{"id":2970,"date":"2023-10-04T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:25:23","slug":"blueberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/blueberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six years in an hour-and-a-half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past six years, we\u2019ve gone through fertility treatments. We never talked about it. There wasn\u2019t anyone to ask in our surroundings, because not a single couple talked about it. This play is based on our story, and the stories of other women and couples, and is comprised of moments from real and imagined memories, documentary materials, and the choreography of waiting rooms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A couple undergoing fertility treatments is stuck in a waiting room together with a chorus of waiting women. They deal with powers greater than themselves, such as the medical institution, which alongside the desire to help is busy with endless bureaucracy, ego, and profit. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> family members, friends, and strangers who <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ask \u201chow they are\u201d,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thus only deepening the couple\u2019s trauma, and the thunderous silence surrounding their emotional state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The show won prizes for Best Performance, Best Actress (Lir Katz), and Best Stage Design (Iris Mualem) at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/871621874?h=d391fd7a1f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nataly Zukerman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an independent performance artist, dramaturg, artistic <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and lecturer. She has created and participated in numerous theatre, dance, and performance works, globally, spanning her twenty-year career. Nataly\u2019s work deals with notions of body, identity, and disability, as she creates autobiographical and interdisciplinary works. Her works include: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blueberry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which she won Best Performance at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice Makes Perfect<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which she won Best Performer at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, 2015; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Other Body<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which she won Best Performer at the Israeli fringe awards, 2014. In the past two years, Nataly has served (together with Ayala Frenkel) as co-artistic director of Kelim Dance Festival at Kelim Choreographic Center. Nataly also works as a lecturer in the Theatre Department at Tel Aviv University, and Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, teaching performance and theatre education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tomer Koppel,<\/b> a graduate of the Performing Arts School at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, has been a professional actor since 2014. He has performed in various theatre productions, such as <i>Eyes Closed<\/i>, <i>Mona Lisa Has a Moustache<\/i>, <i>Alone Together<\/i>, <i>Startup<\/i>, <i>A Nightmare<\/i>, <i>Bus 92<\/i>, <i>Shushuz<\/i>, <i>The Stronger<\/i>, <i>Golden Heart Flower<\/i>, <i>New World Order<\/i>, <i>Last to Go<\/i>, and <i>Practice Makes Perfect<\/i>. On television, he has appeared in shows like <i>A Very Important Man<\/i>, <i>The Dubbed<\/i>, and <i>The Kibbutzniks<\/i>. Since 2020, Tomer has been working as a guide for healthy sexuality and sex education for teens in schools.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Atalia Branzburg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a performance and theatre creator and educator. She has created works in Israel and Ireland, in which she also participated. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blueberry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (co-creator) \u2013 Best Performance Award at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Other Body<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 Best Performer at the Israeli Fringe Awards; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Opening of the New Branch at the War Zone Museum: Bad Renro and Lady Gaga on Amud Annan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (with Dov Or Ner, Tmu-na Theatre), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It Folds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Junk Ensemble, Dublin Fringe Festival).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Ori Lenkinsk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i is a Tel Aviv-based dancer, actress, choreographer, and journalist. Her work, whether on stage, the internet, or on paper, is devoted to exploring the connection between words and movement. As a dancer, Ori has worked with choreographers in the USA, Europe, and Israel. Her works include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Painting<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portrait #2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Suit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Me in the Market<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help Desk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birth Preparation Course<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as the dance films <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carriage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expecting<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Ori\u2019s works have been presented throughout Israel, North America, and Europe.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The performance contains content related to miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, and fertility issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years in an hour-and-a-half.\u00a0 For the past six years, we\u2019ve gone through fertility treatments. We never talked about it. There wasn\u2019t anyone to ask in our surroundings, because not a single couple talked about it. This play is based on our story, and the stories of other women and couples, and is comprised of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,21,19,29,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}