HOT WALK

Name: HOT WALK - Keren Levi
Start: 2025-10-03T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Keren Levi

Thu 2 Oct - Fri 16 Oct

When menopause, motherhood and climate change collide

Thu 2 Oct

Fri 16 Oct

Thu 15 Oct

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Tickets

Fri 16 Oct

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Tickets

Thu 2 Oct

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Fri 3 Oct

20:30

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event

Nobody goes out anymore: out of their houses, out of their worn-out habits and assigned bodies, out of their irrational fears and self-defeating anger. Life is definitely not a walk in the park, if it ever was. The world is too hot to stroll. Yet, Keren invites you to join a virtual promenade through a burned landscape. While she cannot promise you anything, she holds onto an improbable hope: if we keep in step with each other, we might just arrive back home, refreshed.

What if global warming is Earth's own menopause? HOT WALK is a multidisciplinary performance by Keren Levi |NeverLike exploring climate change, aging, and parenthood side by side. Two women walk on a treadmill as a picturesque park unfolds behind them, projected, never quite real. They discuss (gossip?) about the whereabouts of an absent woman, until speech gives way to dance and image: walking turns into rocking, speaking into singing, the simulated park into other worlds.

As audience, we witness a blend of dry humor and disquieting interaction, creating an impression of lively spontaneity within the controlled aesthetics of the simulated park. By blending the personal with the planetary, HOT WALK holds the warming of a body and the warming of a planet in the same frame, the inner climate and the outer climate, destruction beside renewal.

Duration: 65 mins.
Language: English with Dutch surtitles

Credits

choreography and text Keren Levi in close collaboration with performers Esther Mugambi & Hillary Blake Firestone video Assi Weitz & Rob Gradisen music Tom Parkinson dramaturgy Igor Dobričić light and technique Martin Kaffarnik graphic design / collage Miritte Ben Ytzchak photography Rob Gradisen, Robine Junicke production stichting NeverLike co-production FFT Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, SPRING festival Utrecht funding support AFK, FPK, Elise Mathilde

In the press

"The ingenious interweaving of dance, text and video creates as much space for this urgent theme as for the personal." Theaterkrant, Critic's choice.

“The interaction of text and image is undoubtedly successful. But what makes the performance special is the play with different levels of reality.” WN Münster

“Keren Levi (...) combines supposedly female and environmental issues, the internal and external climate in an interesting way. Climate change, signs of ageing and parenthood intersect in an unusual way.” Rheinische Post

About Keren Levi

Since 2004, Keren Levi has been creating multidisciplinary dance performances that often originate from a central idea, appealing to both adults and young audiences. Her combinations of abstract concepts and technology stimulate the imagination. In HOT WALK, Keren continues to explore themes of perception by combining different viewpoints and manipulating video imagery.