Mota 2003

Paideia – The European Institute
for Jewish Studies in Sweden
presents Month of the Arts
January 29 – March 2, 2003
How are Jewish sources, such as the Torah, the Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah,
being interpreted in contemporary art? And how can our experiences of the arts
be transformed by the challenge of traditional sources?
Art in Dialogue with Je
Drama, Art, Film and
Musical Performances
This is the dialogue that forms the core of
Paideia’s ”Month of the Arts”. The collection
of performances and events will not only give
audiences the opportunity to see accomplished
artists presenting and performing their works,
but also partake in events encompassing text
analyses/readings, lectures and workshops.
Lecturers well versed in their subjects will be
on hand to guide us through texts and and reflect
on the ways art manifests itself and its sources
of inspiration. Our hope is that this dialogue of
arts and texts will serve as a platform enabling
a flow of communication between different
audiences, peoples and communities.
Chevruta
Students
at Paideia.
Cover picture:
Ruth Wieder-Magan,
The Jerusalem
Theatre Company.
wish Sources
Below:
A Talmudist in Cracow.
Published by the Salon
Malarzy Polskich, 1901.
Music in Dialogue
with Jewish Sources
Wednesday January 29 at 19.00
The Concert House, Aulinsalen. Tickets: sek 120.
1. Opening Ceremony, Lecture and Concert
Paideia’s Director, Barbara Spectre and
Educator Clive Lawton, describe and demonstrate the classical Jewish method of study and
describe how the Jewish Sources have inspired
legendary artists. Composer and conductor
Alexander Freudenthal will join in the discussion
and will later take the floor with his big band,
the ”Freudenthal Yiddish Big Band”.
t i c k e ts ava i l a b l e at t h e co n c e rt h o u s e b ox
office: phone +46-8-5o 66 77 88 [open mon – fri
1 1 – 1 8 s at 1 1 – 1 5 ] , at atg - o u t l e ts o r by c a l l i n g
+ 4 6 - 7 7 - 1 7 o 7 o 7 o , w w w. ko n s e rt h u s e t. s e .
Alexander Freudenthal
Dr. Liane Alitowski
Thursday January 30 at 19.00
The Concert House, Aulinsalen. Tickets: sek 120.
2. ”Savor de Ladino – A Taste of Ladino”
– Presentation and Performance
Paideia’s scholar-in-residence and pianist
Dr. Liane Alitowski hosts with text and music.
Katarina Hellgren and her ensemble will perform
classical Ladino songs along with a world premiere of newly written songs by Yair Sapir. The
ensemble consists of Gunhildur Gudmundsdóttir
cello, Oskar Lindberg guitar and accordion and
Simon Stålspets bouzouki and mandola.
t i c k e ts ava i l a b l e at t h e co n c e rt h o u s e b ox
office: phone +46-8-5o 66 77 88 [open mon – fri
1 1 – 1 8 s at 1 1 – 1 5 ] , at atg - o u t l e ts o r by c a l l i n g
+ 4 6 - 7 7 - 1 7 o 7 o 7 o , w w w. ko n s e rt h u s e t. s e .
Saturday February 1 at 19.00
Bromma Culture School, Växtverket, Arenan,
Kapplandstrappan, T-bana Brommaplan.
Tickets: sek 140 [sek 80 Members of Svenska
Klezmerföreningen].
3. ”The Strauss Warshauer Duo” Debora
Strauss and Jeff Warshauer from New York
perform a concert.
On stage we present two of the most respected
artists and teachers in the Klezmer and Yiddish
arena. They draw from Klezmer, Yiddish, Hassidic
and liturgical music and culture, adding their
own original compositions and song settings
from delicate and refined to the exuberant
including foot-stomping.
Ritual Art
in Dialogue
with Jewish
Sources
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l at e r t h a n 3 o m i n . b e f o re t h e s ta rt o f
t h e co n c e rt. w w w. k l e z m e r. n u .
”Kidush Cup” by Tobi Kahn.
Sunday February 2 at 16.00
Teaterstudio Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13.
Tickets: sek 120.
4. The Kinorensemble perform a dramatized
concert – ”Purim-Shpiel” with Semmy Stahlhammer violin, Marc Power violin, Torbjörn
Helander viola, Isabel Blommé cello, Johan Ullén
piano, Björn Salomonsson clarinet and vocal.
t i c k e ts at w w w. t e at e r l e d e r m a n . n u ,
o r by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 3 o 3 o 9 4 .
Monday February 3 at 14.00
Stallet – Folk and World Music, Stallgatan 7.
Tickets: sek 50.
5. ”The Strauss Warschauer Duo”
Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer present
a lecture generously illustrated with Yiddish,
Klezmer, Hassidic and liturgical music. Both
members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band,
they are two of the most respected artists and
teachers on the Klezmer scene.
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Tuesday to Thursday, February 4–6 at 19.00
The Jewish Museum, Hälsingegatan 2.
Tickets: sek 75 [sek 200 for series].
6. Workshops and lecture with the painter and
sculptor Tobi Kahn of the Avoda Institute. His work
has been shown in over 25 solo exhibitions, at 70
museum and gallery shows. It has challenged the
viewer’s eye and heart to find abstraction within
nature. The life of spirit is integrally bound up with
the beauty of the world, with the rituals and symbols that are a Jewish medium to transcendence.
Tobi Kahn will utilize creative ritual objects and
art as a medium to investigate Jewish sources.
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t h e t i c k e ts by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 3 1 o 1 4 3 ,
t i c k e ts at t h e d e s k n y b ro k a j e n 1 1 , o pe n
we e k d ay s 1 2 – 1 7 , by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 4 o 7 1 7 o o ,
w w w. j u d i s k a - m u s e e t. a . s e .
Drama in Dialogue
with Jewish Sources
Thursday February 6 at 19.00
Hollandersalen, Judiska Centret, Nybrogatan
19–21. Free entry.
7. ”The Bible and Israeli Theatre”
Lecture by Freddie Rokem, Professor of Theatre
and Head of the Faculty of Art at Tel Aviv University. 90 min. The Bible has been a central
source of inspiration for Israeli theatre. Many
of these performances have an avant garde
character. The lecture is illustrated with
video clips.
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Saturday February 8 at 19.00
Teaterstudio Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13.
Tickets: sek 120.
8. ”The Theory of Everything” written and
performed by Stephen Rappaport, directed by
Judith Hollander. 75 min. The performance
makes use of quantum physics, butoh dance,
theology, Jungian psychology, past life regression and the experiences of a prostituted actor,
to try to find forgiveness for Adolf Hitler.
Or is it just a way for a German manufacturer
to sell more beer? Performance and text study.
t i c k e ts at w w w. t e at e r l e d e r m a n . n u ,
o r by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 3 o 3 o 9 4 .
Stephen Rappaport
”Sara – Take 2”
The Jerusalem
Theatre Company
Sunday February 9 at 16.00
Teaterstudio Lederman, Gästrikegatan 13.
Tickets: sek 75.
9. ”Lips of Time”
Ruth Wieder-Magan takes the audience on
a musical-historical voyage in search of the
woman’s voice embedded in ancient prayers
[and lamentations] of lost Jewish communities
in East and West. In her textual study she
reveals the energetic qualities inherent in the
sounds of speech and how they convey the
messages hidden in the language.
t i c k e ts at w w w. t e at e r l e d e r m a n . n u ,
o r by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 3 o 3 o 9 4 .
Monday February 10 and Tuesday February 11
10. Jerusalem Theatre Company gives three
exclusive workshops in 1. Writing Manuscripts
2. Acting 3. Voice. The workshops are led by
actors and faculties from the group. Numbers
of places are limited.
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The Jerusalem Theatre Company has made guest
appearances around the world and won several
prizes. The company are world-leaders in bringing together traditional writings, contemporary
theatre and music. They mix ancient legends and
contemporary interpretations and build on the
female perspective, with their performances
bringing new life to the biblical first mothers.
Wednesday February 12 at 19.00
Thursday February 13 at 19.00
Stockholm Culture House, Kilen. Tickets: sek 160.
11–12. ”Sara – Take 2”
Guest performance by ”The Jerusalem Theatre
Company” from Israel. The play’s use of biblical
and midrashic sources interspersed with an
ethnic mixture of Ladino, Yiddish, contemporary
poetic Hebrew and slang, creates a field of
dynamic polarities in which the trajectories of
Sara’s voice emerge. Sara, the mother of Jewish
people, dies as the New Year begins. On this day
she learns of the Akedah, [of the binding of her
son Isaac] who was almost slaughtered by his
father as a sacrifice to G-d.
t i c k e ts at w w w. k u lt u r h u s e t. s to c k h o l m . s e ,
ph o n e + 4 6 - 8 - 5 o 6 2 o 2 o o.
Saturday February 15 at 19.00
Stallet, Folk and World Music, Stallgatan 7.
Tickets: sek 50.
13. Concert and Dance with ”Tummel”
Learn some steps, listen to some music, and then
hit the dance floor again. Dance instruction by
Leon Blank and Edith Haglund.
tickets at the desk nybrokajen 11, open weekd ay s 1 2 – 1 7 , by c a l l i n g + 4 6 - 8 - 4 o 7 1 7 o o a n d at
the venue before the concert. www.stallet.st.
Film in Dialogue
with Jewish Sources
Memory, European History and Jewish Tradition. These three subjects form the
focus of this year’s Jewish film days. One film offers an analysis of the role of
memory for Jewish culture while another reflects upon how people in the modern
world try to conquer their history. Two other productions present pictures of two
women in very different social positions as they reflect on their lives – one as the
private secretary of Adolf Hitler, the other as a mother and doctor in an
Ukranian city just captured by the Nazi forces.
Tickets [sek 40] for no. 14–17 are available
45 minutes before each showing at the desk
at Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1–5, Gärdet, from
February 12. Tell the clerk you come from Paideia.
All films are in English or subtitled in English.
Sunday February 16 at 16.00
Filmhuset, Bio Mauritz, Borgvägen 1–5, Gärdet.
14. Film and Panel, ”Jizkor – slaves of memory”
97 min. France 1990. By Eyal Sivan. Every spring,
life in Israel is dominated for thirty days by four
celebrations that commemorate the past. We
follow the road from child to adult and from
school to army to acquire some insights as to
how this ”official memory” is drummed into
each civilian. A controversial film about identity
and survival. Participants in the panel are the
filmmaker Eyal Sivan, the Jewish scholar and
Director of Paideia Barbara Spectre, Professor
of Social Psychology Lars Dencik, and documentary filmmaker Pearl Gluck.
Jizkor – slaves of memory
community the filmmaker left as a teenager.
Pearl Gluck is a young American documentary
filmmaker. This is her first feature length film.
Monday February 17: Text study at 17.30,
Film at Bio Mauritz at 19.00
Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1–5, Gärdet.
15. Text study and Preview Screening ”Divan”
80 min. USA 2002. By Pearl Gluck. Divan is an unorthodox approach to a turn-of-the-century family
heirloom, a couch upon which Hasidic rebbes once
slept. From Boro Park in Brooklyn to a corner of
Northeast Hungary, Divan is a visual parable
about a religious icon that celebrates the Hasidic
Tuesday February 18: Text study at 17.30,
Film at Bio Victor at 19.00
Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1–5, Gärdet.
16. Film and Text study ”Blind Spot – Hitler’s
Secretary” 90 min. Austria 2001. By André Heller
and Othmar Schmiderer.
She dreamt of becoming a dancer, but applied for
a job as Hitler’s private secretary. As she grew
older Traudl Junge had more and more qualms
about this naïve decision borne of ignorance.
The Austrian filmmakers’ idea to make the interview and film with Traudl Junge came just in
time – she passed away last February, just after
the film was finished. The film received the
Audience Award at the Berlinale 2002.
Wednesday February 19: Film at 19.00
Bio Victor, Lecture at 20.15 Bio Mauritz
Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1–5, Gärdet.
17. Film and lecture, ”The Last Letter”
61 min. France 2002. By Frederick Wiseman.
A stage adaptation in french of the novel ”Life
and Fate” by Vassili Grossman. Anna Semionova
is a Russian Jewish doctor living in a small town
in the Ukraine just captured by the Germans.
She writes a last letter to her son who dwells
safely behind the front lines. The letter recounts
major events in her life. Gradually Anna realizes
that her Jewish heritage is more important to
her than her Russian nationality and Communist
beliefs. ”Certainly not just another Holocaust
film but an outstanding filmmaking masterpiece.
The perfect conjunction of director, cast and
material” [Variety]. This film will also be
screened at Bio Sture, February 21 at 17.30.
The bi-valence of being Jewish in 20th century Eastern Europe
Lecture by Professor Kristian Gerner, Lund
University, presently researching the Holocaust
in European historical culture.
Tickets [sek 40] for no. 18–20 are available at
the Jewish Center or by calling +46-8-587 858 65.
Sunday February 23 at 18.00
Hollandersalen, Judiska Centret, Nybrogatan 19–21.
18. A lecture by documentary filmmaker Pearl
Gluck with film sequences and some reflections
on Jewish documentary filmmaking. Pearl asks
whether we have come to the stage where we
can talk of a Jewish documentary film tradition.
Who were the pioneers and what effect did
dealing with the issues of identity and culture
have on them?
Monday February 24 at 18.00
Hollandersalen, Judiska Centret, Nybrogatan 19–21.
19. Continuation of Lecture and Film clips
with the documentary filmmaker Pearl Gluck.
Sunday March 2 at 13.00
Hollandersalen, Judiska Centret, Nybrogatan 19–21.
20. Homosexuality in Contemporary Jewish
Life and Debate
Text, films and panel that will bring up the focus
on the subject of homosexuality and Jewish life.
The two films shown are ”Trembling before G-d”
and ”Chicks in White Satin” followed by text
interpretations and discussions on the Jewish
homosexuality life. Participation from the Jewish
Community.
The Month of the Arts is produced with the support of: The Swedish Integration Board,
Avoda: Objects of the Spirit, Embassy of Israel, The Cultural Committee of the Jewish
Community of Stockholm, The Swedish Film Institute.
And in good cooperation with: Stockholm Culture House, Stockholm’s Jewish Film Festival,
The Jewish Museum in Stockholm, The Swedish Klezmer Association, Teaterstudio Lederman,
Stallet RfoD, Stockholm Concert Hall.
This program is subject to change. Swedish version on: www.paideia-eu.org.
Producer of Month of the Arts: Netta Frister Aaron. Filmweek by Kerstin Allroth-Dencik.
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