“I can no longer talk to ____ about Israel.” BY GILI GETZ A year ago, on Tikkun Leil Shavuot at the 14th Street Y, I performed The Forbidden Conversation for the first time. The play, which is about the difficulty of talking openly about Israel in the American Jewish community, was developed while I was
BY SARAH FRIEDLAND During her recent residency at the MacDowell Colony, filmmaker Sarah Friedland engaged in a deep visual meditation of Ecclesiastes (Koheleth in Hebrew). Her tools were the text, a camera and a couple of packets of articulating paper that she found outside a dentist office back in New York City. (These are the
BY BEN GANTCHER Honi the Chalk-Slinger Honi the Circle Maker is a hero, Reb Sheriff, holster packed with magic chalk. But he doesn’t come across that way when you meet him in the two stories we read this year in LABA. Sure, he’s a miracle worker, but in the first story, he’s cast as an
BY JOSH WALETZKY The major culture war of our day sets two worldviews against each other: “fundamentalist” vs. “scientific,” or “religious” vs. “secular.” This culture war has a long history, with roots in the time of the European Enlightenment. The Yiddish tale that served as the starting point for “The Last Dybbuk,” our devised
LABA FELLOW SHAWN SHAFNER TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW COMMUNITY-BASED ARTWORK, FERMENTING MEMORIES AND WHY HE NOW MAKES SURE TO LOOK FOR THE MOON EVERY NIGHT. COME SEE HIS NEW WORK IN “TIME INSIDE US,” 6/4 AT THE Y. Tell us about your project. “Eat Your Feelings” is a community-based artwork that explores how the stories
BEN GANTCHER TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW CYCLE OF POEMS, THE PLEASURE OF DRAWING BOUNDARIES AND WHY TIME IS THE “AMINO ACID SOUP OF THE SELF.” COME HEAR HIM READ HIS NEW WORK ON 6/4. TICKETS HERE. Tell us about your project. An old alter ego, Doctor Caliban, had been surfacing around the time Ronit, Elissa and
LABA FELLOW ANDY TEIRSTEIN TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW MUSIC-THEATER WORK, THE PARADOX OF NOMADIC LIFE, AND THE JEWISH TEXTS ON TIME THAT RESONATED WITH HIM THE MOST. SEE “THE VAGABONDS” ON 6/4. TICKETS HERE. Tell us about your project. “The Vagabonds” begins with the characters of Kick, a street poet, and Pano, a mute boy.
JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE TEACHINGS AND INNOVATIVE ART AND PERFORMANCES INSPIRED BY ANCIENT JEWISH TEXTS. An exploration of the effect time has on our bodies and minds, and the effect our bodies and minds have on time. THU 6/4 7:30PM $20 TICKETS HERE FEATURING: MUSIC/ THEATER/DANCE “The Vagabonds” Andy Teirstein Andy Teirstein’s
SACRED TIME. SAT 5/23, 9PM FREE How do we make time holy? What boundaries, physical and emotional, do we have to cross? Join us for an exploration into these questions with learning, dance and digital art. Last February we had to cancel SACRED TIME because of a really bad snowstorm. We are pleased to let you
“A new day, or a new era, begins not with the start of new conditions, but with the demise of the old conditions.” Jenny Levison and Josh Waletzky discuss “The Last Dybbuk,” a devised theater work incorporating dance and music. Through it, they are investigating how we know when an ideology is no longer relevant. Come