When We Were Almost Just a Form

The body’s organs gather around microphones in the studio at Musrara School, ready to have their say. For a long time now, we have been rushing our bodies from one place to another, from one existential state to the next: from bed to shelter, from incubation to migration, from sleep to drinking, through heavy guilt, anxiety, contraction, and ecstasy.

This is an attempt to imagine the organs that make up our bodies as possessing an independent consciousness, as though separated from our individual identities, yet remaining so close. It is an attempt to pay attention to what holds us together; what carries us on two legs, reaches out to drink a glass of cold water, produces the growls of hunger, quickens our breathing, sweats, creates oppressive lumps of stone in our throats, makes children, sends our hearts racing with terror, brings us to tears, and on and on and on.

Daniela Lila is a multidisciplinary artist working in directing, songwriting and composition, set design, sculpture, and costume and object design. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Theatre (2024). Her work Flood was presented at the Autumn Ritual Festival and is part of the Interdisciplinary Arena repertoire. She has created and presented works at the Living Gallery, CCA, the Performance Conference, and the Premiere Festival. She has also collaborated on projects presented at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, the Autumn Ritual Festival, and the Israel Festival.

Creator, set designer, and performer Daniela Lila
Composition and musical arrangement Yoyo Broyd