Amir Kolben and his musician daughter Daniel Kolben. The two will perform side by side, looking courageously at the breaking point in their family. Tied in an invisible rope they deal with abandonment, disintegration and the breaking of the myth of the strong and omnipotent father, touching on the humanity and fragility of father-daughter relationship
Our programs include:
Jerusalem International Dance Week: a weeklong festival which encompasses:
Showcase for Independent Israeli Dance Artists;
International Choreography Competition;
MASH Festival presenting original productions
Dance Series:
featuring Jerusalem-based artists, students, and veteran artists from Israel and abroad
House Productions for adults and for the whole family
Israeli Showcase for young audiences
Social Projects involving various diverse Jerusalem populations
Artists' Exchange and Residency Programs
Performing Arts Hub:
an incubator that bridges the gap between educational and cultural institutions
and help graduates to become independent artists
Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Women's Dance Platform
