Radio-Choreography: Howl is a performative sound installation exploring how embodied knowledge is transmitted across generations and communities. How can we listen to silenced histories carried within our bodies? How can we imagine new futures through sound? Hall 5 of Hazira transforms into an intimate listening space and a living archive. A multichannel sound installation interweaves sounds of dance, fertility blessings in Judeo-Arabic, and embodied memories of resistance and healing, creating a sonic landscape that resonates with transgenerational female solidarity across Morocco, Egypt, Berlin, and Jerusalem. Each evening, a different performer will lead the listening experience, bringing her unique voice and artistic world into the sonic space.
The work was created as part of Radio-Choreography, an artistic research project examining alternative ways of documenting dance through sound and exploring the relationship between live broadcasting and muted narratives. Following a series of performances, broadcasts, and installations across Europe, the project now arrives at the Diver Festival. Radio-Choreography: Howl was created in collaboration with Shira Eviatar, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, and KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive.
Artistic director, concept and sound composition: Netta Weiser Dance: Orly Portal Sound design and technical direction: Daniel koronkevich Sound design and composition support: Giovanni Verga Choreographic collaboration: Shira Eviatar Research collaboration and vocals: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Dramaturgy: Annett Hardegen Lighting design: Rotem Levi
This multi-channel sound installation was first presented at the Badischer Kunstverein, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts.
Netta Weiser is a Berlin-based artist and choreographer. Her work combines sound installations, performance, and experimental radio. In 2019, she founded Radio-Choreographic, an artistic research project that explores alternative methods of documenting dance through sound. As part of this project, she investigates how acts of listening create temporary communities and examines various ways to broadcast choreography via radio. Her works have been presented at international art institutions and dance festivals, including Akademie der Künste Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, CCA Glasgow, TONSPUR Micro Museum for Sound at the MQ Vienna, Tanznacht Berlin, Tanzmuseum Cologne, and Zwergelgarten Pavilion Salzburg. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Germany. Starting in 2025, she will host a monthly radio program on reboot.fm in Berlin and Potsdam. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin.
Orly Portal is a choreographer, dancer, singer, and musician. She is the founder and artistic director of Orly Portal Dance Company and the creator of a unique dance language that merges ancient dance traditions with contemporary movement. Her work explores the connection between movement and music in both body and mind, focusing on improvisation, contact improvisation, and somatic research. Over the past three decades, she has developed Portal Lagaan, a unique movement method that is taught worldwide. She participates as a speaker and panelist at conferences in the fields of dance and music and is a member of the Choreographers’ Association and the faculty of the Academy of Dance. Her works have been performed in Israel and internationally, and she actively leads artistic collaborations across dance, music, and performance. Portal is a graduate of the Leadership Program for Jewish Culture at the Mandel Institute and a recipient of the Yitzhak Navon Prize for the Preservation and Development of Israeli Cultures.
