If I was packing it meant that we were crossing a threshold in our lives. Packing our household belongings had become a familiar activity, but each time its consequences were very different.

I remember holding my son`s sweater, suspended above the open carton box. While measuring the size of the sweater with my eyes, I realized that he will have soon outgrown it.  When my companion was very ill, I remember picking up the box that was filled with his clothes, and realizing that I had just packed his memory and our chances for another beginning.

I have chosen to perform In Between in an empty, unfurnished apartment, or a rough vacant lot that is not renovated. The audience will sit, on chairs of various styles, and on blanket spread on the floor by a baby`s crib, by piles of books, and by a table covered with food. The crib will be equipped with a blanket, a stuffed doll, and pajamas hung on the crib’s rail; the pile of books will consist of books about religion and philosophy; fresh vegetables and bread will be set, generously, on the table.

Opposite the seated audience, on the far end of the space and beyond a vacant area, I will be visible and enraptured in vocal expression. Every so often, I will stop and address the audience in Hebrew: “Is anyone hungry … does anyone want to eat?” Soon, the abstract vocal song will become intercepted with the question addressed, over and over in Hebrew, and with the crackling noises of sandwich paper being unwrapped, and the crunching sounds of carrots, cabbage, and cucumbers.

After the sound of my voice will have been mingled with the noises of eating and the petty conversations over the food, I will come to be quiet. I will then cross the vacant space in order to approach someone from the audience with whom I will interact while speaking in English. There will be one to three different situations which I will enact in various manners, with different individuals:  I will touch a person with the palm of my hand and describe what I physically feel; I will tell short stories about my family; I will escort and maneuver a person to a laying position.

The vocal overtures, the eating, and the interactions with the different persons, which I call “twosomes”, will recur as a sequence during the performance. Though the vocals will be recurring, they will not repeat themselves but rather adapt and react to the various situations. The twosomes will also recur but will be enacted in variations, with different persons, and will therefore expose different nuances of human behavior.

The critique that I have heard often is that certain expressions are too private or too individualistic to be exposed – in public. I have been preoccupied, I hope as others are, with the notion that privacy and individuality are eroded socially and politically. I hope In Between can arouse reactions and reflections about these manifestations.