MELT … & more – body and site related performances
Some weeks ago I really could imagine how she felt …. “When I first came to new York it was so unbearable hot. It’s the feeling that your body is going to disintegrate and the body as material. ...” (link) and coming across the announcement of the upcoming NYC performances I discovered these really interesting projects. Next to Melt I especially would like to see the upcoming White Box, where I very much like the idea and description. Explore for yourself … Sens Productions
| After touring the world, MELT returns to New York for a two-week run. With this full evening-length version of MELT, Lafrance invites audiences | |
| to a stunning industrial site used by the city to store salt, located under the Manhattan Bridge in Lower Manhattan. During the highs of NYC’s heat waves, MELT | |
The Heart of Jenin bringing forward the Cinema of Jenin
.. a fascinating story comes to one very visible result, where the reconstruction of a former site was an important factor of participation:
The seeds for this €1m renovation project were sown in 2005 when Ismael Khatib’s 11-year-old son Ahmed was shot dead by the Israeli Army and the grieving father decided to donate his son’s organs to save the lives of Israeli children. Khatib’s action provided the inspiration for Marcus Vetter and Leon Schiller’s award-winning documentary The Heart Of Jenin.
A year later, Khatib opened the Cuneo Center for Peace for the children of Jenin’s refugee camp as an alternative for their street life. Among the centre’s activities, film courses were offered to the children for them to make short films, only to realize
