Shifting Grounds: Performance Night 1
Sat, Nov 14
|CPR - Center for Performance Research
The first evening of Shifting Grounds brings together music, theater, poetry, dance, and puppetry to explore Jewish mythology, history, and contemporary life.
Time & Location
Nov 14, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
CPR - Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
About the event
Shifting Grounds: New Jewish Art Festival is a two-day multidisciplinary arts festival exploring the range of art created by Jewish artists working in and around Brooklyn today. Presented by The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life on November 14 and 15, the weekend features a group exhibition, two evening performance programs and a Sunday morning workshop for families.
The first evening of Shifting Grounds brings together music, theater, poetry, dance, and puppetry to explore Jewish mythology, history, and contemporary life. Moving between the intimate and the collective, the performances engage with themes of transformation, power, love, and belonging through experimental approaches to storytelling, sound, and movement.
Saturday, November 14’s performance features:
Eli Berman’s Litanies of Lilith: an electro puppet opera work-in-progress depicting Lilith’s transformation from the first wife of Adam into the primordial mother of demons. Written, composed, and performed by Eli Berman, Litanies of Lilith features Yiddish translations…