Omer Krieger (Israel), Florian Malzacher (Germany)
AMPHI is a performance piece for a Roman theatre, based on three elements: reconstruction of a dance created by choreographer Noa Eshkol in 1953 for the 10th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with professional and local amateur performers; New form of local memorial ceremony, summoning the memory of Jewish and Arab dead loved ones of the area; Performative assembly, staged and open-ended public discussion on current issues concerning the city and the country. AMPHI will premiere at the Roman theatre in Beit-She’an (Scythopolis). It aims to trace the foundations of performance in public space, forms of movement and the architecture serving it, while addressing the present time, with its forms of ritual, mourning, celebration, and the contemporary performance of collectivity and politics.This project is part of round 7 of the International Coproduction Fund, year 2019.