Song, Piano, and Keyboards: Shlomi Shaban

Choreography and Dance: Hu Shenyuan - China, Margot Gelber - USA, Burak Kayıhan - Turkey, Gil Kaerer - Israel, Tomo Sone - Japan, Jennifer Cohen - Israel, Jessie Lee Thorne - USA, Miriam Engel - Israel.

Artistic Direction: Miriam Engel and Shlomi Shaban

Shlomi Shaban is known for his immersive performances - his solo shows are widely known and compose a central part of his extensive artistic work thanks to his charismatic presentations, virtuosic performance, and narrative and unique songs.

In a world premiere under the artistic direction of Miriam Engel and Shlomi Shaban, Shaban's solo show will turn into a carousel of duets from arround the world, and will try to tell a new story.

Through new choreographies and musical performances created especially for this evening, Shlomi's songs will provide a living and stimulating soundtrack for a dance performance that will move between the romantic and the brutal, the personal and the national, between movement and music, and between the written and the improvised.

On the stage Shlomi's songs will become raw material in the hands of Israeli and international choreographers and dancers, and will tell a story that begins with an invitation to dance.

How will his songs - which are so deeply rooted in Israeli culture - be seen through the foreign eyes of creators from China, America, Turkey and Japan? And will Shlomi accept the direct, innocent, and complicated invitation - to leave the piano and just dance?

At the end of the show, the audience is invited to a glass of wine and a celebratory toast