Tmuna Festival 2016

September 11, 2016

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The Tmuna International Festival for Theatre, Performance and Dance will take place from September 15 – October 1, 2016. Now in its 5^th edition, the festival is under the artistic direction of Nava Zuckerman and Yair Vardi, offering a platform for creative artists to express their emotional, social and political environment. This year’s festival will include international performances from Germany, Poland, and England, reflecting the concerns of contemporary theatre-performance artists. This year’s festival will also mark the 400^th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s demise, with performances, symposium, and workshops.

Tmuna Festival Performances: *

You Happy Puppet By Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

We were told that this is a time when the public needs bread and circuses.

We shall deliver.

We will walk on our tip toes in an attempt to anesthetize the public from the abyss stretching before us.

We know that this will make everything ok.

By: Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor | Preformers: Tomer Giat, Yael Sofer, Hilel Perlman | Lighting design: Yair Vardi

Performance: September 15^th at 20:30; September 16^th at 14:00. Tickets are 70 NIS.

Tmuna Ensemble Presents:

Doctor Prospero by Yossi Yizraely

Encouraged by his success as a hypnotizer in popular shows, Dr. Prospero sets himself to produce a hypnotic pill to cure all fears from which Jews suffer… The tragic results and their unexpected causes are the stuff this play is made of.

Doctor Prospero is Yossi Yzraely’s sixth play performed in “Tmuna” theatre. His plays are based on his theory of “The Autonomous and Compressed Pesent”.

Performance: September 16^th at 19:00; September 17^th at 19:00. Tickets are 35 NIS, the performance will be in Hebrew.

Gullet / Chamber Pickled Performance Dinner

By Thalia Hoffman, Ofri Omer, Ayelet Halpern, Maya Elran

A 13 course pickled performance dinner of vegetable, fish, sea-food and meat.

A performance where the audience participates and tastes the close connection between occupying land/people and pickling food, a connection which in Hebrew shows itself also by the similar root of the words.

By: Thalia Hoffman, Ofri Omer, Ayelet Halpern, Maya Elran | Performers: Alon Alperovitz, Ayelet Evyatar, Einav Rosolio, Galit Criden, Marina Garchanik, Michal Ben Yehuda, Michal Igell, Michal Tzuk, Natan Halpern, Nurit Dreamer | Artistic advisor: Yair Vardi | Pickles: Tzuk Farm, Asaf Shinar, Tomer Tzuk | Photografer: Sivan Zteelon

Acknowledgments: Salt of the Earth, Tzuk Farm, Yair Vardi, Hilik Omer

Performance: September 17^th at 14:00 and 20:30. Tickets are 100 NIS.

Truth or Dare in Chambers

Bewitched Hand Reflections

Pathos Mathos Company in the artistic direction of Lilach Dekel-Avneri

Pathos Mathos Company invites the audience to take part in a social experiment as we prepare for the premiere of the “Chamber of chambers” project at The Elma Arts Complex in November 2016.

Over the course of the evening we will expropriate the game from its familiar context of friendly gatherings steaming with sexual tension and the tearing down of barriers amongst peers. The game will be repurposed to create an original performative format, blending audience with artists, inviting the players to engage, expose and be privy to personal confessions, and to subvert and challenge the boundaries between them.

“Truth Or Dare In Chambers” is an event in a series of performative studies of the components and themes of biblical mythology and of their manifestations in our culture today which the company has been exploring for the past year.

Playing: Lilach Dekel-Avneri, Dganit Elyakim, Eitan Buganim, Shachaf Dekel, Eran Hadas, Lihi Chen, Keren Katz, Zohar Meidan, Lani Shahaff | Lighting: Rotem Elroy | Assistant director: Itay Plaut

Performance with audience participation required – there are no onlookers. September 17^th at 21:00. Tickets are 35 NIS. Admission from age 16 +

SLAP/STICK By Hermann Heisig (Germany)

“Get ready, take a run at it, address the void:

SLAP/STICK is a solo celebrating involuntary action, the vastness of space, and the constant denial of efficiency.

Inspired in Henri Bergsons text “Laughter- an Essay on the meaning of comic”, Hermann dives to the physicality of absentmindedness, exaggeration and mechanical movement.

Using made up Brazilian dances and gestural material of several comedians, SLAP/STICK searches for an essence of the comical body – in what way is this essence pointing towards something constituting us as humans?”

Choreography, Production: Hermann Heisig | Artistic advisors: Elpida Orfanidou, Silke Z., Anna Volkland, Nuno Lucas | Set design: Jaka Plesec | Music: Tian Rotteveel | Lighting design: Benjamin Schälike

Production manager: Susanne Ogan Produced by Hermann Heisig in Co- production with tanz.tausch Festival Cologne and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Office for Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Supported by fabrik Potsdam in the frame of the artists-in-residence programme

Performance: September 18^th at 19:00; September 19^th at 19:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Acco Theatre Centre presents:

Mozi Kumbaz Seeks Enlightenment By Smadar Yaaron

Mozi Kumbaz exercises and demonstrates. On the verge of retirement, yogi investigates continued stretching of boundaries of human endurance. On the verge of breakthrough, yogi shares intimate sessions of knowledge through universal postures of empowering body and soul.

By: Smadar Yaaron | Co-creator: Dr. Nataly Turgeman | Artistic consultant and image design: David Maayan | Lighting: Manhal Omar

Acknowledgments: Tami Katz-Freiman, Sinai Peter, Osnat Shnek-Yosef, Hila Golan, Moni Yosef, Yuval Meskin

Performance: September 18^th at 20:30; September 27^th at 20:30. In Hebrew. Tickets are 35 NIS.

MAKE YOURSELF By Marta Ziółek (Poland)

MAKE YOURSELF starts with a training, an order and a body sculpture. The subject of this experiment is a group of 5 performers. For the performance time they put on following names: High Speed, Coco, Lordi, Glow and Beauty. Marta Ziółek as Angel Dust is a moderator and a guide through this experience. We are somewhere between gym, techno party and corporate mindfulness church.

MAKE YOURSELF is a utopian structure, which creates its own style, language and sexuality. It is a kind of trip, which transmutes body into a machine. Here the very individual monologues blend with hybrid group workout and trance practice consisting of rave, kundalini yoga, latino flow & dancehall.

MAKE YOURSELF is a gang, which creates and transforms itself to the Lutto Lento music.

Performance: September 19^th at 19:00 and 21:30. Tickets are 70 NIS.

New solo work / Maya Dunietz

New solo work by Maya Dunietz, premiered in the UK August 2016. The piece can be read as a farewell ceremony from a deep and much loved pain, a spiritual house-cleaning, an invitation to peak at new possibilities and surprises, free from old principles, ideals and beliefs.

A spatial invitation to experience new version of the Self

Dunietz will be playing a variety of instruments, such as accordion, drums, xylophone and hosho.

By and performed by: Maya Dunietz

Thanks: God, Nadia and Gal and to my parents who got me to this point

Nava Frenkel / I LOOK AFTER

At this short piece, I examine how old images I created in the past change their shape when I execute them, not the performers who participated in them originally.

By and performed by: Nava Frenkel

Performance: September 20^th at 19:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Multi By Anat Katz and Erez Maayan

Multi is a movement, social, and neurophysiological research that functions within the tension between wanted ads that demand “multitasking and full efficiency in each of the tasks” and the social necessity to be a perfect parent, perfect partner, maintain a perfect career, and concurrently enjoy all of these things, and between the scientific research that repeatedly proves that the human brain was not designed to multitask, and will eventually fail and get lost amid the multiple tasks.

Acknowledgments: Mifal Hapayis, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, Israeli Choreographers Association, Ministry of Culture and Sports

Performance: September 20^th at 20:30. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Sweetie, You Ain’t Guilty By Goni Paz

‘Sweetie, You Ain’t Guilty’ deals with the miserable choice between the loneliness of keeping a secret and the horror of sharing it with an audience, whoever that audience may be.

Avoiding resolution, the work (and the one who performs it) attempts to ‘fall in-between’ – action and paralysis, reality and fiction, tenderness and sharpness, self and (an)other.

In a fluent medial zapping, the spectators move from one image to another to establish an intuitively shared language with the performer. The performance is scattered with attempts to breach comfort zones and aims at moments of both intimacy and exposure, to which the audience is invited. At a site of mutual understanding, or – at least – the collective acknowledgement of the failure to attain it.

By and performed by: Gony paz | Artistic advisor: Ana Zak, Raz Viner, Rotem Elroy | Lighting design: Amir Castro | Acknowledgments: Iris Paz Bareket, Mai Ailon, Faye Shpiro, Kurt Cobain, Michal Ben-Anat, Chihiro Ishiyama, Yair Vardi, Ira Avneri and to my dear surprising family.

Nina Traub / Yearning

I seek to find the peak of my- ‘self’

I seek all kinds of ‘self’- ones that are not usually with me.

Within and contrary to me.

Uniformity blue is my anchor- my guideline to grasp lightness and unity.

It is bold, sets me apart and empowers me- yet blends me in.

The wide gap between imagination and what I yet to know.

Surrounded by Blue,I long for what i cannot describe.

By and performed by: Nina Traub | light: Hanni Vardi | Music: Eleni Karaindrou- Hearing the time | Acknowledgments: The school of visual theatre and Guy gutman, My teachers, Sia preminger, Eiv kristal, Dror tshuva, My mother, Hanni

Performance: September 21^st at 20:30; September 22^nd at 19:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Tmuna Ensemble presents:

The Conversation Piece By Yair Vardi

Seven artists meet their audience in a salon turned laboratory, a private room historically used as a public space inside people’s homes. This piece transforms the traditionally public space of the theater, into the private space of a home. The Conversation Piece searches for Israeli identity as well as for national identity while creating it live on stage. It seeks to find the roots of individual identity and our simultaneous acceptance of and resistance to, the nation state.

How does the Zionist body control our physical one? Why do we buy an airplane ticket every morning and by evening decide to stay in the country? Why is everything political and how are our alter-egos and Herzl related to all of this?

Come visit our salon, let’s undress, dress, take off and try on Israel in 2016.

With: Jason Danino Holt, Avraham Horowitz, Ricki Hayut, Yair Vardi, Stav Marin, Nataly Zukerman, Rotem Tashach | Stage: Iris Mualem | Lights: Rotem Elroy | Artistic management: Nava Zukerman | Director’s asst.: Michal Ben Yehuda | External asst.: Mor Leedor | Special thanks to Keren Ida Nathan for her collaboration

Performance: September 21^st at 19:00; September 22^nd at 20:30; September 23^rd at 14:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Thy Neighbor

By Alma Weich Hoshen & Noga Elkin-Efrat

A journey through stories of suspicion and racism – prejudices that are expressed through discrimination and hate crimes.

The journey combines news stories, historical events, enthusiastic speeches and ridiculous meetings. Testimonies are brought through the eyes of attackers, victims and bystanders.

The oldest story of hatred is told through scenes from Israeli Youth trips to

Poland, soccer violence, encounters between Ethiopians, Asians, black and white people, Arabs and Jews.

The personal and public stories become integrated and tell us that we are all afraid

of the other and prefer our similar.

The fear incites hatred, aggression and blood.

The loss and pain might illuminate the oldest commandment – “Love thy Neighbor” like yourself.

By: Alma Weich Hoshen & Noga Elkin-Efrat | Set design: Aya Ben Asher

Music: Uri Efrat | Lighting design: Dania Zemer | With: Eyal Shecter, Amit Ozer, Sharon Burstain, Yakir Shukrun

Performance: September 23^rd at 14:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Tmuna Ensemble presents:

Diary of a Mad Man

Directed by Nitzan Choen & Yosi Rahmane

An original adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic work: The comedy of a junior clerk whose main job is sharpening quills, who falls in love with the manager’s daughter and sets out on a mad journey in pursuit of his love – a journey during which he discovers that he is actually the King of Spain.

Performance: September 23^rd at 20:30. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Need Some Body By Miri Segal and Maya Magnat

Two human avatars on stage invite the audience to operate them. Each audience pair has 10 minutes with which to control the avatars using text messages and emojis, communicating with each other using their surrogate bodies- the avatars. The mediated communication between operators and avatars examines the differences between text and action, self and proxy, virtual and real, and dares the participants to explore how far they are willing to go. The audience is invited to watch the avatars interpret and act on the messages they receive, and operate them in turn…

By: Miri Segal and Maya Magnat | Artistic advisor: Lior Zalmanson | Music: ccMixter Preformers: Doron Lev and Maya Magnat

Performance: September 24^th from 17:00 – 22:00. The audience is invited to come and go as they please throughout the performance. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Not Letting It In

By Jason Danino Holt

Not Letting It In is a 5 hour, singular, improvised event that explores the art of confessions.

In “Not Letting It In” performers from around the world, sit around a table and confess real autobiographical confessions.

The “communal task” given to the performers is to create, along with the audience, a new zone, a temporary community, a haven (or hell?).

a playground of no comment and no judgment.

During the 5 hours the audience is welcome to join, leave and come back as they wish. In this spirit, the audience is welcome to confess as well.

Creator: Jason Danino Holt I Dramaturg: Nataly Zukerman I This show cast: Bar Elyakim, Yossi shaany Yarom, Zohar Miedan ,Orit (Ora) Mamrud, Adi Nitzan, Amit Regev and Jason Danino Holt I Ensemble cast: Yedidia Vital, Guy Gurevich I Producer: Omer Alsheich | Inspirations: Forced Entrainment – “Quizoola”, “Speak Bitterness“, Sarah Kane – “4.48 Psychosis” | Special thanks to: Shahar Gadesh, Noa Biron, Naama Amit, Ariel Brown, Tal Haran, Yuval Scharf saban, Magi Azarzar, Tom Hagi, Yair Vardi, Gal Lev, Marina Beltov, Hagar Cohen, Ofer Ben Natan, Yael Shaked, Ram Gil, Yuval Artzi, Yoav Barel, Sari Golan, Aviv Hofi, Galay PR, Utopia, Ofer Laufer, Tom Idelson, Erez Hason, Roi Shulberg, Tmuna Theatre.

Performance: September 24^th 17:00 – 22:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Mixed Media

By Michal Dvir

The performance scrutinizes the different ways in which we delimit and imprison ourselves, the ways in which we surround ourselves with ideas and beliefs, with social norms and conditionings with concept and rules that limit our leeway, dominate our life and fixate our progression. Mixed Media is a conceptual work exploring our tendency, as individuals and society, to live within fixed and defined borders. Borders based on accepted norms which were gradually formed in order to keep society moral and organized. De Facto, these borders limit us and control our life. Throughout the performance we try to question our beliefs and to figure out whether we can let go of them and be free.

By: Michal Dvir | Preformers: Sharon Tal and Michal Dvir | Artistic advisor: Yair Vardi Video: Michal Dvir and Yoav Ruda

Acknowledgments: Nava Zukerman, Yair Vardi, Tmu-Na theatre, Alit Kreiz

Performance: September 26^th at 19:00; September 27^th at 19:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Calipers By Daphna Horenczyk

Blinking shoes in a dark room, funky music and a dancing hooded creature with a hairy face: that’s Calipers, a solo dance performance by the dancer and choreographer Daphna Horenczyk. Influenced by elements of street and break-dance she plays with the concept of “fixation” of different body parts on the ground and the possibilities of moving around and over this axis. The limb moored to center stage functions as a point of quasimagnetic push and pull, with the dancer’s body circling around it in rhythmical and ever new forms and paths. In Calipers Daphna Horenczyk creates a live body kaleidoscope right in front of us.

By, preformed, and custom design: Daphna Horenczyk | Artistic advisor: Nitzan Lederman | Lighting design: Amir Castro | Music: Azealia Banks, Chicks On Speed, Anarchic System, Sachiko M

Acknowledgments: MAAT Festival – Lublin Center of Culture, Ilya Kull

WHICH DANCE By Ido Feder

Two female soldiers, one is bored and the other is good hearted. Two out of a whole army of women whose contribution to the military project is somewhat doubtful. None the less, these two insist on being a part of something. Thus, in the spirit of Mary Wigman )the maker of the notorious “Witch Dance” from 1921( and other witches, they attempt a small ceremony in which, at least, they might acquire some of the expression needed for the fight.

By: Ido Feder | Dancers: Bosmat Nossan, Shani Granot | Artistic advisement: Yair Vardi and Tal Yahas | Music: “Galgalaz” – The Mizrachi version | Acknowledgments: Shir Hacham and Laura Kirshenbaum

Performance: October 1^st at 20:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Tmuna Shakespeare Festival

M.C Coriolanus Directed by Itai Doron

Coriolanus is the last tragic historical play that William Shakespeare wrote. The play is based on the life of the Roman general, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, in the beginning of Roman-Republic rule. Coriolanus is a play that deconstructs the common governmental rule to question marks, exclamation points and mainly ellipses. It stimulates an emotional and intellectual debate about the history which we are a part of, our form of government and the role of the people in a democracy. Through the story of the Roman general, Coriolanus, and through the story of two nations at war, we encounter a society which reveres war and honor, and defiles integrity and its leaders. This is the story of history’s first dem ocratic republic: A journey towards history in the making, which we are an inseparable part of. The role of heroes and generals, of borders and their infiltration. Rome is here and all paths lead to it.

Best Director (Itai Doron), best male actor (Ronen Yifrach) and best female actress (Michal Rubin) at the international fringe festival in Acre 2015.

Tmuna Ensemble Presents: HamletMachine Directed by Nava Zukerman

When I approached Muller’s “HamletMachine” I re-discovered Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Both were unrelenting. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” finds himself on a journey to cleanse his house. The house his mother and uncle contaminated with murder, lies and manipulation in order to preserve the crown.

Muller pummels Shakespearean “Hamlet” for his naivete, hindering him from taking a clear stand or from taking action. In “Hamlet Machine” Muller dares pull the Shakespearean Hamlet out of his era and plant him in his own time and place )Eastern Germany(. He expresses, through classical Hamlet’s voice, his emotions and opinions on the society and times in which he lives.

I found myself facing two different voices, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Muller’s “Hamlet”.

Inspired by Muller, I went searching for the “Hamlet” of my own time and place.

“I was “Hamlet”, says Muller.

I’m from the “Hamlets”, wrote And Ophelia? She doesn’t fall in the water. She stays around to watch over the pulse of the world.”

Nava Zuckerman

Performances: September 29^th at 20:00; September 30^th at 19:30; October 1^st at 20:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Now I Am Alone By Nick Hutchison and Dori Engel

Shakespeare’s outsiders gather in one play. The king in exile, the fool, the refugee, the outcast – they all have something to say about society and human nature. The show tells the story of these people and brings, with humour, Irony and pain, this unique point of view – the point of view of Shakespeare himself.

Performances: September 29^th at 20:00; September 30^th at 20:00. Tickets are 35 NIS.

Shakespeare: Page to Stage Nick Hutchison

An interactive workshop for actors and directors, examining how Shakespeare’s company, The Chamberlain’s Men, (The King’s Men after 1603) produced his plays. We examine the repertoire system, which meant an almost complete lack of rehearsal as we understand it, and we perform from cue scripts, the only texts the actors were given at the time.

The workshop explores how these constraints affected Shakespeare’s writing, and how this informs our understanding of the plays and how we perform them. It takes in verse work, the versatile tool Shakespeare uses to direct his cast, and language in general; it examines staging, atmosphere, costume and, most importantly, the role of the visible audience, in a theatre when there are no lights to turn down. This workshop will change the way the actor approaches the plays, and fundamentally alter their performance choices.

September 25 – 27^th from 10:00 – 15:00 each day. The workshop is 300 NIS. To register, send an email to tmuna@tmu-na.org.il It looks like this workshop will be in English, please contact Tmuna to confirm.

Playing Shakespeare Dori Engel

What does playing in a Shakespearian play mean? What does it require from an actor? What techniques do we need to develop in order to deliver classical texts? Shakespeare challenges actors and brings them to stretch the boundaries of their expression. He combines fascinating characters and extreme situations with complex and poetic language. The workshop invites us to explore tools to deal with these challenges. We will learn to identify the secrets that Shakespeare puts for actors in the text, and develop ways to widen the means of expression.

The workshop will take place September 24^th and 25^th from 10:00 – 15:00. The cost is 150 NIS. To register send an email to: tmuna@tmu-na.org.il. It looks like this workshop will be conducted in Hebrew, please contact Tmuna to confirm.

The full festival program and additional information may be found on the website, in Hebrew.

*All performance information and descriptive texts provided by Tmuna Theatre.