A stage piece for five dancers, three puppets, and other unknowns. Even without remembering what we have lost – we yearn for it. We create our images to meet what’s missing. Standing before the material, devoid of stories, we breathe life into it, or whatever we can.
Choreography: Shaked Mochiach Dance: Omer Uziel, Wenina Lo, Michal Meskin, Shahar Hanin, Shaked Mochiach Music: from the album REA by Rea Mochiach, and the song Gufi by Shaked Mochiach and Yonatan Korn Music editing: Daniel Sapir Rehearsal direction: Michael Yalon Costume design: Kim Teitelbaum Puppet construction: Yaron Krebel Lighting design: Nadav Barnea, adapted by Rotem Levi Premiered at the Kelim Festival 2024 and continued in the Curtain Up platform under the artistic direction of Dana Ruttenberg and Oded Graf. Special thanks to Binyamin Yom Tov, Beit Miryam Community Center, and the Arab-Jewish Community Center in Jaffa.
Shaked Mochiach is a choreographer, musician, dancer, and artistic director based in Tel Aviv. She completed the two-year choreography program at Kelim Choreography Center and is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree at Seminar Hakibbutzim. She creates choreography for human encounters, exploring the potential for shared transcendence through the dancing body. In 2021, she founded the Moon-Dreamers Ensemble, a performance group composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including age, gender, and culture. Her work has been presented across Israel at Curtain Up, the Acre Festival, Kelim Dance Festival, and IntimaDance Festival, among others. In 2023, she released her debut album, Purple.
