A multidisciplinary dance experience connecting dancers, an opera singer, a Shibari artist, and numerous visual artists in a unique space in Tel Aviv.
This creation combines rope work, group dance, and original music into a complete experience that touches on the intense energy of life and war from an intimate perspective.
“The dancers create moments of breathtaking beauty – some of human connection, togetherness, and touching contact, others of loneliness, struggle, falling, exhaustion, and pain… it’s clearly painful, and at the same time so beautiful” – Portfolio Magazine
“Total devotion and precision in every limb and gaze… This space is enchanted with matter, body, life, irony and a wild complexity… Even weeks after what we experienced here, we will keep diving into the burden of beauty and terrible pain… We will forget nothing of this multidisciplinary, multilayered journey” – Galia Bar Or, curator
“Suddenly the magic begins… a spellbinding ritual” – Creative Writing
Yankalle Filtser is a choreographer, dancer, and dance teacher whose work bridges cultures, disciplines, and aesthetics. He trained at Maslool program Tel Aviv, the Jerusalem Academy High School of Dance, DanceWEB scholarship program in Vienna, and Batsheva’s excellence program. Recipient of the Navon Prize, he founded the As Is dance festival and served as a BAMAH visiting artist in the USA. He has danced in dozens of projects, including with Batsheva Ensemble and Inbal Dance Theater. His work has been recognized globally, moving between dance and ritual, drawing on autobiography and deep curiosity about the body, intimacy, and connection.
Creation and Choreography — Yankalle Filtser
Dancers — Gali Davidovich, Shira Glinka, Noga Cohen, Stav Moritz, Elia Magnezi, Liya Mor, Yankalle Filtser
Opera Singer — Anna Vorontsova
Shibari — Alina “Witch Salt” in collaboration with Morikai Studio
Live Painting — Edith Codegoni, Shahar Rozenstin, Bambou Djian
Live Sculpture — Grant Garibyan
Live Tattoo — Eitan Goldson and Aviv Summer
Performer — Sofia Levina
Fire Keeper — Lika Filtser
Creative Collaborator — Maya Kahanov
Visual and Costume Design — Sofia Levina
Music Production and Original Sound — Ella Lavie
Lighting Design — Rotem Elroy
Photographing- Sofia Levina, David Scouri, Jenya Tarlovskaya, Hilal Soreq
Production Management — Irit Eilat
Production Team — Alumah Fishman, Hadas Ashboren, Gali Davidovich
Original Art Exhibition — Yam Shalev, Yahel Nevo, Hadassah Marom, Shachar Neuhaus, Kabaim, Serafim Chernyi, Menachem Filtser, Grant Garibyan, Shahar Rozenstin, Bambou Djian, Edith Codegoni
Developed as part of a residency at “Herzl House”
Founder — Yahel Nevo
Co Director — Kabaim
Schedule Management — Edith Codegoni
Created with the support of the Pais Council for Culture and Arts, the Rabinovich Foundation
Special Thanks to Yahel Nevo and Uzi Golan who donate the building for art and culture
Additional thanks to Natalya O. Mellman, Frida Shoham, Niros Gallery
Dancers in Previous Versions — Khaveevyah Hercules, Ella Isman-Liwer, Eden Beckerman, Shaked Werner, Tamar Kalimi, Shoval Bitton, Yume Takojima
Previous Guest Performers — Hailey David, Yulia Plotkin Oz
Additional Rehearsal Direction — Shira Ben Uriel
Previous Production Team — Yuli Lakhman, Gal Ben Tov, Carmel Bar, Odelia Bar Lev
Helpers — Sarah Imfeld, Maya Miller, Hailey David, Sofia Levina
Shibari Development — Marquis Des Cat, Ollie Cage, Daniel Moreh
Artists in Previous Versions
Herzl House Artists Collection curated by Yahel Nevo
Sculpture — Shachar Neuhaus
Painting — Alma Gershuni, Ze’ev Bogomolny, Eitan Goldson, Kabaim Studio
Monoprint — Ariel Gil Greenwald
Photography — Sahar Oren, Nir Hadar
Objects — Shlomi Amar
Metal Sculpture — Yahel and Rami Nevo
“Remnants” Exhibition curated by Faten Abu Ali and Sara Lauan
Artists — Adina Kraus, Razan Shami, Faten Abu Ali, Tal Dota, Sarah Lauan, Dror Hibsh, Avital Shani
Also performed at Fresh Paint Arts Fair, live performances curated by Danna Haras
Costume Collaboration — Comme Il Faut
Special Version created for the Back Yard, Pop Up by Work Off Art, Curated by Yaara Sachs
Thank you, Mom, for keeping the fire.
