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Stavanger 2025, Byfest
2025 marks Stavanger's 900-year Jubilee. Throughout the year, there will be many different activities and markings of it around Stavanger city and Stavanger's surroundings. CityFest is one of the biggest anchors of the year; it will take place at the end of April for a long-celebrated weekend. Stavanger Kommune and Kulture Kompaniet produce the event , which will be spread all around the centre of Stavanger and will hold performances, workshops, and different activities for the people of Stavanger (please see attachment 2) in five different locations.
Hagit is the artistic director and main choreographer for the event that will take place in Bjergsted Park. The idea for the event at Bjergstedparken is to celebrate the park as a creative hub. And to celebrate art as a creative process, as a collaborative act that brings people together, that enables inclusivity and that combines people, nature, music and dance. Hagit’s role is to choreograph a site-specific performance for 40 dancers (professional, students at the university, high school, and childern). Hagit will collaborate with the composer and musician Marius Nesset. A big stage will be built in the park, where 30 musicians (a combination of students from the faculty of Performing Arts and professional musicians) will perform Marius Nesset’s composition alongside him.
Current Projects
Current Research
Psyche, revealed / An afterthought (working title)
Psyche as the muse, the thread, the starting point.
Psyche, revealed / An afterthought explores a personal interpretation of the myth of Psyche, the Greek goddess of the soul, through different artistic expressions. The project combines storytelling, dance, sound and film, in an exploration of femininity, community and empathy. The research aims to blur boundaries between performance and dialogue through an act of communal storytelling.
In this project, I will revisit and explore the tale of Psyche, the Greek goddess of the soul, from a personal perspective. I will research the topic through different artistic expressions and collaborators, connected through an act of storytelling.
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Current Writing
Chapter in a book titled 'Free To Work'
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Presentation at UiS From Dance to Artistic Research
" Dance. Dance. Otherwise, we are lost " Pina Bausch
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts, Hagit Yakira, invites you into a conversation about dance, choreography, and artistic research. She will reflect on her journey as a dancer and choreographer and how that path has gradually shifted into the realm of artistic research.
Yakira will step into the role of storyteller, dancer, and theoretician, weaving together reflections on care, feminism, and the myth of Psyche, and promises to somehow link it all together.
