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<\/a>Works from Poland will be a central focus, with an exhibit of works by Polish photojournalist Kryzsztof Miller (1962 \u2013 2016), as well as The Polish Invasion<\/strong> on October 24th<\/sup>, with several performance works by independent artists. Performances include: Musician and graphic artist Alexandra Grunholz<\/strong>, presenting We Will Fail<\/strong>; dancer\/choreographer Ramona<\/strong>, with her solo performance Pure, inspired by the work of Polish director Tadeuscz Kantor<\/strong>. \u00a0Agatha<\/strong>, with a solo piece The Soft Act of Killing<\/strong> \u2013 a work on the consequences, tensions and damage that our various deeds and acts incur in a chaotic world; Vala Tanz<\/strong>, a Polish queer-performance artist with Notes on Ness, Love and Other Stuff<\/strong> \u2013 a performance collage of a life process amid social processes going on around it.\u00a0Closing the evening will be Krakov sound designer justyna <\/strong>with a DJ set in the Tmuna bar.<\/p>\n Opening the festival on October 23, 2017, will be a festive concert in honor of the Musica Nova collective’s 30th<\/sup> anniversary. Read more about the concert here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just in Time<\/strong> is an interactive dance performance created from materials collected by Thomas Plischke<\/strong> and Kattrin Deufert<\/strong> \u2013 from 2016 \u2013 2018 they are collecting letters from people in Berlin, New York and Tel Aviv writing their feelings, thoughts, and relationship to dance, and describing a movement they like. These letters form the raw material for the choreography. There will be two performances: on the first evening Roni Katz<\/strong> and Omer Krieger<\/strong> will present their interpretations, on the second evening, the Tel Aviv letter writers will be present for a celebration of dance. More dance performances: \u00a0Doris Ulich<\/strong> from Austria, with Rave Machine<\/strong> together with the choreographer Michael Turinski<\/strong>, who performs a large part of the performance in a wheelchair; Patricia Carolin Mai<\/strong> from Germany will present two parts of her dance trilogy \u2013 Bodies in State of Emergency – the solo Ready to Snap<\/strong>, and a second part created with Israeli choreographer Dror Liberman<\/strong>; MA<\/strong> by Advah Yirmiahu<\/strong>, a choreographer and flamenco dancer based in Seville, combines flamenco and performance art; Freedom of Speechless<\/strong>, by Yarden Gilboa<\/strong> (Israel) and Mor Dovrat<\/strong> (Switzerland); View-Nof<\/strong> by Avi Kaiser<\/strong> and Sergio Antonino<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Cabaretakum<\/strong> is a musical-theatrical experiment – an electronic cabaret that combines Hip Hop and live electronics, rap and song in several languages, with a variety of musical instruments. Presented by Soulela<\/strong>, the San Francisco based Israeli duo of Elika Feldman<\/strong> and Adam Miclaf<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Israeli premieres at the festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n Suspicious incident<\/strong>\u2013 a black comedy by Noam Gil, directed by Yigal Zaks, about a murder in one of the settlements which leads to a comic-absurd chain of events;<\/p>\n The Mysterious Disappearance of M<\/strong> \u2013 an urban-detective story<\/strong>, by Danielle Cohen<\/strong> Levi<\/strong>, who, through a journey motivated by her desire to be a detective, creates a theatrical entity both puzzling and surreal, and evokes a forgotten Israeli reality;<\/p>\n Elifelet<\/strong>, a performance by Il-Il Lev Canaan<\/strong> which deals with the rituals of mourning that surround us from birth and have become an integral part of our DNA.<\/p>\n Oded Ronen and Ligal Melamed<\/strong> in a dance premiere especially for the Festival, called Capsule,<\/strong> which explores our belonging and lack of belonging, and the tension between the two.<\/p>\n The festival will also inaugurate a new series of dance performances hosting artists in other disciplines. Merav Dagan<\/strong> and Stav Marin<\/strong>, whose work Come Closer<\/strong> premiered in Curtain Up 2016, will host Faye Shapiro, a musician with her own unique language, which will be combined in their creation. On Come Closer: a mesmerizing rapid-fire succession of allusive movement and gesture, meticulous, precise and wildly entertaining. It’s a challenge to the senses to meet the pace of this work’s imagery, a kinetic reflection on the mythology of woman, generating a multitude of associations. (read the full review here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>