#Ruthie Abeliovich

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Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater

Finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and a 1952 radio play of Yaakov and Rachel (1928). Abeliovich traces the spoken language of modernist Hebrew theater as grounded in multiple modalities of expressive practices, including spoken Hebrew, Jewish liturgical sensibilities supplemented by Yiddish intonation and other vernacular accents, and in relation to prevalent theatrical forms. The book shows how these recorded performances provided Jewish immigrants from Europe with a venue for lamenting the decline of their home communities and for connecting their memories to the present. Analyzing sonic material against the backdrop of its artistic, cultural, and ideological contexts, Abeliovich develops a critical framework for the study of sound as a discipline in its own right in theater scholarship.

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“Playing with Virtual Realities” is an interdisciplinary research project, which brings together dancers and scholars in computer science, linguistic, VR experience design, performance philosophy, and choreography, into staging together dancing in VR technology. The project’s objective is to facilitate embodied understanding on how perception and practices are reshaped in the navigation between digital environments and analogue reality. ‘Playing’ became the main methodological approach for sharing our knowledge-systems, while bringing them into a mutual Practice-as-Research. Project’s director and choreographer: Einav Katan-Schmid Dancers-creators: Nitsan Margaliot, Lisanne Goodhue Creative team: Sabiha Ghellal, Ramona Mosse, Christian Stein, Thomas Lilge Technical support and VR operators: Meik Ramey, Norbert Schröck Child performer: Aurica Mosse Light design: Asier Solana, Einav Katan-Schmid Videos: Alexander Katan-Schmid, Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti, Thomas Kowalski Editing: Harumi Terayama Music: Madrugada Step Into This Room and Dance for Me Nine Inch Nails 06 Ghosts I 14 Ghosts II James Marvel Way of the Warrior (feat. MC Mota) Kraftwerk Morgenspaziergang Berliner Philharmoniker & Karl Böhm, Richard Strauss; Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) Nitsan Margaliot When I was a Virgin VR technology and applications used: HTC VIVE, HTC Corporation Lone Echo, Oculus Rift Masterpiece VR, Oculus Rift Space Pirate Trainer, I-Illusions TiltBrush, Google VR Playing with Virtual Realities has been realized by gamelab.berlin as part of Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Cluster of Excellence of Humboldt-University of Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project has been realized in collaboration with Institute for Games, Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart, and with the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Free University of Berlin. The premiere and the symposium of Playing with Virtual Realities took place at DOCK 11 Berlin, between 25-28.1.18. In association with The International Network of Performance Philosophy Thanks: Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Amaya Steinhilber, Matthäus Oelschläger, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti, Alexander Katan-Schmid, Aurica Mosse, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Friedrich Kirschner, Ruthie Abeliovich, Janice Ross, Wolfgang Schäffner, Scott DeLahunta, Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Sara Lisa Vogl, Alice Lagaay, Stephanie Amurao, Thomas Kowalski, J.Schulze & team CMS HU-Berlin. We are grateful for the help of Mo.Ré; a collective for movement research. CC (CC BY): This film is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://ift.tt/1iwynXF), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original creators and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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Gershom Scholem expressed the idea of language emission as a liminal repository in his 1917 essay “On Lament and Lamentation” (“Über Klage und Klaglied”), in which he defines the language of the border. 

As cited in Vocal Borderlines: A Study of a Lamentation Recording from...Habima’s Performance of The Eternal Jew by Ruthie Abeliovich

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Project’s director and choreographer: Einav Katan-Schmid Dancers-creators: Nitsan Margaliot, Lisanne Goodhue Creative team: Sabiha Ghellal, Ramona Mosse, Christian Stein, Thomas Lilge Technical support and VR operators: Meik Ramey, Norbert Schröck Child performer: Aurica Mosse Light design: Asier Solana, Einav Katan-Schmid Videos: Alexander Katan-Schmid, Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti Editing: Harumi Terayama Music: Nine Inch Nails 14 Ghosts II VR technology and applications used: HTC VIVE, HTC Corporation Lone Echo, Oculus Rift Masterpiece VR, Oculus Rift Space Pirate Trainer, I-Illusions TiltBrush, Google VR Playing with Virtual Realities has been realized by gamelab.berlin as part of Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Cluster of Excellence of Humboldt-University of Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project has been realized in collaboration with Institute for Games, Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart, and with the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Free University of Berlin. The premiere and the symposium of Playing with Virtual Realities took place at DOCK 11 Berlin, between 25-28.1.18. In association with The International Network of Performance Philosophy Thanks: Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Amaya Steinhilber, Matthäus Oelschläger, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti, Alexander Katan-Schmid, Aurica Mosse, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Friedrich Kirschner, Ruthie Abeliovich, Janice Ross, Wolfgang Schäffner, Scott DeLahunta, Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Sara Lisa Vogl, Alice Lagaay, Stephanie Amurao, Thomas Kowalski, J.Schulze & team CMS HU-Berlin. We are grateful for the help of Mo.Ré; a collective for movement research. CC (CC BY): This film is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://ift.tt/1iwynXF), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original creators and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.