A Home for Expressing and Exploring our Humanity
The HumanTheatre aims to provide a safe space for Humans to investigate and express what it means to be a human being in today's IsraelPalestine. Our goal is to create performances that will bring people together, challenge the statuesque and bring out our multifaceted truth.
Vision and Ground of The Human Theatre Program
Creative Expression
The HumanTheatre is a program for beginner and advanced performance artists who would like to further develop their creative expression abilities and generate new original performance work in an ensemble. The program is based in the practice of physical theatre, clown and movement improvisation. Using these tools, students will be invited to bring in their own stories, questions and curiosities and create new pieces.
A Safe Space
The goal of the HumanTheatre is to create a supportive and brave space for people to bring in any aspect of their lives which they would like to explore through performance. We, the creators of this program, want to create this safe place specifically in IsraelPalestine today. Currently, on this part of earth, it is not a simple task to stay sensitive, to speak up when needed, to be vulnerable and to be willing to change. Creative practice is one way that we can insist on keeping our hearts and minds sensitive and flexible.
Building Trust
Trust is a crucial component within the creative process and, of course, within relationship building. We will cultivate trust through creating an ensemble and strengthening the relationships between each other and with ourselves. We will do so through playing, telling stories, listening and learning together.
Community Impact
The creative process constantly challenges and changes the artists themselves and has the potential to stir, shake and heal communities. Our work will be shared in the streets and on the stage with the goal of expanding our safe and vulnerable space to include audience and community members.
Human Theatre Program 2018/2019
The Program starts on Nov 11th 2018 and completes on the 30th of April 2019 (5 months).
Classes will take place twice a week, Sundays and Tuesdays from 15:30 till 20:00 in Teva HaAdam in Nir Zvi and in Bimat Mitzag Tel aviv, Israel.
Beyond the regular classes, the program includes three full weekend masterclasses. Each master class will focus on a a different medium of performance (ritual performance, Chekov Acting method and improvisation/composition) and will allow for a deeper exploration of the subject.
Participants will be introduced to varies forms of performance techniques. Those include: ritual performance art, story telling through the body, Laban for actors, movement improvisation and composition and view points
The process is designed to create a safe space which allows vulnerability and a wide range of creative expression. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their personal creative process and discover what its like to work together as a group.
Students will devise new experimental performance pieces to be shared during two performance weekends throughout the program
Registration for the Program is open until 20.10.2018. Please read more practical information in the registration Form.
Lotan Sapir
Facilitators
Lotan is a dancer, performer, theatre facilitator, and mime artist trained in Ettiene Decroux Corporeal Mime.
She uses these tools to investigate identity, borders, diversity and questions around being human. Lotan creates audience involved performances where the audience takes active participation in the stories they witness. She Uses different transformational processes for the purpose of social and ecological change.
Lotan has developed work in London, Israel and South Africa. Performed in numerous stage productions such as OneTaste Theatre, Gecko Physical Theatre Company. In her deep exploration of ways to cross borders through creation, she continually devises dance and mime pieces in collaboration with artists such as spoken word artists, musicians, and film makers.
Lotan has traveled through the middle east for the last four years using art as a tool to ask vital questions about what it means to be human today in Israel/Palestine. She uses art as a tool to build bridges between diverse communities.Currently Lotan is living in Israel and building The HumanTheatre project, teaching in Nissan Nativ Physical Expression and facilitating movement workshops which reconnect Nature and people.
Lotan sees performance art as a physical, mental and spiritual practice. She believes that art is necessary in our society today. Art has the power to liberate people and performers have an important role to play in creating the world we want to see.
Racheli Mendelson
A collaborative performer artist and a social activist. In her performance work she tackles difficult and controversial issues of oppression and war by using vulnerability, humor and endless questioning as her mode for creation and performance.
In recent years Racheli had dedicated herself to the study of Pochinko Clowning with master teacher Sue Morrison and Ian Wallace (Clown through Mask). In clown work she found a new sense of freedom, presence and playfulness that is now a new found ground for all of her performance work and she is passionate about sharing those tools with others.
In the past decade she has studied physical theatre, contemporary dance, and voice work in Israel and the United States, and completed her BFA in Performance and Peace Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. In collaboration with her ensemble members, she has wrote and directed original works and performed across the United States, IsraelPalestine, Italy, and Nicaragua. Over the past 20 years she has worked as dancer,choreographer, educator, clown, director, writer and improviser.
Dana Margalit
Dana is a creator, an actress and a musician.
Exploring for years the art of stage acting and the work of the actor as a transformative action. Dana is inspired by Michael Chekhov's work for the actor and the his work of images and movement.
In the heart of her work she is questioning the acting as a transformation of one's self. Questions such as - what is freedom, identity, and place. Intending to reach inner peace through this training.
Dana is creating theatrical space meant to explore these experiences.
She has studied Speech formation, Kyogen, and acting in MCE and, since her youth, performed on noumerous stages.
Guest Teachers
Michael Esther Katzir
During her youth Michal trained in a music and theatre conservatory and various different schools of performance art. She studied voice work with some of the finest teachers in Israel and performed in numerous music projects. Today she teaches and facilitates voice exploration workshops. She is dancer, an actor and a singer with Klipa Theatre collective.
Noa Rotem
Noa is a performance artist, director and trainer equally based in Australia, S.E. Asia, and Europe. At the core of her work is the focus on using theatrical and artistic tools for the creation of a more conscious, embodied and humane society. Underlying her various endeavors there is thus the central question of how an artistic practice may serve as an alchemical agent for individual and global transformation. Though originally trained as an actor, Noa’s passion for the poetics of individual and ensemble movement has led her to spend over a decade training in and subsequently specializing in a variety of physical theatre and movement techniques unleashing the body’s authentic and distinct language. These training methods includes; BodyMindCentering, Viewpoints Training, Butoh, contact improvisation, Gaga, Suzuki Method of Actor Training, and Authentic movement. Noa is also passionate about the integral role of dance in harnessing and expressing the inherent relationship between body and earth, and is inspired to be joining The Human Theatre in an exploration of this interconnectedness in her home country, Israel.
