Creator / Opera & Music project director / performer
Ari Teperberg
Touring work - Untitled document (2022) // The Soft Hum of the Dial Tone (2022) // And My Heart Almost Stood Still (2018)
Ari Teperberg, born in Jerusalem in 1989, is a theatre-maker, opera director and performer. He graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem (2013) and is the recipient of the Jerusalem Foundation Prize, 2011. Ari created the pieces And my Heart Almost Stood Still, a coproduction with the Westfluegel Theatre in Leipzig; I Want to Dance, Kate! which premiered at the Acco Festival 2014, and won the prizes for best stage language and best costumes; What Happened to my Voice? and Caprices.
Together with Inbal Yomtovian, he founded the “Golden Delicious” ensemble, creating and touring with Object-Theatre shows in numerous festivals around the world.
In Opera and music, Ari directed the piece Shalem at the Jerusalem Mekudeshet Festival - a concert for an orchestra of 110 musicians playing broken instruments (2019); Peter and the Wolf with the Tel Aviv Wind Quintet; Cosi Fan Tutte and Hansel und Gretel (Jerusalem Opera, 2018); Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2016); In Search of the Orchestra (IVAI opera workshop, 2016) - an original opera show for children; Dan the Guard (Israel National Library with The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, 2015) This was the first full production of what is said to be the first Hebrew opera, written by Marc Lavry in 1943; Le Nozze di Figaro (Jerusalem Opera, 2014); The Pearl Fishers (Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Conservatory Orchestra, 2013).
In 2019 Ari created the video work You Need to be Ready to Let Go of What the Eye Sees for the acclaimed ethnography exhibition “Veiled Woman of the Holy Land” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, which he was also an artistic advisor of. As a performer he worked with numerous local theatre directors and choreographers and presently performs with the Yasmeen Godder Dance Company, in the pieces Common Emotions, Simple Action and Practicing Empathy.
Additionally, Ari conducts workshops of his performative technique, works as a dramaturge, is a soundtrack designer, teaches movement for singers at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, teaches Hebrew and leads the performance program at "art-team", a summer course for teenagers excelling in the arts from all over Israel.