HEBEL (April 2020)
Choreographer/Director/Designer: Pavel Zuštiak
Composer: Christian Frederickson
Scenographer: Keith Skretch
Lighting Designer: Joe Levasseur

Through an interdisciplinary, strongly visual and textured approach, Zuštiak excavates themes of human ambition, rootlessness, meaning and identity. HEBEL takes its name from the ancient Book of Ecclesiastes, appearing there 38 times, and still prompting ongoing discourse. Hebel can be translated as vanity, but also emptiness, vapor, breath and absurdity. It lies at the heart of the Book’s key question: “What do you gain from all your work?” HEBEL reflects on temporal human effort and individual life’s worth. HEBEL draws us into an evocative, emotionally charged exploration of life’s meaning and what it means to witness in destabilized world.