Coming soon to an apartment, sidewalk, empty lot or school near you: Talooy BaMakom – a unique performing arts festival taking place for the first time in Tel Aviv from October 14 – 16, 2010. Transforming the city of Tel Aviv into an alternative performing arts venue, with theatre, dance and music performances taking place in unconventional spaces, Talooy BaMakom (roughly translates as “depending on the place”) is the initiative of Nataly Zukerman and Lechay Bekerman, joint artistic directors of the festival.
The full program is available online: www.TALOOY-BaMAKOM.com. Although the site is in Hebrew, the map with numbers will be useful for adventurous navigators of this unusual festival.
Performances #1, 2 & 3 take place in a former Tel Nordau school building on 19 Mendele Mocher Sfarim Street. From the comic – in “Three Exposures” directed by Ayelet Golan with music by Ifat Levi, flatmates (Doron Lev, Ayelet Golan and Ifat Levi) decide to build a partition in the exact center of their shared space, inevitably involving everyone in the room in the process, to the serious – in “The Table” Naomi Yoeli’s adaptation of Ida Fink’s account of four witnesses to an act of mass murder recalling the events of the Holocaust from the distance of time, wit music written and performed by Yosef Mar Haim, and performed by Dina Blay, Miki Marmor, and Naomi Yoeli.
Walk up the street to #4 at the Friends bar on 186 Ben Yehuda for a chat with the barman a series of monologues created by Nataly Zukerman and Lechay Bekerman, performed by Shlomi Edry, Ron Richter, Alon Levi, Ariel de Castro and Haim Aboud.
Close by on 12 Mapu Street, in apartment 12, is #5, created by Kinneret Peled and directed by Lechay Bekerman – everything there is to know about renting in Tel Aviv, performed by Kinneret Peled, Shlomi Edry, Roey Zadok and Ron Richter.
On the corner of Ben Gurion and HaYarkon is #6 – Ofer Sarig and the saga of city parking.
Or head south to 1 Mendel Street in Neve Tzedek, where #11 musician Eran Brill will entertain you in his home on percussion, bass, clarinet and harmonium, with guests Itamar Rothschild on vocals and guitar, Tal Hafter on piano and Avihai Tuchman on bass.
More music at #16 from Dotan Malach’s soon to be released album. An intimate folk rock evening with Dotan Malach on vocals and guitar, Iftach Shahaf on guitar and Hila Sharvit on violin, vocals and percussion all in an apartment on 10 HaSadna Street, second floor.
Dancer/choreographers Tamar Borrer and Anat Shamgar present #15 “Fast, Alone and Now” a dance performance that takes place in Tamar’s studio on 2 Hatnufa (it’s a path, not a street) on the second floor of building number 6, near the Rosenfeld Gallery.
For something completely different try a lesson in Arabic cuisine at #17 on 10 HaZerem Street. Directed by Roey Hertz and performed by Karin Shtang, Roey Hertz, Avital Tidhar, Helit Michaeli and Uri Levin, the 60 NIS cost includes a meal.
Most performances are a very reasonable 30 NIS and last about 45 minutes.
Two events are free and open to the public:
The dance arts journal Ma’akaf is sponsoring a discussion on site-specific performances (the theme for their current issue) that will take place on Friday, October 15 at 11:00 at “The Little Prince” – 3 Simta Plonit (entrance from King George Street).
Closing party – Saturday, October 16 at 22:00 Shuk HaPishpishim, the flea market in Jaffa.
