Batsheva Hosts: Iron, Sheep, Property

“Iron, Sheep, Property” is a political performance and dance piece, touching on burning issues in an unusual way, at once deeply disturbing and strangely comforting. A weave of movement, images, text and songs, the piece is accompanied by a systematic reading out of the Abraham Even-Shoshan Dictionary (1998). The compulsive reading of the dictionary breaks apart the tension between language and culture, calling into question the deep rotted need for ownership over our bodies, language, home, land and country.

*”Iron, Sheep, Property” premiered at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as part of the exhibition “Imagine a Museum (or: The Remembering Body)” curated by Ruth Direktor, and was created with the supported of: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Choreographers Association and ‘Kelim’ Choreography Center.