Artistic Vision

 

The Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival (JISDF) is a unique celebration of contemporary dance, dedicated to the art of solo performance. It highlights the individuality of creators in the international arena, providing a platform for personal narratives to unfold through movement. The festival curates works that emphasize a rich, multidisciplinary dance language, where the body becomes a meeting point and common ground between people. JISDF elevates the solo artist’s journey, expressed through an original and deeply human perspective.  

 

At its core, JISDF views dance as an act of storytelling—bringing forward diverse voices and perspectives from around the world. The festival showcases works that engage with social, environmental, political, and cultural themes, while also delving into the realms of personal experience and human emotion. By giving exclusive focus to solo performances, JISDF creates an intimate space where the stories told on stage resonate with audiences, transcending boundaries of place, time, and language, allowing them to be met by each and every one of us.

During these complex times, the festival serves as a powerful act of cultural representation, creating physical, interactive, and sustainable multicultural meeting points in Jerusalem that foster open dialogue and pluralistic discussion. Artists from around the world come to live and work in the city, drawing inspiration from its unique atmosphere. Together with fellow creators from Israel and abroad—and in collaboration with the audience—they form a diverse, engaged, and dynamic artistic community. Through the unifying force of personal and universal expression, grounded in the most fundamental human common denominator—the body and movement—the festival harnesses artistic dialogue and creative action to facilitate deeper observation and listening. Dance and performance, as unmediated forms of expression, offer a direct, raw, and deeply human connection, allowing personal narratives to be shared and understood beyond words.

The festival hosts choreographers, solo performers, artistic directors, dance artists and thinkers from Israel and all around the world for performances and discussion panels, open to the public and the professional community. The festival will provide an opportunity for open discussions, networking, research, exposure, and feedback events – an interactive multicultural meeting point that will create a basis for a long-term connection between artists and audience. JISDF Artists are accommodated in Jerusalem, work in the city, create and inspired by it – projecting and exchanging as diverse international communities

Jerusalem is a home for so many diverse cultures, communities, and people. It embodies beauty and challenges and offers a direct encounter with a wide variety of people. Here and now, through the body, the story, and the gaze, through the extended hand striving to touch, we invite you to take part in a world-embracing artistic experience at eye and heart level.

Miriam Engel

14.9 - JISDF Closing Concert

13.9 | CINEMA

12.9 | FOR THE BRAVE

11.9 | STAGE