Undying in Yidderland

“Are we the echo whose voice centuries could not stifle?” - Edmond Jabés

We are the inhabitants of Yidderland, actors in communication with ancestors in the present-past-future. We channel a model of Jewishness–– one that understands Judaism as a diasporic tradition of ever-changing practices that emerge out of intra-cultural relationships. Our performance borrows its structure from a Jewish funeral procession: a moving and sounding body that pauses 7 times for contemplation. But instead of reciting the prayer per tradition, each pause is a ritual act spoken in Yidderish; a language built through the dissection and embodiment of Yiddish without learning the language. 

Are we holding a funeral for Yiddish? We don’t think so. We are voicing the echo of diaspora.

Undying in Yidderland uses the invisible inheritances of gesture, emotion, and instinct to move towards a reimagined future.

Created in collaboration with: lim mui, Gry Tingskog, Eli Berman, Raha Dehghani Vinicheh, Anna Lublina, Jerry Lieblich, Laura Stellacci

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE

PAST PERFORMANCE

March 24-26, 2023, 4pm: Mousonturm Künstlerhaus

July 5-6, 2024: MADE.Festival Hessen

Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Frankfurt Kulturamt, Giessen Kulturamt, Hessische Theater Akademie.