During the spring semester, Shadur is teaching in Indiana University’s department of theater and contemporary dance. Based in Tel Aviv, she came to Bloomington as part of the Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which brings artists from various disciplines to North America for residencies.
Israel Institute Visiting Artist Yael Rasooly (Spring 2019, Trinity College, Hartford) joins Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival founder Blair Thomas for a WBEZ 91.5 Chicago radio interview on puppetry and the international festival.
"And then, at the Chopin Theatre, there was “Paper Cut,” ingeniously imagined and exuberantly performed by Yael Rasooly, the multi-talented Israeli actress, comedienne, singer and cut-paper artist possessed of a phenomenal talent for capturing male and female voices and a slew of accents."
In “Paper Cut,” from Israeli theater artist Yael Rasooly, at the Chopin Theatre Jan. 18-20, a secretary (Rasooly) falls after-hours into a Hollywood daydream, which Rasooly brings to life through the clever manipulation of old stills of movie stars, using masks and paper dolls and tear-away sheets to create a Hitchcockian suspense tale (with a little “Gaslight” tossed in).