workshop participants get:

• hands on experience in developing and facilitating three performance scores
• free pass to all 2021 beth sholom high holy days events

utilizing voice, movement and contemporary performance techniques, you will help test and revise the performance scores into seamless relational structures. we will develop three scores:

BLARE: an extended horn-blowing ceremony to welcome the hebrew new year

FACE: an integrated ceremony of reflection and change based on the kol nidre text

DEPTH: an audiovisual installation based on the book of jonah

workshop participants will attend three development sessions led by david israel katz and foreignfire performers, and help facilitate three live, in-person rituals. here's the complete schedule:

development workshops:

monday nights 16, 23 and 30 august

final events:

BLARE: 7 september, early afternoonFACE: 15 september, eveningDEPTH: 16 september, late afternoon

cost: $36

contribute hands-on to developing and leading timespace-bending jewish art-rituals in a workshop series led by david israel katz and foreignfire performers

david israel katz is a singer, composer and performance artist. deeply rooted in jewish community, david’s recent work has been drawing on biblical and prayer-book texts, as well as on the nonverbal text of jewish ritual. he studied composition and improvisation at mills college, and art and social change at ciis, and has specialized in voice and movement improvisation. as director of foreignfire, he organizes ensemble improvisations, writes performance and art-ritual scores, and leads creative workshopping processes. ha’aretz described him as “an uber-performer,” and his art-ritual, THRESH, was praised by jewish currents as “an intense game you can lose yourself in.” recent appearances include musrara mix festival, (jerusalem); xavier veilhan’s studio venezia (venice biennale); and naomi rincon gallardo’s formaldehyde trip (sfmoma, the broad).

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san francisco based performance group foreignfire creates aesthetically powerful events in the overlapping area of performance art and jewish ritual

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