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A three-day workshop, which will take place on 13-15/10, meeting every day between the hours 10:00-13:00 at the School of Visual Theatre. Registration is possible for the entire workshop only, partial attendance or switching between workshops, will not be permitted. The workshop is open to students and graduates.

In “Soft Temples”, a technology is created, expressing the graphic shapes of the Henrew alphabet. Each letter has a gesture or a simple choreographic sequence, associatively following its shape. Once we learn the choreography of each letter, we could express a verbal text, involving our entire bodies in its writing. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has deep meanings, appearing in Jewish scripture and mystical knowledge. But we act through the body, in a simple, easy, playful manner – assuming the body already knows. And thus, a new writing system is created, where wishes are written by limbs and organs, bones and muscles – into the world. The program of prayer produces more and more physical information, at once both revealed for anyone to see, and secret, bewitched.

The starting point for the project “Soft Temples” is an acknowledgment of the body as a temple, where the human prayer springs and takes place. From this point on, it invites us to wander and travel through the conscience and subconscience, areas where the prayer asks to be delivered out of the body – and into the sublime, to the imaginary, existing or invented. The prayer, much like dance, is pre-theoretical. It is a means for the soul to vitaly express itself; the prayer asks to revive what is beyond the physical, aiming for contact with the spirit through words and the body.

Anat Danieli is an artist, choreographer and teacher, who looks at the world as a choreographic event, arranges and grasps reality by considering each and every occurrence and thing existing as a matter subjected to change, development and creation. This conception is expressed through her desire to avoid separation between creation processes and life itself.

Anat created works for Bat-Sheva and Anat Danieli Dance Company, which toured around Israel and abroad. She is the laureate of the Gertrud Crause Prize, Shades of Dance Prize, the Minister of Education prize for a young artist, the Creation Prize awarded by the ministry of Culture and Sports, The Rosenblum Prize for arts of the Stage awarded by the Tel-Aviv municipality, And the 2022 Landau Prize for arts and science. Anat was a co-founder of Kelim Choreography Center in Bat-Yam. She creates and dances her own pieces, as well as collaborating with different artists, mentoring creation processes, researching and articulating the practice “Applied Choreography”.