Untitled Document

About the show:

I write on a blank document.

You read. 

The soft rhythm of my typing connects us.

Letter follows letter as I navigate wide across the internet and deep into my memory in search of forgotten stories, lost voices and inventions.

A solo performance in a Google-Doc, amusedly and poignantly weaving an intricate web of relations between voice, identity, technology, memory and loss.

The departure point for this creation process was research into the invention of the telephone, and observations on its development history through different human-machine interaction systems in the neverending human quest to overcome distance.

Parallel to that, a subculture of phone-hackers arose, discovering loop-holes in what was now the biggest machine in the world. They found each other by “misusing” the telephone, thus creating alternative, virtual encounter spaces, motivated primarily by pure curiosity, playfulness, loneliness and deep listening.

Bios:

In his works Ari constructs performative mechanisms that take place between the sensory, cognitive and emotional systems of the audience and the performer(s). Fascinated with distance, voice and the eternal struggle to communicate, his research-driven works invite for a world of sound, movement, action and object.

Ari, theatre and opera director, dancer and teacher, is Rosenblum Prize laureate 2022. He graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem in 2013 and recently obtained his master’s degree from Sandberg Instituut. Amsterdam, in the department Re:Master Opera.

His works have been touring internationally since 2010 – Untitled Document,  And my Heart Almost Stood Still, Jonathan and the Blue Table.

He collaborated as artistic director, director and maker with FeelBeit (or ‘Mekudeshet’) in Jerusalem – an organization jointly directed by Palestinians and Jews focusing on art and culture from the perspective of a shared reality.

Credits:

Created and performed by Ari Teperberg

Lighting design and scenography: Omer Sheizaf

Sound design: Lior Pinsky

Costume design: Dor Frank

Assistant director: Yael Sady

Producer: Dana Galanti

Artistic consultation: Moran Aviv Dvir, Tamar Kisch

International relations: as is presenting arts