Nataly Zukerman
© Photo by: Photographer: Gadi Dagon
A photograph of Nataly Zukerman depicting a performer sitting in the bottom right of the picture. She has blond hair and glasses. She is sitting in front of a black wall overed in white chalk writing.
© Photo by: Photographer: Gadi Dagon
A photograph of a performance by Nataly Zukerman depicting two performers to the right hand side of the stage sitting on a small red sofa. One of the performers is leaning to look over at a picture of two people kneeling down, which is being projected onto the back wall.
© Photo by: Photographer: Gadi Dagon
A photograph of a performance by Nataly Zukerman depicting a performer lying on a black stage floor which is covered in chalk writing and pictures.
© Photo by: Photographer: Gadi Dagon
A photograph of a performance by Nataly Zukerman depicting a performer standing waving on a black stage floor which is covered in chalk writing and pictures. The performer is wearing a black sleeveless dress, and holding a piece of paper in her left hand.
© Photo by: Photographer: Gadi Dagon
A photograph of a performance by Nataly Zukerman depicting four people wearing blue leotards; one is sitting on a bike. A man and a woman are behind the bike and pushing it along.
Born in 1978, Nataly Zukerman is an independent Performance Artist. Over the last fifteen years, She has created and participated in various performances and theater works around the world. She creates interdisciplinary works, combining devised theatre, live art, dance and her own autobiographical materials.
In her works, she deals with the notion of identity and disability. At the age of 12 Nataly was injured at a youth camp, leaving her disabled for life. Zukerman’s severe neural back injury is almost invisible and she does not fulfill the stereotype of the disabled woman, creating a dissonance between the physical visibility and the internal experience. This discord is expressed in her work on stage confronting the audience with their preconceptions of the disabled and handicapped and their own inner disabilities.
In 2013, Zukerman created The Other Body, an intimate solo show for which she won the Best Performer Award at the Israeli Fringe Awards 2014. The Other Body is the first part of a trilogy in which Zukerman came to terms with her disability and publicly owned the definition disabled. In 2015 she created the second part Practice Makes Perfect in which she continued to research what exactly the word disabled means from a personal and cultural point of view. The show won Best Performer Award at the Acco Festival for Alternative Theatre 2015 and is the winner of the Best Ensemble Award at the Israeli Fringe Awards 2016. Zukerman is currently working on the third part which deals with cultural exclusion of different minorities.
Zukerman is also a freelance performer, a lecturer, a dramaturge, and a curator. She holds a BA in education and directing from The Kibbutzim College of Education, a BA in Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and an MFA in theater studies from Tel Aviv University.
Contact details
Nataly Zukerman
Independent Artist
Artistic Directors
Nataly Zukerman
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Email: natalyzukerman@gmail.com
Website: http://as-is-arts.com/item/nataly-zukerman/
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Duration: 80
Description: In "Practice Makes Perfect" a running instructor, a professional dancer and Zukerman's partner teach her how to cope with the challenges of performing everyday physical actions like walking, dancing and falling. By doing so, Zukerman exposes the complex physical procedures of our normative body that we totally take for granted.
People on road: 7 people
THE OTHER BODY
Duration: 80
Description: At the age of 12 Nataly became disabled. Her disability is invisible therefore she doesn't fulfill the stereotype of the handicapped woman. In "The Other Body" Zukerman shares with the audience her coming out story, exposing how her condition affected her relationships with her family, her partners and with society.
People on road: 4 people
“Zukerman brings honesty and truth to the stage… She has a special stage presence, and her physical and emotional exposure touches the most exposed nerves…”
– Marat Parkhomovsky, Time Out Israel, November 2013
“Zukerman is a relentless artist… A social, intrusive and important performance – which is the most personal there is”.
– Ophir Hillel, NRG, October 2015
“Zukerman asks, and succeeds, to express the most basic desire of the human nature – to let go of our labels and to be accepted by others, in-spite the flaws, oddities and injuries we gathered through life”.
– Hava Yarom, Martha Knows, November 2013
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