BY VIRTUE OF THE SAME MOVEMENT

A movement performance combining visual images and sound.

By Mica Kupfer

Music and Sound: Yaniv Hayoun; Stage Design: Mica Kupfer, Elad Æladin Kalai; Construction Planning and Building: Elad Æladin Kalai, Eden Bar Sever; Lighting Design: Oded Komemi; Artistic Advisor: Nava Frenkel; Assistant Director: Adi Helman

A movement performance combining visual images and sound.
Power is a raw material, a driving force. It creates and destroys, gives and takes, expands and deflates, a vital condition for existence. New realms emerge through actions that blur the lines between body, material, beauty, violence, and humor.
Within the body’s persistent resemblance to a sculpture and its downfall, the performance journeys through construction and dismantling, reality and refutation, abstract and concrete.
The piece was developed and presented with the collaboration and support of the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. It premiered at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre (2019), and won the awards for Best Performance, Best Director-Creator, Best Music and Sound Design, and Best Set Design.

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Mica Kupfer was born in 1993, and is a multidisciplinary artist, director, choreographer, and performer. She graduated from the School of Visual Theatre (2019), and winner of the Mayor of Jerusalem Award for Excellence. She participated in an exchange program at Justus Liebig University Giessen Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Germany, and in the preparatory program at Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio, as well as a Batsheva Dance Company project for outstanding dance students. She has performed and created in Hanut Theatre, Bat-Yam Street Theatre Festival, the Israel Museum, the Tower of David, and more.
Through movement, text, and games with objects and sound, she explores power relationships, existential absurdity, and the aesthetics of violence.


Physical theatre