ARIEL EFRAIM ASHBEL \ CV

Theater/Performance maker
Born 1982, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in Berlin
www.ashbela.com
EDUCATION
2007-2010

BA Philosophy and the interdisciplinary program in humanities,

Tel Aviv University. magna cum laude

2003-2006

the School of Visual theater Jerusalem (diploma studies), Graduated with

honors.

CREATIONS \ PROJECTS \ COLLABORATIONS

2014

director of a new version of GIANT, adapted as a site specific work to the Mercedes Me
brand store in Hamburg, in the frame of Kampnagel's International Summer Festival

2014

Initiator of Little show of Horrors, a performance-installation in the frame of a

residency at Mykorrhiza, Uferstudios, Berlin

2014

video for Animal Farm by performance collective Showcase Beat Le Mot, Theater an der
Parkaue Berlin

2013/4 Performer in DING DONG DOM: Das Theater der Zukunft (Theater of the future), a
project by Showcase Beat le Mot, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Bar 25, Berlin
2013

Director of ALL WHITE PEOPLE LOOK THE SAME TO ME: Notes on the National
Pornographic, a performance/research project in collaboration with anthropologist
Romm Lewkowicz, Premiere in Hebbel am Ufer, HAU3 Berlin, and further performances
at the 2014 Live Art Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg and the 2015 Keine Disziplin Festival
in Gessnerallee, Zurich

2013

participant in the panel Textfiles of Desire, Transmediale Festival BWPWAP at Haus

der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2012

co-director of GIANT, a performance-installation piece made in collaboration with Isabel

Lewis, Akko Festival, Israel

2012

INDEPENDENCE PARK DAY, a musical performance developed for Province, the

main exhibition of Love Art 2012, Tel Aviv, curated by Leah Abir.

2012

Performer in The World is not fair, a performance by Artist Tracey Rose, in 'the great
world exhibition', a production by HAU theater in Tempelhof Park, Berlin.

2012

Delegate at the The 1st congress of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland
(JRMiP), a project by Yael Bartana for the 7th Berlin Biennale.

ARIEL EFRAIM ASHBEL

Am Berlin Museum 11 Berlin 10969 Germany
tel. +49.157.34959098 [email protected]
www.ashbela.com

2012

Kurzstrecke, a sound installation and performance event by Maya Dunietz in Ausland

Berlin. Creating and performing Objective Melodrama, a musical performance piece.

2012

Performing in NIX NIX NIX NIX, an existential revue/cabaret/performance by Santiago

Blaum and the all-star theater company, 100grad Festival, HAU3 Berlin.

2012

Dramaturgy for 'You never look at me from the place I see you', a piece for light and
spectators by Yair Vardi, SODA Works, HZT Berlin at Uferstudios.

2011

Music for 'the Moving Talk Show', a performance by Choreographer Jasna Layes
Vinovrski, HZT Berlin at Uferstudios.

2011

'MEAT/ING IN THE INTERNET' an Onlive event in collaboration with Maria Llopis and
Jrgen Brning, the 6th Berlin Porn Film Festival

2011

'Haifa Gymnastics' a performance after Samuel Beckett's play Quad, made for
the opening of the exhibition a line created by walking, Haifa Museum, Israel.

2011

'Who gave you your license?!' a theatrical-musical piece created with Maya
Dunietz, Hafarot Seder Festival, Levontin 7 Tel Aviv

2011

CASINO: WE WORK HARD FOR THE MONEY a collaborative international project with
12 contemporary performance artists, curated by Dr. Stefanie Wenner at HAU3, Berlin.

2011

Lunapark Berlin: a site specific project by HAU theater and performance

collective Showcase Beat Le Mot. Created and performed in collaboration with JanSebastian Suba and Maya Dunietz the participatory events 'Telekinesis Workshop',
'Dorf Disco', 'Catastrophe Clock' and 'the 1st Berlin Mud Wrestling Championship'.

2010

Co-creator of 'True Colours', a performance piece created with artists Keren Ida Nathan
and Yair Vardi. HZT at Uferstudios, Berlin.

2010

Director of 'Friday (from Seven Days)', a performance created with Maya Dunietz and
Alona Rodeh. Premiere at the Center for Contemporary Art as part of Oz in the City
Performance festival, Tel Aviv.

2009

Director of 'Chikos', a sound-performance by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Maya Dunietz,

premiere at the 21st Century Ensemble's festival for contemporary music, Jaffa.

2009

Director of 'Studies in Telekinesis: on Will, Power and whatever is between', original

piece by the AKA Performance Squad, Tmuna Theatre Tel Aviv

2008

Director of 'I'm Never Gonna Dance Again', collaboration with performer Amit Hadari,
Giv'ol Choir musical happening, Tel Aviv.

2008

Director of 'Pinui-Binui', an original performance-theater piece, 'ArtTLV' Festival, Tel

Aviv.

2008

dramaturgy for 'One Dimensional Man', multimedia video-music-theater piece by artist

Daniel Landau.

2008

Dramaturgy for 'Monger', Dance piece by choreographer Barak Marshall, Dance Tel
Aviv Festival, Suzanne Dellal Center Tel Aviv.

ARIEL EFRAIM ASHBEL

Am Berlin Museum 11 Berlin 10969 Germany
tel. +49.157.34959098 [email protected]
www.ashbela.com

2007

co-creator of 'Catastrophe-clock', sound installation by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Maya

Dunietz, Hapzura festival, at the digital artlab, Holon.

2007

Creation of 'Grief', performance piece devised and performed with artist Ofri Lapid,
Balhaus Ost, Berlin.

2007

Initiator and conductor\director of 'Guerrilla' - An improvisation method practiced by an

ensemble of 20 performers, produced by Hazira performance center, Jerusalem.

2007

Director of Emma Zunz (revisited), after the short story by J.L. Borges, performances
in voice of the word Festival, Jerusalem and A-genre Festival Tel Aviv.

2006

Video creation (in collaboration with Osnat Kelner) to Gezoophinkst, musical

performance by Yoni Silver at the Digital Artlab, Holon.

2006

Director of Jawz, previews at the School of Visual theater and official premiere at the
Akko Fringe Festival.

2006

Co-creator of Whats the connection between Kung-fu and Ice-cream?, musical

performance by Maya Dunietz at the Digital Artlab, Holon.

2006

Artistic consultancy for Hardcortex, a musical interactive performance by Michal

Oppenheim, Dance arena 3 Festival, Hazira Performance Art centre, Jerusalem.

2006

Director of Three Etudes, presented in Hand Washes Hand, an event at the Bezalel
Academy of Art Gallery in Tel-Aviv.

2005

Director of 1982, a devised theater piece, premiere at 'Tmuna' theater within

DOGGYSTYLE, conjoined art event with Givol choir and visual artist Alona Rodeh.

2004-5 Artistic consultancy for Givol choir.

2004

Director of Gymnastics, a theatrical composition after Samuel Becketts Quad,

premiere at The School of Visual theater Jerusalem.

2003

Director of Garinim, winner of the Akko Fringe Festival.

2003

Performing in If I only had the luck, Id find another duck, dance piece by Choreographer
Osnat Kelner, Shades in Dance Festival, Suzanne Dellal Centre Tel Aviv.

2002

Performing in Kadabra, dance piece by choreographer Inbal Ben-Zaken, IntimaDance

Festival, 'Tmuna' theater Tel Aviv.

2002

Artistic consultancy for experimental \ free jazz duo Maya and Michal, Maya Dunietz
(Piano, voice) and Michal Oppenheim (Voice, cello), Israel tour

2001

Director of Courage (After Bertolt Brechts Mother Courage), Akko Fringe Festival.

2000

Director of The Dybbuk Between Two Worlds by S. Ansky, Akko Fringe Festival.

OTHER WORK
2014

Dramaturgy for DREAM/COOK/JUMP, a project by Keren Rosenbaum/

Composing community, Produced by Wilminktheater Enschede, Deventer
Schouwburg and Odeon de Spiegel Zwolle, the Netherlands

ARIEL EFRAIM ASHBEL

Am Berlin Museum 11 Berlin 10969 Germany
tel. +49.157.34959098 [email protected]
www.ashbela.com

2013-2014

teaching workshops at the School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem

2011

Directing hospitant in Pierrot Lunaire, directed by Bruce Labruce,

Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater, Berlin

2009-2011

Teaching in Minshar, art school and cultural center in Tel Aviv.

2008-2010

Artistic director of IntimaDance Festival, Tmuna theater, Tel Aviv.

2009

Director of 'Schlager', musical-theatrical piece, Musica Nova ensemble Tel Aviv.

2007-2008

Teaching in actsearch school for theater and performance, Tel Aviv.

2004-2005

Lighting designer and operator at the Lab theater, Jerusalem

2002

Director of Hidden Dips, by composer Amnon Wolman, Musica Nova

Ensemble, Tel Aviv.

2002

Lighting designer and stage manager at Curtains Up Dance Festival, Suzanne

Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv

2000-2003

Member of the Artistic Committee of 'Tmuna' theater

AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

August 2014

Residency in Frankfurt Lab, Frankfurt.

May 2014

Residency in the frame of Mykorrhiza: an Apparatus a project by curator

Stefanie Wenner, Ufer Studios Berlin

June 2013

Technic/research residency at ausland Berlin with anthropologist Romm

Lewkowicz and technologist Yair Reshef

Nov' 2012

Research residency with anthropologist Romm Lewkowicz in Stonenest

Theater, Welsh Chapel, London UK

August 2011

Residency with composer Keren Rosenbaum at the Reflex Ensemble center,

New Jersey USA

FebJun 2011 a five months internship at HAU Theater, Berlin. Scholarship granted by the
Goethe Institute and the International Theater Institution (ITI).
August 2010

Residency at PACT Zollverein Essen, Germany.

2007

the MORASHA foundation's scholarship for community involved artists.

2006, Jawz

Winner of the prize for excelling students, granted by the School of Visual
theater, Hazira Performance centre, and the Mayor of Jerusalem.

2003, 'Garinim' First prize Akko Fringe Festival & the special creation grant from the AmericaIsrael Cultural Foundation.
2001, 'Courage' Citation for best ensemble work, Akko Festival.
2000, 'The Dybbuk Between Two Worlds' Citation for promising director, Akko Festival.
2003-4, 2004-5, 2005-6 & 2007-8 Winner of The America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship.

ARIEL EFRAIM ASHBEL

Am Berlin Museum 11 Berlin 10969 Germany
tel. +49.157.34959098 [email protected]
www.ashbela.com