Batsheva Hosts: Iron, Sheep, Property By Michal Samama

“Iron, Sheep, Property” is a political performance and dance piece, touching on burning issues in an unusual way, at once deeply disturbing and strangely comforting. A weave of movement, images, text and songs, the piece is accompanied by a systematic reading out of the Abraham Even-Shoshan Dictionary (1998). The compulsive reading of the dictionary breaks apart the tension between language and culture, calling into question the deep rotted need for ownership over our bodies, language, home, land and country.

Batsheva Hosts, under the artistic direction of Lior Avizoor and Hillel Kogan, is a unique program showcasing the diversity of the local stage arts scene.

Choreography: Michal Samama
Artistic Consultation: Tal Yahas
Text and Vocal Consultation: Hadas Pe'ery
Lighting consultation and Lighting-object design: Ofer Laufer
Producer: Michal Samama, Tut Maharam
Set Technician: Alon Zagir
Camera: Noa Simhayof Shahaf, Yair Mehyuhas, Keren Manor
Video Editing: Oriana Weich
Thanks to "Keter" Company, Meir Cohen, Kibbutzim College of Education, Arnon Rabin, Ruth Direktor, Simon Samama, Samama-Kremnitzer family.

*”Iron, Sheep, Property” premiered at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as part of the exhibition “Imagine a Museum (or: The Remembering Body)” curated by Ruth Direktor, , and was created with the supported of: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Choreographers Association and ‘Kelim’ Choreography Center.