K. is a dark fun-fare that offers wonderful and extreme visual versions to very short stories of Kafka. The selected stories are staged all through the three stories theater building.
Director: Idit Herman
Stage Design: Dmitry Tyulpanov and Idit Herman
Costume Design: Idit Herman and Lee Meir
Music: Dirk Kunesch , Yonatan Kunda and Dmitry Tyulpanov
Light Design: Asi Gotesman
Production: Nili Maman and Uri Levin
Actors: Oded Zadok, Yonatan Kunda, Dmitry Tyulpanov, Michal Gil, Tsvi Petrakowsky
"An intricate, adventurous production... rich with ideas of design, movement and acting... n impressive achievement"
Zvi Goren, "Habama"
"A theatrical adaptation that brings the abstract text to a fascinating, exciting and surprising reality... a circus-like, grotesque, entertaining and stimulating journey to the depths of the genius creator's mind..."
Shay Bar-Yaacob, Yediot Aharonot
K. will run for 8 exclusive performances from February 11th 2010.
For Tickets and more information 03-6879219
After years of intent, 12 months of rehearsals. 20 working days in the central jail of Jerusalem - the Museum of the Underground Prisoners - with 32 participants, K. will take you on a ghost ride through the crevices of the Kafka's furious mind.
K. is a dark fun-fare that offer wonderful and extreme visual versions to very short stories of Kafka. The selected stories staged in the cells and yards of the prison include visual theater, dance and live music, with an abundance of images and visions and even one crazy party.
K. is the fifth site-specific production that Clipa theater has staged in the Israel Festival, creating unique performances for various sites and locations throughout Jerusalem - including the festival's opening performance in 2001 and 2005. K.'s location in the museum of the Underground Prisoners has dictated the course and structure of the production and its main theme - presenting the artist as both prisoner and warden of his craft and in the eyes of his audience.
Those leaving Chelm, are destined to return to Chelm. Those remaining in Chelm - of course they are in Chelm!
Continuing Clipa's research into mythology and folk tales from the cradle of civilization, and yet in complete contradiction to the serious and tragic subjects chosen until now: here is Chelm.
A city of fools - born from an angel's mistake, and destroyed by man's folly, Chelm is a place where confusion rules and simpletons are blessed, where parables interweave creating a mindless reality, in which only through humor is sanity possible.
With a trumpet and a bell, a wash basin, a ladder and a rope one can catch the moon! Kosher Jewish tunes and images played by a troupe of actors originating from all over the world, Chelm gives naivete and optimism a chance - here are people striding fearlessly and knowingly to a sure end, leaving terms such as meaning or significance empty, light and devoid of content.
Chelm is a visual theater performance, based on the Jewish fables of the town of fools, combining movement and live music. The Wise Men of Chelm is suitable for any age.
"I was totally taken by the magic...wonderful, innovative images"
Achbar Ha'ir newspaper, Tel Aviv
"A wide range of unforgettable characters of virtuosic design... a daring, live and kicking piece of art"
Yediot Tel Aviv newspaper
"Clean, magical pictures...a once in a lifetime experience of high quality physical theater"
YNET website, Israel
"One of the most moving shows I've seen lately. Don't miss it"
Israel Today newspaper
Created, directed and designed by: Idit Herman
Creators and Participants: Dmitry Tyulpanov , Dirk Kunesch, Andreas Merk, Takanori Kawaharda, Zohar Cohen
Music: Dmitry Tyulpanov, Dirk Kunesch
Costumes: Lee Meir
Light: Uri Morag
Sound: Yaron Bariro / Zohar Zidon
Duration: 60 minutes
Clipa Theater adaptation of Rite of Spring is returning with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by maestro Yoel Levi) for a special series of nine performances between 17-26.2, in Tel Aviv, Haife and Jerusalem.
Inspired by the original production of the Ballet Russe, Clipa Theater's adaptation describes a society which has brought disaster upon itself, lost its land, with all it entails - gravity, fertility, center, hierarchy and direction.
Rite of Spring is a dance-theater piece that offers a bold interpretation of primal concepts, such as man's earthly urges opposing his mystic yearning towards the sky.
Rite of Spring premiered in collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003 conducted by Maestro Roni Porat.
The piece continues to run as a part of the Philharmonic Orchestra's program.
Rite of Spring is available also as an outdoor performance, in which the music is played by 2 pianists.
Direction and Choreography: Idit Herman
Performers: Alon Schwabe, Lee Meir, Michal Herman, Oded Tzadok, Stav Marin, Takanori Kawaharda, Yonatan Kunda, Zohar Cohen
Costumes: The Rakefet Levi School of Stage Design (designers: Romi Kisilov and Hamutal Zivelkovski)
Set: Dmitry Tyulpanov
Light: Uri Morag
Duration: 34 minutes
Orpheus was the first musician and father of all song. His music relaxed beasts and moved stones.
Unable to accept his beloved wife's death, Orpheus descends to the underworld to bring her back.
His gentle notes soften the hearts of demons and of hell's master, who agrees to release Eurydice under the strict condition that Orpheus does not look back at her on their way to the surface.
He looks back.
Clipa Theater's Orpheus moves through the narrative, using dance and live music in a rich visual world of object manipulation and symbolism.
"Orpheus is a mosaic of object manipulation....brilliant and groundbreaking"
Shiga Nobuo, Butoh-Art, Japan
"Clipa's artists are revolutionary warriors. They are forever pure!"
Yoshito Ono, DANCE DANCE DANCE, Japan
"This unique theater piece is pure poetry, it opens up the soul to declare: what awesome beauty"
Yediot Acharonot newspaper, Israel
"Visual theater at its best; tight, well made, very impressive"
Haaretz newspaper, Israel
Created, performed, designed and composed by: Dmitry Tyulpanov and Idit Herman
Light: Uri Morag
Sound: Dirk Kunesch
Duration: 60 minutes
Orpheus premiered at Session House Theater, Tokyo in April 2006 and in Israel, at Clipa Center for Performance Art, in July 2006.