2011
Present, future & past projects
(click below on the bold words, they are secret links to more info...)
December
Warm Winter Wishes
press here for a little surprise
22nd- Extract from In Between at Brik Box, Tooting Market, London.
18th- Winter lights of Hollingdean- 5pm at Bill Crescent, saint Richard's Church. A community celebration for Hollingdean in Brighton, which offered a series of 3 weekends workshops in craft, music, chorus, dance and outdoors theatre to all age groups, including a 65+ group. Come to our spectacular outdoors Parade led by the company with the community participants as well as a film, celebrating Light. Supported by Awards for All.
15th- Invisible Bridges- a book project by Boca to Mouth led by Xelis de toro, 30 poems and 13 works of artists from various diciplines reacting to the poems, included in the book in a DVD. an evening introducing the book with various performances, 8pm at the Red Roaster Cafe, Brighton.
6th- Punched a puppetry event for adults 8pm @The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
3rd-The Geomancers at the Unorthobox 22h at Brik box Tooting, London.
Yael Karavan and Bruno Humerto premiere a brand-new performance, devised especially for this event. for more info click here...
In every generation, there are many people who have a potential to become Geomancers. However, there is only two Geomancers operating at a time. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to our absurd world, adapted specifically to unorthobox, shifting between clown acts, circus mishaps, choreographed marches, objects, storytelling and live music. The Geomancers are here to take you on an unforgettable journey into the unknown…
November
26th&27th- The Karavan Ensemble start their new project Winter Light in Hollingdean Suported by Awards for All a serie of 3 week end workshops leading to a Light procession performance on the 18th of December at 6pm in Hollingdean.
24th- 8pm at The Marlborogh theatre, Brighton. Watch Video Here
12th- In- Between in Recife, Brazil. 
7th-11th- The Body Speaks workshop in Recife, Brazil, hosted by Groupo peleja- Olinda.
31st-4th- A Ship of Fools workshop @ Lume Nucleus Sao Paulo.
2nd- Performance of Poupik with Naomi Silman at the opening of White City, the Israeli Panel at Oca 9th international Bienal of architecture, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
October
29th & 30th- 8pm Work in progress presentation of Poupik a duet performance with Naomi Silman from Lume Teatro Brazil at Lume Nucleus Sao Paulo
21st 7pm, The Karavan Ensemble charity performance for ALALA charity fund raiser at the Unitarian church, Brighton.
17th 'Falling' at Muzot Festival, Shoam, Israel.
September
7th presentation of work in progress of Case- Studies R&D at the Marlborough Theatre Brighton.
16th & 17th The Karavan Ensemble performance& residency@ Cityleaks Festival in Cologne, Germany.
24th-28th Solo by Yael at an old 'Abatoir' as part of The Contemporanea Festival in Prato, Italy.
August
26th & 27th award-winning show Anima
@ West Hill Community Hall, Compton Avenue (on the corner with Buckingham Place), Seven Dials, Brighton BN1 3PS (press here for a map)
Come at 7.45pm at the entrance of Brighton Station & be led in a promenade performance to the venue (if its wildly raining come to the venue at 8pm.)
Tickets: £9 To Book PRESS HERE
5-7th Stained Glass a Workshop/Work in progress with Tanya Khabarova (Derevo) Supported by South East Dance & curated by Yael Karavan @West Hill Hall Brighton.
July
It's been a successful Spring and we are now planning a Hot summer!
We are happy to announce that due to public demand we are extending our award-winning show Anima for four more performances in Brighton this Summer on the 8th & 9th of July and 26th & 27th of August
@ West Hill Community Hall, Compton Avenue (on the corner with Buckingham Place), Seven Dials, Brighton BN1 3PS (press here for a map)
Come at 7.45pm ot the entrance of Brighton Station & be led in a promenade performance to the venue (if its wildly raining come to the venue at 8pm.)
Tickets: £9 To Book PRESS HERE (or reserve a place on e.karavan@gmail.com)
June
ANIMA was awarded The Argus Angel!
'In Anima, Yael Karavan and her brilliant company of international performers, the Karavan Ensemble, invite you to leave the everyday behind and go with them on a journey, an exploration of light and dark in a “magical feast”. - The Argus
'This is undoubtedly another strikingly original production' - Total Theatre
'Powerful and subtle, this piece from the Karavan Ensemble managed to convey through art a human experience not easily defined – transient and infinite like light! Magical.' - Latest 7
'The experience was carnivalesque, hypnotic, and derealised: a non-sequential trip through the human psyche. The phrase ‘weird but wonderful’ springs to mind, as Anima was precisely that' The New Current
May
23rd 8pm Yael will be performing 2 short solos entitled Fragments as part of Working Title a South East Dance Platform for The Brighton Festival at The Pavilion Theatre.
for more info and/or booking press here!
ANIMA by The Karavan Ensemble @ West Hill Community Hall, Compton Avenue, Brighton BN1 3PS Fri-Sun 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29th May 8pm at the venue or take The Big Lemon Bus from the Corn Exchange at 7.45pm (perf starts on board) Tickets:£8 /£6 Concs bookings at Fringe 01273 917272 | Dome 01273 709709 brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/ticketing/ tickets@brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk
'Bizarre, trancelike, surreal – only such a slurry of words can come close to capturing Anima. For just as the essence of dreams is lost through verbal description, here too we have a performance which ventures into the indescribable...' The new current
April
We are very excited to announce our New show for Brighton Fringe:
links: Book tickets HERE
Listen to an interview about the show HERE
March
25th 7.45pm In-Between in a double bill with Inconvenient Spoof- Naive Dance Mastercalss @The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
19th&20th Serendipity- The Body Speaks Workshop @ The Nightingale theatre, Brighton.
for more info &/or booking info@yaelkaravan.com
Sat 5th In-Between in Santiago, Spain as part of Long night Brighton at NASA
February
19th 7pm Yael will be performing in Stranger than Fiction
A week end celebration of improvisation in performance @The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
12&13th 11am-5pm Yael Karavan's Workshop
The world reflected in a drop of water, Self Portrait in solo performance @The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
for more info &/or booking info@yaelkaravan.com
January
29th Fresh From the Oven @The Nightingale Theatre- 8pm
our monthly event of freshly baked performances, live art & installations. Places are limited so please pre-book at freshfto@gmail.com
See www.freshfto.blogspot.com for more details.
2010
December
31st Fresh From the Oven @The Nightingale Theatre- 9pm-1am
Places are limited to 50, so please pre-book at freshfto@gmail.com
See www.freshfto.blogspot.com for more details.
4th In-Habit @The Dome, Brighton with The Karavan Ensemble
November
27th our Last Fresh From the Oven event @Coachwerks ready for winter Migration! it was a wonderful and warm hearted event thanks for everybody and see you at the Nightingale Theatre until March 2011.
27th&28th Workshop The World Reflected in a Drop of Water in London Hosted by TTI for more info press here
17th&18th 8pm IN-BETWEEN (solo by Y.K)
@The Nightingale Theatre- Brighton
6th&7th workshop A Ship of Fools in Oxford
October
30th as part of Brighton's WHITE NIGHT
A Light Through the Night with
The Karavan Ensemble @Coachwerks 8.45pm - 12.30am
9th & 10th Workshop The world reflected in a drop of water
Self portrait is Solo performance @Coachwerks
September
26th from 7.30pm
Fresh From the Oven Live @Coachwerks
18th & 19th Workshop THE BODY SPEAKS @Coachwerks
August
Tour in Brazil
6th-19th Performance of In-Between in Teritorio festival- Belem
22nd-26th Workshop at Casarao Peleja in Recife- Olinda
28th&29th Performance of In-Between at Lume Teatro- Sao Paulo- Barao Geraldo
30th Aug-3rd Sep Workshop at Lume Teatro- Sao Paulo- Barao Geraldo
July
31st FRESH FROM THE OVEN- live at Coachwerks
a new monthly event presenting a labyrinth of live works adapted to or especially made for this unusual art space. Come and explore the venue, enjoy a pizza from our wood-fired oven and see the freshest in performance, dance, theatre, music & live art.
from 7.30pm £6 / £5 conc.
27th Butoh+Dinner @ Coachwerks
come for a Butoh Dance class and bring a nible so we could have a dinner & a chat together afterwards....
6:30-8.30pm £9/£7 conc.
24th 2pm-7pm & 25th 12am-6pm
A ship of fools-Workshop @ Coachwerks.
following the success of a ship of fools at the Brighton fringe
Yael Karavan is offering a week-end intensive workshop on the this theme. If you are curious to discover who are the fools who inhabit you? What is their story, existence, life to tell?
The workshop will offer a warm up composed from a variety of training tools; stretching, strength, centre, spontaneity, imagination, presence, physical awareness, work with objects and rhythm, and will propose various approaches to discovering your fools in a creative atmosphere.
£60, £55 cons. £50 special price for Theatre Arts students (with cards)
9th- Butoh- stillness through movement
a Workshop in collaboation with Mim King & Carolina Diaz at the Bodhi Garden
It is not enough simply to be born of the mother's womb. Many births are necessary. Be reborn always and everywhere. T. Hijikata
Butoh is an avant garde dance philosophy/method that explores our connection to nature, our ancestors, the cycles of life and death and the tension between opposites. It first appeared in Japan in 1959, in Tatsumi Hijikata's piece "Forbidden Colours" (Kinjiki), based in Yukio Mishima's novel of the same name. Influenced by the cultural background of Buddhism as well as surrealism and expressionism, Hijikata’s aim was to "uncover the dance already happening in the body." In its rejection of conditioned movement and emphasis on body awareness Butoh has the quality of a meditative practice.
June
26th -27th WORKSHOP at Coachwerks
Serendipity- the performer's pleasure-
improvisation & presence.
The BODY SPEAKS
'I see the body as the most primal tool of communication and as such feel the need to combine various dance and performance disciplines in order to broaden its possibilities. I am developing methods to extend the boundaries of dance as well as stimulate the imagination of the body for both the performers and their audience. In the process of my work I explore gestures that come from within the body and thus extract movement that is beyond form and shape, but which contains life and emotion.' Y.K
March-May
A SHIP OF FOOLS is being supported by the arts council!
thank you
and it has finally anchored at Coachwerks!
to have a taste of the folly check out our blog
http://karavanensemble8.wordpress.com/
&
Facebook: Ship Offools
click here to book your FRINGE tickets now!
February
26th&27th 'étude' at the SHUNT VAULTS, London.
8th-12th A world reflected in a drop of water 5 days workshop at ZAP, Barao Geraldo, Brazil.
5th 'In-Between' at Feverestival, International festival of theatre in Campinas, Brazil.
January
(click on it for a little surprise)
16&17 WEEK-END WORKSHOP
at Coachwerks 11am-5pm
2009
December
The first video of my work is now in you tube!!!
wanna have a look?
press on the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o43BGldsea0
10th-12th IN-BETWEEN Solo Performance in a longer version as part of SEEDBED women solos platform + Workshop
at the Hackney Empire Studio Theatre, London.
8&9 WORKSHOP- The world reflected in a drop of water, Self portrait in making solo performance, as part of SEEDBED festival at the Hackney Empire 12pm-4pm. For more info and bookings please contact: brunohumberto@gmail.com gazpachounlimited@googlemail.com
November
9th-13th Audition/Workshop at Coachwerks, Brighton
13th&14th Performance with Bruno Humberto for the final event of the Shunt Lounge, London Bridge.
28th- Solo Improvisation
as part of 'Stranger than Fiction...'
London's monthly celebration
of improvisation
7.30pm at The Church on the Corner,
64 Barnsbury Road, London N1 (Angel tube)
October
1st-3rd THE NATURE OF THINGS- New Performance presentation + Film- 'PickNick' + Video Instalation 'UP YOU GET'
at the SHUNT LOUNGE, London Bridge
6th- The Queens Elm presents -
'While Rome burns...'
Site Specific performance as
part of the exhibition opening
in Chelsea, London.
September
21st-26th WORKSHOP- The World Reflected in a Drop of Water: (Self)-Portrait in Making Solo Performance
at Coachwerks, 19 Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton
26th- COACHWERKS VIEWFINDER Series no. 01
an opportunity to delve into the creative universe of Yael Karavan (Coachwerks September Artist in Residence)
August
26-29 Haendel-opera ADMETO at the Edinburgh international festival Scotland
July
Contre-Image
Du 8 au 12 Juillet
11ème ÉDITION de « Nous n’irons pas à Avignon »
Gare au Théâtre
13 rue Pierre Sémard
94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
Réservations : 01 55 53 22 22
www.gareautheatre.com
June
13&14- a 2 days workshop in collaboration with Ephia at Micadanses dance centre, Paris
and in the evenings you are invited for the open presentations of ‘Chekhov in motion’ project of 3 sisters at BAW- Bilingual Acting Workshop performed by the course students in collaboration with Chris Mack- Paris.
End of June optional workshops in Brighton and Oxford
From 8-12 ‘Contre-Image’ project will be in residency at Atelier de Paris Caroline Carlson, Paris, for the final stages of its creation, there will be an open presentation for the public on the 11 of June at 7pm.
April - June
As member dancer of Mamu Dance Theatre, I will be working with director Doris Dörrie and dancer/ choreographer Tadashi Endo to create an outstanding new version of the Haendel-opera ADMETO. Celebrating 250 years since Haendel’s death, The premiere will be on 26th May 2009 at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen.
March
Shunt Lounge, Londres
February
CCN Rillieux La pape, Micadanses Paris,