

Kartoshkes
Ensemble
Kartoshkes Ensemble is a professional playback theater ensemble improvising real life stories. The Kartoshkes ensemble is a traveling theater that performs around the world in both English and Hebrew. The group works with diverse audiences ranging from religious audiences, to disadvantaged youth, disabled people, social workers and doctors as well as within the business sector particularly for managers of hi-tech companies and privet events...
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About our co-existence activity
Recognizing the special ability of our work to listen and respect stories from different communities, we started in recent years to work with Palestinian communities in the west bank. Given the current political and security situation, and given that our group is composed mainly of Israeli-jewish members, this was, and still is, a challenging activity. Nevertheless, we have managed to organize and conduct unforgettable Playback performances and workshops in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In those meeting's we experienced the ability of our work to bridge between people, communities and opinions. Our improvisation is based on cooperation, deep listening and creative responses. These elements are being employed in the context of human stories. These stories are based on basic and common human feelings, feelings of love, hate, fear and longing. During our performances we see these feeling being conducted into the stage, and being transformed into different realms. Sitting together in this circle we share an experience that connect us and the audience, and people in the audience among themselves. This experience allows us to remember our commonalities, and to dream together on a better world, world of mutual respect and peace.
Our co-existence work is spearheaded by one of our members, Dorit Lubrani, a choir conductor in Arab-Israeli Center and opera singer, who is involved in promoting Israeli/Palestinian co-existence for many yeas. Among her many activities, she has established and led two Israeli-Arab choirs in Jaffa, winning recently the I prize at the Bat-Yam International street festival.