ע-צ-ו-ם

2019 Mekudeshet 2019
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A power restoring ceremony with closed eyes and open ears Led by Noam Enbar with the Great Gehenna Choir and friends


If you weren’t lucky enough to be one of the people who participated in this Blindsight ceremony, we will tell you what happened there:

The audience arrived at a forest clearing. Was given a blindfold and set out on journey into mind and soul. Noam Enbar and members of the choir lead them into a separate reality somewhere between imagination, a dream and memory. Songs and music were played on unique instruments that were the material from which the fantastical world of Blindsight was created. Precisely, gently and sensitively, the audiences were eased into a state of deep listening and reconnection with nature.

Blindsight, which was created by Noam Enbar in collaboration with writer Yonatan Levy, dramaturg Nir Shauloff and members of the choir, is a power-restoring ceremony for multiple participants constructed out of a hypnotic, humorous, and enrapturing playlist. An all-encompassing production that proposes a new way to listen, draw strength, and recharge through music.

The Great Gehenna Choir was established four years ago in Jerusalem as an alternative to the more traditional concept of a choir. The choir performs transformative contemporary ceremonies and its members work and create in full partnership.



Jerusalem Forest

Concept, Artistic Director, and Music: Noam Enbar

Participants: Michal Oppenheim, Noam Ahdut, Laila Shuala Bettermann, Ann Ben-Yehuda, Ruth Danon, Ella Daniel, Sarah Verrees, Ruth Wieder Magan, Gidon Levy, Katrin Lasko, Amir Meir, Dor Magen, Tamara Nishri, Elana Snitman, Natan Skop, Noam Enbar, Ido Akov, Alexander Fisz, Amit Fishbein, Tamir Friedrich, Nir Shauloff, Ami Shalev, Netta Spiegel, Michal Tamari.

Song Lyrics: Yonatan Levy

Dramaturgy: Nir Shauloff

Musical Instruments: Yaniv Schnetzer

Costume Design: Shlomit Gopher

Space Design: Daniel Nahmias

Producers: Ori Vaknin and Efrat Ben Tzur (original production: Yifat Shir-Moskovitz)

The choir is a collaboration project with the collective Mamuta