Amalya Nataf | Jenny Birger | (On) Time | Variations for Fish and Dancer
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Three women go for a walk, a simple daily action that turns into a dance. The encounter deals with time, memories, and how to leave a mark behind us. The work touches on topics such as gender, body image, and memory.
Three women go for a walk, a simple daily action that turns into a dance. The encounter deals with time, memories, and how to leave a mark behind us. The work touches on topics such as gender, body image, and memory.
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Three women set out for a walk. Smadar, Michal, and Smadar. A simple daily action in which they are very skilled, turns into a dance. A feminist intergenerational meeting dealing with time, memories, and what we will leave behind. Through the journey, each one's relationship with her body, with others, and with the fleeting present is examined. As they walk the path, they move between arrangements and disruptions; the form emerges and disintegrates, and the gaze changes.
Amalia Nataf (1993) is an independent creator, performer, and social activist. She is a graduate of the two-year choreography program at the Clal Center. Her work is concerned with issues like gender, body image, memory processes, and physical and mental impressions. In her practice, she questions the boundaries between art, identity, politics, and society, and sees art as a tool for creating awareness, dialogue, and involvement.
Choreography: Amalia Nataf
Collaborating Dancers: Smadar Elad, Michal Koren, and Smadar Carmon
Music: DIZZY PPL BECOME BLURRY/Saya Gray
Musical Editing: Nitzan Brom
Artistic Guidance: Ayala Frenkel
Lighting: Rotem Elroi
Photographer: Katerina Tolkovsky
Original Cast: Bar Klein
The piece was created in the "Exit to Action" incubator at the Clal Center for Choreography, supported by the Pa'is Council for Culture and Arts, and premiered at the "Tools Festival" in May 2026.
Two women meet in a childhood playground. The rules of the game, like voices from the past internalized within them, are present in the space and at the same time invite them to disassemble, twist, expand, and resist. During the game, each finds her way back to herself as an identity that can be dismantled and reassembled. Between remembering and discovery, a space is opened where something old is shaken, and something new can find its place.
Jenny Birger is a multidisciplinary creator, choreographer, and performer, working at the intersection of dance, performance, video, and community work. Her work combines movement, improvisation, live music, and collaborative creation, out of interest in the connection between body, imagination, and human encounter. Her works have been presented in Israel and abroad, including at the Cinedans Festival in the Netherlands, Hansen House, the Epos International Art Film Festival, and the Clal Center, where her piece "Variations for a Fish and a Dancer" premiered (2026). Alongside her independent creation, she creates and teaches in community and interdisciplinary frameworks, including "Community in Motion" of the Yasmeen Godder Dance Company for people living with Parkinson’s. Additionally, she writes about dance in the Creative Writing blog. Birger holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Tel Aviv University and brings to her practice an approach that connects art, body, language, and community.
Choreography: Jenny Birger
Collaborating Dancers: Orit Gross, Sarah Dagan
Music: Bachar Mar-Khalifé – Piano Paradise; Madeleine & Salomon – Ha’yalda Hachi Yafa Ba’gan
Artistic Guidance: Ayala Frenkel
Lighting: Rotem Elroi
Photographers: Natasha Shachnas
The piece was created in the "Exit to Action" incubator at the Clal Center for Choreography, supported by the Pa'is Council for Culture and Arts, and benefited from support from the Yasmeen Godder Dance Company during an artist residency. It premiered at the "Tools Festival" in May 2026.
