About - Diver Festival 24
  • Diver Festival
  • 6-20.9.2024
  • Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Yaffo
  • Dat Dan
  • Diver Festival
  • 6-20.9.2024
  • Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Yaffo
  • Dat Dan
  • Diver Festival
  • 6-20.9.2024
  • Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Yaffo
  • Dat Dan
  • Diver Festival
  • 6-20.9.2024
  • Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Yaffo
  • Dat Dan

A great cry. In the days of affliction and wandering, we shall gather at a festival and implore mercy. Homes turned to strangers. Our hollow joy becomes our mourning dance. A tribe of artists between Judah and Israel, giving our bodies to the trial. With golden tongues, we will call for Dat (the faith of) Dan “Dan shall be a serpent… on the path that bites the horse’s heels.” We will ascend as cunning craftsmen to the Rami Levy Theater deserted cinema built in Talpiot, and descend as thinkers to the Jaffa-beach museum of sliding sculptures and people. We will be filled with wisdom of hearts to perform from coast to capital. Our folly present will be recounted as a vile tale, from pit to abyss, between left and right, as we pile up our enemies and prevail over our desolation. Justice and valour, grace and truth—where do they lie? Diving into the depths, the supplications of the being of Dat Dan Together, now, we will sing to the lively rhythm of the want of spirit, and matter: Dat Dan, Dat Dan Standstill traffic jam between cities, with drums and dancing, calamities encircling. We will pray together for the awakening of rituals within Israel within Judah quiet, fellas artists and institutions will chant: Dat Dan, Dat Dan It is a holy call, springing out of the desert of writing, we will go up and down, find the law and abandon it. Oh heavens, the lost tribe is found! Facing west, east, a median body of Israel-Palestine, its memories exiled in Assyria and Odessa, its dreams are the Trans-Tehran-Istanbul railway. From the boycott, the good will rejoice; from the horror, the survivors will dance. Instead of judging faith in vain, we will choose to stay here: in our Dat Dan. The beloved of Jerusalem will return to the theatre, shaping reality in the wake of the museum’s splendour. They will imagine, get dirty, experiment, with justice and valour, like serpents, and be content  (for now) with the being of Dat Dan

Diver Festival: Contemporary Dance in Tel Aviv-Jaffa is an annual international festival and a leading agent in the current ‘new wave’ of dance in Israel. It calls for post-disciplinary context, artistic courage, collaborative projects, and radical engagement in the field. Diver exposes and enhances the local and vibrant art scene, and simultaneously takes part in an international network of artists and institutions with mutual interest. The festival is known for its independence as it’s not exclusively officially associated with any major institution in the Israeli dance and art scene, but at the same time, it collaborates with most of them and with major visual art partners and prominent cultural venues.

Diver is taking place all over Tel Aviv-Jaffa in different venues, theaters, museums, and performance spaces. The content performed is introducing young and experienced leading choreographers and artists from Israel and abroad. Next to the shows, Diver invites and initiates diverse collaborations, formats, and platforms. Diver wishes to develop an embodied discursive sphere, which is conceptualizing the present, while investigating the past and performing a futuristic prophetic gesture.

Artistic Director: Ido Feder
General Directors: Ana Weisselberg
Production: Sigal Dahan
Founder: Moshe Shecther Avshalom
Graphic Design: Avi Bohbot
Trailer Editing: Noa Simhayof Shahaf
Trailer Music: Haim Vitali Cohen

Venues:
Parsa complex. Parsa St 3, Jerusalem
Hasan Arfa School, Kedem 40, Tel Aviv-Yafe
The well in front of Suzanne Dellal. Yehieli St 5, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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