The “Toolbox” is a joint creative process whose goal is to formulate a unique working method/model tailored to the specific needs and abilities of the group’s members, through which participants can ultimately create a dance piece for the stage.

As dancers, we communicate with our bodies through movement. We believe that the immediacy of the body can enable any person to communicate with others, regardless of social constructs that may separate them, and to articulate, if only for a moment, their feelings and dreams through performance.

The ‘Toolbox” project, beyond being a meeting place between art and the ‘other’, is an opportunity for learning and growth.

Project initiators: Kim Taitelbaum and Moran Abergel

This project brings together blind people and professional dancers to share a space for joint learning and mutual inspiration. The project’s creative work process consists of weekly dance improvisation classes which will lead to the creation of dance pieces for the stage. During the classes all participants are asked to explore visual impairment as an opportunity to discover new possibilities for creativity. The participants deal with the challenge of working together and explore new ways to communicate through movement, allowing for the expression of participants’ personal experience.

At the end of the process, the dance pieces will be shared with an audience.

Project initiator: Shiri Teicher

Participating dance artists: Shiri Teicher, Jenny Birger, Aya Steigman, Nir Vidan, Maya Tamir