Yasmeen Godder Company | Bare on Rust

The work positions five performers within a clean yet tension-laden space – a kind of living installation where movement, body, and sound function as the primary raw materials. The electronic-meditative score shapes an audio-visual environment that is at once present and elusive, stable yet mutable, inviting the viewer to encounter their own reflection through the piece.

The performers’ bodies are conceived as sites of research: they yield to the weight of time, respond to the urgency of the moment, and at times collapse deliberately into alternative states of being. Layers of skin become a charged, sensitive surface – a territory of materiality and vulnerability – where uncertainty evolves into a mode of existence.

Yasmeen Godder was born in Jerusalem and raised in New York City. Godder moved back to Israel in 1999 and has been based in Jaffa since. Her work has received both local and international acclaim and prizes. In recent years, her work focuses on the audience’s experience, re-defining the emotional and physical “meeting” that happens in a performative setting. Her company has two community projects: “Moving Communities”- weekly dance classes for people living with Parkinson’s disease, and “Na’ot Ma’Ba’ad” (Moving Together) dance workshops which bring together Arab and Jewish women, to create a joint, bilingual, and safe space for connection.

Choreography: Yasmeen Godder

Dramaturgy: Itzik Giuli

Creating Performers: Inbal Aloni, Yasmeen Godder, Anat Vaadia, Ilana Sarah Claire Bellahsen, Ofir Yannai

Stage and lights: Ofer Laufer

Original Music: Lior Pinsky

Costumes: Eran Shanny

Production and management: Omer Alsheich

Administrative manager and CFO: Dganit Turjeman