THE ARCHIVE - One Woman Show by Neta Pulvermacher

Neta Pulvermacher returns to Gainesville with her new work, The Archive.

When the last person who remembers is gone, whole worlds disappear forever. Israeli/American artist, choreographer and performer Neta Pulvermacher sets her riveting one woman show, The Archive, inside this perforated post-memory landscape. In this multi-layered work, she explores her German-Jewish family history, constructing a jarring and deeply moving performative journey that follows the traces to Frankfurt and Berlin - once her family's home.

Inside a room with a table, three chairs and an old violin she sifts through documents, old pictures and artifacts. She dances, sings and tell stories -conjuring up fragmented narratives, voices, and characters that connect briefly, only to fade away into oblivion. Through research and memory, she combines real and imagined sites and events, blurring the lines between past and present and battling the gradual disappearance of memories. Especially in times of crisis the questions of memory and history and their significance for understanding our world(s) become relevant and urgent.

The solo version of the Archive premiered in KFW Stiftung Villa 102 in Frankfurt Germany (March 2024) and in Israel’s Suzanne Dellal Center in the summer of 2024. In February 2025 The Archive will be performed in NYC at the Leo Baeck Institute/The Center for Jewish History, a site of remembrance and history in and of itself and will also travel to University of Florida, where Neta Pulvermacher was on faculty for seven years prior to moving back to Israel.

Please join us for a memorable event.

Neta is a professor of dance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, she is a former faculty member of the UF School of Theater and Dance.