Name: the reddest wine - an evening of dance and music
Start: 2025-05-07T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-08T20:30:00-05:00
Location: The Parlour Gallery

the reddest wine - an evening of dance and music

A dance and music collaboration between musicians Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen and CabinFever dancers. Artistic directed by Elana Jacobs.
About this Event

As hymns provide communities with collective effervescence – the transformative experience of shared emotion, memory and spirituality – The Reddest Wine presents a movement-based blessing that celebrates the shape-shifting roles of the feminine, women, and mothers in times of hard change.

The Reddest Wine features dancers A. Raheim White, Maritza Mercado, and Emily Craver, with musical creation by musicians Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen. The musical soundscape fuses Arabic, Hebrew, and New Orleans musical traditions, creating a sonic landscape that amplifies the piece's exploration of grief, womanhood, and motherhood across cultural boundaries and throughout history.

This new installation performance is still in it's sprouting phase after a spring residency at Parlour Gallery in New Orleans. Join us as we present this evolving work, so special to the company, in an intimate evening live on May 7& 8 2025. *

*By entering our event of The Reddest Wine, you are entering an area where photography, audio and video recording may occur. Your entry and presence on the event premises constitutes your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of any and all recorded media of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with CabinFever, Neta Elkayam, Amit Hai Cohen, and/or The Parlour Gallery and its initiatives, including, by way of example only, use on websites, in social media, news and advertising.

Elana Jacobs is a choreographer living in New Orleans. Since 2011, Elana has served as the Artistic Director of performance company CabinFever. In addition to performances in traditional venues, CabinFever creates and produces site-specific works performed inside people’s homes and historical spaces inspired by memories and architecture. With CabinFever, Elana has created original works in institutions, including the Marigny Opera House (New Orleans), On The Boards and Town Hall (Seattle), and Soho House and Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago). Most notably, Elana was commissioned with CabinFever to create a performance throughout the Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago for its Merce Cunningham exhibit titled “Common Time.”

Neta Elkayam is a multidisciplinary artist and musician and has gained recognition worldwide as a performer of North African music.

Having graduated the Key School of Arts with honors, Neta creates music and art inspired by North African Jewish artists and connects their spirit and roots to contemporary global arts and music scenes. Neta’s creative approach mixes influence of Andalusian, Amazigh and Mediterranean music as well as rock, pop, and jazz. She performed at many festivals and venues around the world including the Essaouira Music Festival and the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, GWMF Gibraltar, the Krakow Jewish Festival, IMA - Institut du Monde Arabe Paris, and more. Neta was awarded the 2017 ACUM Music Prize and the Sami Michael Award for Social Equality in 2019, as well as the Moroccan “Salam Contemporary Arts Forum” prize in 2021 and was granted the Moroccan TMM Trophy for spreading the Moroccan Jewish Voice around the world (March 2022).

Amit Hai Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist and curator working along the Jerusalem-Morocco axis. His projects span film, music, and visual arts, blending identities, languages, and aesthetics. Notable works include the musical films Ya Lhmama (2013) and To Box with God (2021), soundtracks for Levantine (2019) and King David (2023), producing the international musical shows Abiadi (2017) and Arenas (2019), and curating Ziara, the flagship exhibit of the Jerusalem Biennale (2019). Recently, he created the Circle of the Year video installation for the Tower of David’s permanent exhibit. Amit tours worldwide, collaborating with leading North African artists such as Moktar Gania and Kabareh Cheikhats. He was featured, alongside his partner Neta Elkayam, in Kamal Hachkar’s documentary In Your Eyes I See My Country(2019), which chronicles their early careers. Together, they received the Erez Biton Prize (2019) and co-created the multidisciplinary opera Hilula for the Israel Festival (2022).