Karen Alkalay-Gut, her band 'Thin Lips' during Barbi club performance
Photo: Ezra Gut
‘Love Soup’ served at Israel Festival
Israel Festival to feature multimedia show based on poems by Karen Alkalay-Gut on the difficulty of creating, maintaining relationships. ‘But the show is full of fun images and not philosophy,’ Alkalay-Gut says
The 2006 Israel Festival will feature “Love Soup,” a multimedia show based on the poems of Karen Alkalay-Gut on the difficulty of creating and maintaining relationships.
“The songs, which were written under the influence of Marin Buber’s philosophy, moved from alienation and pain to wisdom and connection,” Alkalay-Gut explains.
“The 'soup' is our emotional nutrition, what we give one another, and how we sustain ourselves. The soup is also the multimedia concept, in which all the very individualistic artists, coming from very different backgrounds, unite in a healthy dialogue.”
According to Alkalay-Gut, the poems presented in the show through music, dance and video are based on the principle that “there has to be a concept of ‘self’ before a person can establish a relation with an ‘other’.”
How sweet of you to notice my agony, my dear
How kind of you to inquire again
We will leave it at that, of course
Even I have my limit of pain (Sweet)
“But the show is full of fun images and not philosophy,” she says. “And Mick Jagger is just as much a part of the poem as Martin Buber.
The Love Soup Company also includes composer Roy Yarkoni, dancer and choreographer Iris Erez, singer Yael Krauss, musicians Ishay Sommer, Galia Hai and Boris Martzinovsky and Videoart by Delight.
The show is directed and produced by Dalit Ziv.
The performance, which will include Hebrew translations of the poems, is scheduled for May 29 at the special festival stage outside the Henry Crown Hall, near the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts, at 9 p.m. Entrance is NIS 30. Wear warm clothes.
