The performances are taking place according to the instructions of the Home Command green city status. In case of a siren the audience is asked to follow the evacuation instructions of the hall staff.

Anafaza by Ohad Naharin premiered in December 1993 on the Batsheva Dance Company’s 30th anniversary. Last June, a new edition of Anafaza played to 20,000 spectators over two weeks. The dancers were accompanied by live music performed by Ohad Naharin and members of the band Tractor’s Revenge, Avi Belleli and Danni Makov.

“Anafaza 2023” is similar to its earlier iterations in scope and energy, but also entirely different. It takes shape in a reality that is cynical, violent, and fractured more than ever. Besides the beauty, sensuality, and ecstatic nature for which it is known, it also carries the banner of defiance. It is a stubborn dance in the swamp of reality that threatens to engulf freedom of thought, spirit, and body. It dances away the intoxication of power, incitement, and rhetoric of division and enmity, and holds on to the hope for healing and repair.