Valeska Gert Guest Professorship Saar Magal

14.02.2025 / 19:00 – 21:00

What are the fantasies that sustain our ideas about reality and the natural order? What occurs when these fantasies lose their grounding in living traditions? What forces move us toward or against change, and what might these transformations bring about?

As the Valeska Gert Guest Professor, Israeli director and choreographer Saar Magal collaborated with students to develop a performance research presentation inspired by the Book of Genesis and drawing on a diverse range of literary works.

Through the deconstruction of myths and narratives from both ancient and contemporary texts within the three Abrahamic traditions, Magal and the students explore and embody how these stories both shape and reflect societal transformations.

The Valeska Gert Guest Professorship for Dance and Performance is a cooperation between the Akademie der Künste, the Freie Universität Berlin and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz (Black Box), 10117 Berlin
In English
Admission free

Picture credit: (c) Magal/Lazarovitz