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The NIFGASHOT Platform operates at the intersection of art and society. It connects values of equality with diverse women-led artistic creation and strengthens the relationship between artists and community. NIFGASHOT promotes women artists and makes content addressing identity and female experience accessible to diverse populations, and particularly to underserved communities. The Platform takes place in multiple locations across the country and operates on a spectrum ranging from the local, to the national, and to the international. NIFGASHOT conducts community-based processes and events throughout the entire year, such as creative processes of artists within communities, one-time workshops for the general public, panels and discourse events, festivals, performances, collaborative creation processes with artists and institutions from abroad, and more. NIFGASHOT is structured as a triangle whose vertices are: art, feminism, and community.
Within the framework of the Platform, we hold the “NIFGASHOT Festival” — an annual festival for feminist performance art. The festival engages with the female experience through an encounter with the active and moving body. The NIFGASHOT Festival makes contemporary dance accessible to new audiences by initiating creative processes and events in public space; expands the circle of women participating in the dance field by initiating community-based projects in collaboration with girls and elderly women, led by leading artists in their fields; brings feminist, critical, and social issues into the public discourse through artistic content; strengthens the dance community through the initiation of national and international projects in which students from various art institutions across the country participate together in artistic processes and performances; and reinforces the creative ecosystem of the art field by initiating interdisciplinary projects that connect dance with live music and additional mediums. Over the years, the festival has included performances, festivals, and premieres in the fields of dance, performance art, spoken word, music, theatre, and more, alongside visual art exhibitions, discourse events, panels, one-time workshops, and additional formats.
The NIFGASHOT Platform was first initiated in 2017 by choreographer Ayala Frenkel, who serves as the curator and artistic director of the festival to this day. Between 2017–2019, the “NIFGASHOT Festival” took place in collaboration with Kelim Center for Choreography, a choreographic working body based in Bat Yam, and was held in its spaces. Between 2020–2024, the festival was held in the Kfar Shalem neighborhood in southeast Tel Aviv–Yafo, in collaboration with the municipality. In 2025–2026, the NIFGASHOT Platform expanded into national and international projects, including collaborations with the Jerusalem Municipality, the Castle in Time Orchestra, the Musrara Ensemble for New Music, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, HAKVUTZA dance school, Vertigo Dance Workshop, and the Sasha Waltz Company (Germany).
SUPPORT
The Choreographers Association is an umbrella organization for independent choreographers and special dance projects. Fe(m)stival is one such project. Recognized Organization- 580215333 Board of Directors: Dr Yael (Yali) Nativ, Tzila Rozenblum, Hagit Neeman, Revital Ben Asher Peretz, Yossi Levi. Staff: Sharon Bar Lev (CEO), Amit Hadari, Ruth Valerinski, Tal Heichman, Ifat Meshulam.
Kelim is an international center and home for contemporary dance in Bat Yam. The center has hosted the Fe(m)stival since 2017 and the annual festival occurs in its spaces. Kelim is a women-run organization directed in a feminist manner, sharing the tenets of the Fe(m)stival.
Staff: Morahn Bash (CEO), Anat Danieli (Artistic Director), Tal Gravinsky (Education and Community).
Ayala Frenkel
Ayala Frenkel is a choreographer, curator, dancer and feminist. Throughout the years, Ayala has led and participated in a number of projects that connect community and art and strive to offer, from within the artistic-dance knowledge, a meaningful meeting of different groups. Ayala is a graduate of the “Societal Art about Violence Against Women” course (School of Societal Art, 2020). She is currently finishing her studies towards a BA, majoring in the history of art and philosophy at the Open University and is beginning the course for the “Training of Agents of Change and Performing Artists and Cinematographers” (The School for Peace).
Ayala has been a member of the Choreographers Association since 2018. Her work as an artist function as a meeting point between feminism and choreography. Her creations have been presented by various festivals throughout Israel and abroad and have been supported by the National Lottery, the Ministry of Culture and Sport’s Fund for Independent Artists and by several residency programs. As an independent dancer, she collaborated with the Yasmeen Godder Company, Batsheva Dance Company (the Kamuyot Project in Sweden), Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, Iris Erez, Tamar Borer, Dana Ruttenberg and others. As a teenager, she studied ballroom and Latin dance and was a champion in the field.
In 2017, Ayala established the Fe(m)stival and has directed the project since. She serves as the curator and Artistic Director of its various facets. Fe(m)stival is a Choreographers Association project.
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