Love to go out to plays, concerts and dance performances but can’t quite make it happen on your budget? Curious to try something new, but high ticket prices making you hesitate? Days of Culture will present 400 cultural events in 120 locations from December 25 – 27, 2013 – and tickets will be no more than 20 NIS!
“Days of Culture” is a new initiative brought to you by a collaboration of Mifal HaPayis, the Ministry of Culture and The Israeli Cultural Institute Forum.
The full program (in Hebrew) offers children’s shows, dance, music, theatre, film and literary events, and may be found on the Mifal HaPais website, and tickets may be reserved online.
Some highlights:
The Dance Instructor by Yoav Bartel and Abigail Rubin at Beit Reuven in Tel Aviv, 14 Bialik Street. Performances will take place at 17:00, 18:00 and 19:00. See link for tickets here.
Folk dance instructor Eitan Harari is perhaps best known for his appearance in the award-winning play “Hamarkid” (The Dance Instructor) by Yoav Bartel and Abigail Rubin – Tozeret Bayit Ensemble. Harari is a gifted dancer and an average guy trying to make it in the fiercely competitive world of folk dance, never quite understanding why life doesn’t work out the way he would like it to, yet he never gives up…Eitan Harari, misunderstood genius.
Choreographer Yasmeen Godder’s See Her Change – Wednesday, December 25th at Beit Banim, Kfar Menahem at 20:00. See link for tickets here.
Run, don’t walk, to see Yasmeen Godder’s new work: See Her Change….There are three women onstage: Shuli Enosh and Dalia Chaimsky, two dancers with whom Godder has a long-standing creative dialogue, and Godder herself. The differences of physique, age, and movement along with their shared traits and gender, generate shifting images of who “She” is and might be, changing and developing throughout the performance.
Godder makes use of cultural tropes and stereotypes of women in this work to create a kinetic palimpsest of images. The images and movement emerge from the lives, bodies and memories of the choreographer and the dancers, translated onto the stage, becoming universal, resonant.
Beer Sheva Theatre’s Why Didn’t You Come Before the War, directed by Hagit Rehavi NikolayevskyHeichal Hatarbut, Lod, 2 Eliezer Kaplan Street, 20:30. See link for tickets here.
Between Israelis from here, and Jews from there, the unspoken question marks the divide: “Why didn’t you come before the war?” Many arrived with nothing save their European manners and painful memories, ill-equipped to cope with the harsh circumstances of life in a nascent state recovering from the chaos and trauma of two wars. It was an awkward encounter between the imperative to preserve what remained of European Jewry and the clash between the two cultures; bound together by history and a mutual lack of enthusiasm. It’s not something we really like to talk about in Israel… read the full review here.
Ilana Eliya – Wednesday, December 25th at 20:30 in Nazareth Illit Performing Arts Center, 4 Ma’ale Yitzhak Street. See link for tickets here.
Jazz at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem (13 Harechavim St) with Crunch 22, Lucille and the Ohana Brass Band – Wednesday, December 25th at 21:30. See link for tickets here.
Yoram Karmi’s Cerberus – Thursday, December 26th at 20:30, Heichal HaTarbut Or Akiva, 80 Hanassi Street. See link for tickets here.
A voyage into the unknown, on the waters of an ancient river, Yoram Karmi’s Cerberus is a work of haunting beauty, a poetic evocation of mortality. It is a dance that takes place between the known and the unknown; drawing on the stories and imagery of Greek mythology to reflect on life, love and death – that other life in the underworld. Read the full review here.
