Beit Avi Chai's Piyyut Festival returns to Jerusalem for the fifth year straight. This year's festival will take place at Beit Avi Chai and other venues around Jerusalem from September 10-13, 2012, and will focus on the piyyut and prayer traditions that developed in the complex shared arena of Jewish-Arab culture, both past and present.
Day Four: September 13, 2012
I Will Move as if Intoxicated: Piyyut Theater in the footsteps of Rabbi Israel Najara, produced by the Interdisciplinary Arena.
An original multidisciplinary theatrical performance that confronts the yearning for exaltation, and the attraction between a man and a woman, who live together but do not meet. Piyyut is an expression of the eternal longing for oneness. The new melodies for the piyyutim by the great poet Rabbi Israel Najara are performed by a women's choir.
Written and directed by: Guy Biran
Acting: Iyar Wolpe and Dani Steg
Original Music: Yisrael Bright / Choir: Inbal Jamshid, Michal Lotan, Nitzan Bernstein
Video and Set: Hila Spector / Costumes: Lou Moria / Lighting: Shachar Verchson
Assistant director and dramatic production: Inbal Dekel
Our thanks to: Prof. Tova Beeri, Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Sheli Elkayam, Ruthie Bar-Shalev, Yair Harel
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