Israel Festival dance premiere inspired by The Green Table

A group of men in their seventies stand in a war scene and hold each other up. A woman without a home throws her body against the floor, again and again, because the floor is the only home she has. Two heads of the empire lean into each other with something close to pleasure. Above all of it moves a figure the creators call an angel of death, and through all six scenes, a pianist plays music he wrote for exactly this.This is All Spirits – in Hebrew, Kol HaRuchot (the title quietly plays on lechol haruchot, the Hebrew expression meaning “to hell with it,” and takes it literally) – premiering at the Jerusalem Theatre on August 4 and 5 as part of the Israel Festival's 65th edition.Built by artistic directors Shani Tamari Matan and Moshe Shechter Avshalom, with choreography by Mor Shani, Ariel Cohen, Gilad Jerusalmy, Annabelle Dvir, and…