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SHOUT ALOUD

A performance bringing together the Yasmeen Godder Company and Middle Eastern singer Dikla.

For many years, Yasmeen Godder has explored states of intimacy, endurance, resistance, and collective formation through her body and artistic practice, using a complex, charged, and sensitive physical language. In this work, she continues this research through a female, personal, and collective perspective, choosing to work with eight dancers of different ages and backgrounds, some of whom are long-time collaborators in her artistic journey. Together, they explore rituals of psychological and social transformation, seeking inner resources as a means of forming a multi-layered female collective: vulnerable, celebratory, and powerful at the same time.

Within this process, the influence of Dikla’s seminal debut album Ahava Musica (2000) has resonated for many years. The album opened a distinctive musical world shaped by Dikla’s deep, husky voice and personal lyrics addressing relationships, longing, loneliness, and fantasy, alongside a unique blend of classical Arabic music, energetic electronics, and experimental rock. In the performance, Dikla performs the album in its entirety in a newly arranged version, accompanied by live music using traditional and contemporary Arabic instruments.

The development of this special project began prior to October 7, and today it directly engages with the urgent need to connect, to heal, and to find shared relief-complex, fragile, and incomplete as it may be.

״An artistic experience rooted in somatic, attentive interaction that inspires belief in shared humanity.״ Hannah Meyer-Scharenberg, tanz

״Through her rich and, at times, conflict-laden dance language, Godder seems to articulate how deeply social structures have eroded today.״ Helmut Ploebst, DERSTANDARD

“The performance is a sophisticated, sensual, and electrifying display of Godder’s unique movement style, with its strange yet captivating, unsettling quality.” Ran Brown, Ha’aretz

“a compelling, powerful force that evokes a sense of upliftment, reminding us of the desire to live—a desire that stirs the wish to protect the possibility that life continues.” Anat Zacharia, Walla

“Shout Aloud” is a production by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Schauspiel Frankfurt and Yasmeen Godder Company. Coproduced by HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media) and the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain. The Yasmeen Godder Company is supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Israeli Lottery Council for Culture, and the Tel Aviv Council.

Special thanks to Etty & Michael Kenny, the Israeli Opera – Zach Granit and Suzanne Dellal Centre for their support