Twenty Years of a Public Movement: As One X, So Too

Public Movement marks twenty years since its founding: in winter 2006, at a crossroads in the heart of Tel Aviv, in a first action lasting one minute and centered on an accident.

For two decades, the group has learned, wondered, become entangled, and acted in public space in Israel and around the world. To mark the occasion, it invites the public to contemplate together elements from its first official ceremony, Also Thus! (2007), emerging within its latest action, As One (2026).

Also Thus! was created as a state ceremony featuring nine members of Public Movement, dressed in white uniforms, and a black official car equipped with a flashing beacon. The ceremony moved between discipline and dissolution, between creating order and the possibility of challenging it.

As One was born out of research into the first Workers’ Olympics in Frankfurt in 1925. Six members of Public Movement perform a choreography of power, vulnerability, discipline, and play, examining how ideas of equality and fraternity can be embodied in a unified body.

Members of Public Movement from different generations return to the choreographic language at the foundation of the group’s work, reviving Also Thus! as it erupts within and against As One. The encounter between the two actions invites reflection on the changes that have taken place in the civic body, in national performances of violence, and in the old and new wounds of public space. What has happened to the meaning of ceremony, to the way the state presents itself? Is it possible to imagine another horizon of being in society?

The event will conclude with Israeli folk dancing in circles; the general public is invited.

As One is a production of Public Movement and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. It premiered in Israel as part of the Israel Festival, 2026.

Also Thus! (2007) premiered at the Acre Festival for Alternative Theatre, Al-Amal School, Acre, Israel.

Head of Public Movement: Dana Yahalomi

Members of Public Movement: Mashi Olinki, Gali Liberider, Avshalom Latukha, Ofir Kunash, Tal Adler, Maayan Horesh, Lyle Goren, Amit Tina, Carmit Burian, Adi-Li Lieberman.

Founder and co-leader of Public Movement (2006–2011), and co-creator of Also Thus!: Omer Krieger

Dramaturgy: Tal Yahas

Composer of As One: Yoni Silver

Musician of As One: Asaf Shatil

Text for As One: Yaara Shapira, Nana Ariel

Initial research for As One: Nir Shauloff

Costumes: Gali Liberider

Production: Shira Sandik

Photography: Kfir Bolotin