In My Eyes (2018-19)
The performance was made accessible through audio description via headphones,
with support from the Central Library for the Blind in Tel Aviv.
Premiered at the Kelim Choreography Center, Bat Yam.
Duration: ~40 minute
Performers: Yossi Dori, Moshe Dror, Eitan Chirak, Haim Reuveni, Hadas Pe'er, Ora Feiner, Narkis Shlomi Soltanian, Lilel Goren / Yuval Gal and Ma'ayan Gur | Dramaturgy: Aharona Israel.
Music: Colleen, Taylor Deupree, Marcus Fischer, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hamza ElDin, Mary Lattimore. "The Blind Men and the Elephant" – John Godfrey Saxe.
The work and the project were supported by Mifal HaPayis, the Ministry of Culture, MARSHAL Tely Aviv, the Kelim Center, and the Central Library for the Blind.
A dance and performance work for 9 visually impaired performers and 2 dancers, developed within the community-based project “Mutual Gaze” in collaboration with the Kelim Choreography Center and MARSHAL.
The work explores personal narratives of visual impairment and interrogates cultural myths and representations of blindness. It brings together the magical and the mundane, blurring and dismantling their boundaries.
Audience members included blind and visually impaired spectators.