This project cracks open Venus and Adonis as a myth in constant mutation, reimagined across centuries, echoing from classical poetry into contemporary culture. Love, desire, beauty, decay, youth, and power collide and unravel. The mythos becomes a lens through which we trace how we long, consume, worship, control, destroy, and transform. Through physical and performative exploration, the body emerges as a site of pleasure, discipline, devotion, shame, and transgression. Movement, dance theater, voice, text, sound, visual composition, and spatial design intertwine in a process that is ritualistic, political, and visceral. Conceived by choreographer and theater director Saar Magal, whose practice fuses dance, performance, and visual art through embodied research, mythic constellations, ritual, and the politics of the body. The work culminates in a shared performative act, part rite, part rupture, where legend ignites the present.

Notes of Accessibility
The project will be held in spoken English. Oral and physical explanations will be an important part of the workshop, and so will reading and writing. Partner and group work with possible touching and physical contact will be an integral part of the workshop. Music will be played from the speakers and microphones will be used. A free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities.