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To Break Up With I’

A breakup ritual: Naama breaks up with the “I” that Israel has constructed within her. 

Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin 

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Outside of performance times, the space will be open as an interactive installation inviting visitors to read, listen, explore, and write letters to their homelands.

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To Break Up With I’ is an intimate storytelling performance in which Naama breaks up with her home country, Israel, as a personal act of resistance. The public is invited into a cozy space holding the tension of a breakup aesthetic. The performance navigates between imagination, reality, politics, and intimacy through an honest, sensitive narration of memories. By using reading, records, voice, and movement, Naama is tracing the transition of her identity. Placing another Jewish, ex-Israeli voice that asks for freedom between the river and the sea and peace.

 

Join us for an after-talk on September 6, following the second performance at 8:15 PM.

Biography

Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin (b. 1996, Israel/occupied Palestine) is a political movement artist based in Brussels, continuously searching for ways to find hope in a burning world. She began dancing at the age of four and has since developed an eclectic physical language, weaving together a wide range of movement practices. In 2018, she completed a two-year choreography program at the RE-SEARCH center, and in 2023, she earned a master’s in choreography and performance from ISAC (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts).  

Naama sees artistic creation and research as forms of care, both private and public. She looks at art as a space to reflect, think, and react to the reality surrounding it. Her work is profoundly political from its base, aiming to deconstruct systemic power relations with compassion through the poetic potential of artistic practice. She combines physical and vocal practices with writing and theoretical research. Exploring how power systems manifest within the human body and contribute to various pathologies. Her practice is inspired by elemental forces—water, fire, earth—and she believes in magic. 

credits

Creator and Performer: Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin 
Outside Eye: Félix Rapela, Anna Zelikova
Producer: Anna Poels
Poster image: (c) Oscar Weiss 
Other images: Malou Van den Heuvel 
Support: ISAC, RADAR, De Markten, Le Bamp, Par Hasard, Kunstendecreet (BE), Fundaziun Nairs (CH), Stichting Another Shot, Janivo Stichting (NL)
Special Thanks: Lore D Selys, Yoav Lewin, Sarah Lewin, Sarah Hendrickx, Adva Zakai, Pablo Fernández Fernández, Christina Wildgrube, Agnes Siegenthaler and Federica Zatta
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