50 MIN | 2024

The Same Sky is a performance inspired by classical paintings depicting mass scenes of violence and transcendence.

By embodying archetypal positions of struggle and escape, the performers transform the feeling of helplessness and pain arising from the current war and political piggishness in Israel, giving it a wider context, finding some perspective and a hope for meaning. The performers recreate the visceral feeling radiating from positions stopped in mid action of, for example, that of Judith and Holofernes (by Caravaggio) or the Sabine Women (by Jacques-Louis David) and bring them to life in order to find strength, freedom, and a little control. 

The feeling of loss of  a center and rise of apocalyptic evil is well captured in W.B. Yeats poem The Second Coming: 

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;.." 

In this work, we let ourselves be washed away by the surge of violence in order to rise from it and breathe again.