Listening to the Planets

Name: Listening to the Planets - Ari Teperberg
Start: 2025-03-13T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Frascati

Ari Teperberg

Tue 11 Mar ’25 - Thu 13 Mar ’25

A bare solo piece that combines text, sound, movement and object work.

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Tue 11 Mar ’25

21:00

Try-out

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Wed 12 Mar ’25

21:00

Première

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Thu 13 Mar ’25

21:00

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I am listening to The Planets (1917), a monumental orchestral piece by the British composer Gustav Holst. Can you hear it through me? It transforms into words, images, movement. I try to listen even deeper and hear the artist writing it, navigating a brutal war to which he did not enlist. His music turns on stage into matter in motion - it orbits, gets distorted, disappears and reappears.

I listen again and hear his attempt to address a system so greater and mightier than our existence, wishing for perspective and distance from the violence and despair of our own kind. His sounds become a vehicle with which to travel far into the distant ends of the universe, where they reach past the threshold of perception and fade out.

By splitting and extending myself I measure the various distances around and within me, tracing the delay between the sending of my messages and their arrival. Am I the satellite or its planet?

The act of art-making becomes a means for time-travel, bridging between a time of crisis and an imagined future: It forges a piece of life within despair and violence into form that will hopefully outlive the darkness and preserve some of its turbulence in order to support a belief in the artistic act as a possibility for an empathetic and peaceful exchange.

Listening to the Planets is a bare solo piece that combines text, sound, movement and object work. It weaves together a personal journal of the performer with a historical research about a composer, along with abstract images that derive from the study of satellites, star constellations, communication and delay.

Duration: 50 mins.

Credits

maker and performer Ari Teperberg sound dramaturgy and design Nathan Marcus light design Paulina Prokop costume Caz Egelie dramaturgy Ricarda Franzen outside eye Isadora Tomasi, Thommy Kraft object advice Oded Yadin Rimon artistic advice Sister Sylvester special thanks to Inbal Yomtovian, Sjaron Minailo, Dor Frank, Sonia Kazovsky, Sandberg Instituut

The first version of the piece was presented as part of the Sandberg Instituut graduation show, concluding the master’s program Re:Master Opera.

About the maker

Rosenblum Prize laureate 2022, Ari Teperberg graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem in 2013. His works have been touring internationally since 2010 - Untitled Document, And my Heart Almost Stood Still, Jonathan and the Blue Table. During Amsterdam Fringe 2024 And my Heart Almost Stood Still was performed in Frascati.

In his works, Ari Teperberg constructs performative mechanisms that take place between the sensory, cognitive and emotional systems of the audience and the performer(s). Fascinated with distance, voice and the eternal struggle to communicate, his research-driven works invite for a world of sound, movement, action and object.

Ari collaborated as artistic director, director and maker with FeelBeit (or ‘Mekudeshet’) in Jerusalem - an organization jointly directed by Palestinians and Jews focusing on art and culture from the perspective of a shared reality. Ari has a longtime collaboration as a dancer in the Yasmeen Godder Company, and performed for Yonatan Levy, Ana Wild, Caz Egelie, Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir and more. Ari taught in theatre, dance, opera and puppetry frameworks, and gives workshops sharing his working method "Performative Mechanisms".