Pupik - Yiddish and colloquial Hebrew for 'belly button' - is a theatrical performance that tells the story of immigration, adaptation and life long friendship through dance, movement, humour and various spoken languages.
This is a story of two women, performed by London-born Naomi Silman and Tel Aviv-born Yael Karavan, whose own lives, journeys and families' backgrounds were the inspiration for the performance.
Yael Karavan, now living in Brighton and the founder of the Karavan Ensemble, and Naomi Silman, who lives in Brazil and is a member of acclaimed company Lume Teatro, met in London as students at The Ecole Phillippe Gaulier in London, 22 years ago. Although they worked together on various projects over the years, this production is their first joint collaboration as creators and performers.
In Pupik they tell the story - using a mixture of English, Hebrew, French and Portugese - of two women living on opposite sides of the world but tied unconditionally to each other by their deep friendship, striking similarities and common ancestors.
