Kaatsbaan Cultural Park to Present DO IT YOURSELF, a New Contemporary Dance Work
Choreographer Hillel Kogan and performer Danielle Agami bring the free show to Tivoli, NY.
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will present a New Work Preview: Do it Yourself on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 2PM at 120 Broadway Tivoli, NY 12583. Tickets are free and can be reserved here.
Do It Yourself is a contemporary dance work in which choreographer Hillel Kogan places performer Danielle Agami at the center of a turbulent identity discourse, examining how female identity is constructed, negotiated, and performed within Western culture.
The piece emerges from the personal biography of Agami, whose life has unfolded between different geographies and identities: Israeli, American, Moroccan, European. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the work unfolds as a sequence of situations in which identity is questioned, misinterpreted, and redefined. Through dance, spoken text, rap, and storytelling, the performer confronts a series of familiar social interrogations: Where are you from? Why are you alone? Why don't you have children? What kind of woman are you? These questions reveal the persistent cultural expectations imposed on female bodies.
The work draws inspiration from the figure of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, reimagined as a contemporary feminist strategy: survival through storytelling, delay, intelligence, and imagination. Do It Yourselfdoes not attempt to resolve these tensions. Instead, it creates a space where contradictions can coexist-where identity remains open, fluid, and embodied, without giving up on virtuosity, sexuality and honesty.
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