Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presents a New Work Preview: Do it Yourself on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 2PM at 120 Broadway Tivoli, NY 12583. Tickets are free and can be reserved at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36035/production/1272190?performanceId=11794549.

Do It Yourself is a contemporary dance work in which choreographer Hillel Kogan places performer Danielle Agami at the center of a turbulent identity discourse, examining how female identity is constructed, negotiated, and performed within Western culture.



The piece emerges from the personal biography of Agami, whose life has unfolded between different geographies and identities: Israeli, American, Moroccan, European. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the work unfolds as a sequence of situations in which identity is questioned, misinterpreted, and redefined. Through dance, spoken text, rap, and storytelling, the performer confronts a series of familiar social interrogations: Where are you from? Why are you alone? Why don’t you have children? What kind of woman are you? These questions reveal the persistent cultural expectations imposed on female bodies.

The work draws inspiration from the figure of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, reimagined as a contemporary feminist strategy: survival through storytelling, delay, intelligence, and imagination. Do It Yourselfdoes not attempt to resolve these tensions. Instead, it creates a space where contradictions can coexist—where identity remains open, fluid, and embodied, without giving up on virtuosity, sexuality and honesty.

About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

The mission of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence by providing artists at any stage of their careers with creative residencies at state-of-the-art facilities, and presenting audiences and communities with annual festivals, educational programs, and events. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, spoken and written word, and culinary and visual arts, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and outdoor stages. Sited on 153 Hudson River-adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities’ space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement—just two hours north of New York City.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts as we aim to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society. We encourage a broadly diverse group of individuals to participate in our programs and join our Board and Staff, and insist on being inclusive of all peoples regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, or physical or mental ability.

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