When I was a child my teachers called me Sunshine / I would go to sleep whenever I wanted / And each morning I would eat a bowl of star-shaped cereals / One day I grew up / I had a child in my belly / His heart was bigger than his intestines / And he knew what everybody was thinking / One day he grew so much till he ran out of room / Then he fell till he had no ground / Then he broke till he had no bones / Then he prayed
A bunch of overgrowns try to hang one on top of each other without falling. They open their hearts and feed everybody’s needs, stay close and try to numb out their longing. They touch the clouds and collide. Their necks are too long and their legs stay far behind, collapsing from being overweight.
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Choreography, text and stage design: Judy Adini / Co-performers: Shani Arazy, Lia Eshel, Dori Cohen Forster, Yaheli Nissim Kobliner, Hila Venezia / Original score: Daniel Iwryn / Light design: Rotem Levi / Producer: Moksha Maya Kashani
Acknowledgments: Amit Mann, Chantal Cohen, Maya Levy, Merav Peleg, Sigal Nataf, Tsuf Kachta, Menahem Goldenberg, Ruth Wieder, Merav Ben David, Nir Shauloff, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, Guy Gutman, Eitan Buganim, Nava Frenkel, Yonatan Levy, Amir Drori, Leah Stora, Ihab Froukh, Gidon Levy, Matin Kantor, Nir Ish-Shalom (Mishka), Omer Sheizaf, Naama Avni, Michal Ma’ayan Koren, Avia Ben-Avi, Avigail Kochavy, Shani Arazi, Sahar Harary, Moksha Kashani, my parents, Uri.
Thanks to the big giraffes in my life, my teachers, the lockdown times and what they opened up.
The work contains nudity.