For over forty years, Dudi Maayan has been a pioneering, disruptive, and formative voice in the performance scene in Israel. From Akko to Shlomi, to Vienna and back, remained a wellspring of abundant and inspiring creation. Across life and art, he is one of the clearest and most profound guides to performance in Israel and beyond. In his radical and iconic works, art becomes a daring space of memory and recollection, blending truth with fiction, pleasure with pain, and trauma with beauty. Diver Festival dedicates this exploration to Maayan’s work at a time when we are being shaken to our core, and when the fundamental questions of art-making are more urgent than ever, demanding syntax, meaning, and direction. Throughout its history, Diver has remained committed to performing across generations, seeking out parents and teachers through whom a living tradition takes shape. We will gather to present Maayan’s work not merely as a historical archive, but as a living and active thought about the world within us, and being within it.
