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"Everything you have is yours?"

  • Brooklyn Studios for Dance Brooklyn Studios for Dance 210 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, 11238 United States (map)

$15-$20

“Everything you have is yours?” investigates the construction of Israeli identity through gestures appropriated from Palestinian and Yemeni culture. Hadar Ahuvia and Mor Mendel imitate and translate instructional videos of Israeli folk dances by Israelis and American Christian Zionist, embodying distance and proximity to Israel, Israeliness, and enacting the feedback loop through which national ideology is disseminated and sustained. In their performative mirroring of these videos, they reveal the subtext of dances, making explicit the Otherness at the kernel of Israeli identity.

Friday only, post show conversation facilitated by Ali Rosa-Salis. 

Earlier Event: November 12
Israeli Folk Dance Deconstructed 
Later Event: November 18
"Everything you have is yours?"