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15.2.24
Thursday
20:00

Step - Scenes from the History of Humankind | Zvi Sahar Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book ‘Sapiens’

Long ago, Homo sapiens were just another animal of no particular importance. Now, we are masters of the earth, stronger than ever, lords of the universe, self-appointed gods. Gods who don't realize they are the last human species on earth. Is there anything more dangerous than gods who don’t know what they want?

In this new work, an adaptation for seven actors, a movie camera, and a single skeleton, the journey of Homo sapiens, our journey, is brought to life. Our discoveries, our inventions, our abilities explode onto the stage, laid bare in their beauty, wonder and raw power.  

In his innovative and unique theater language, Puppet Cinema, Zvi Sahar combines theater, movement, live cinema and puppetry. 
The works of Zvi Sahar ('The Road to Ein Harod', 'The Archivist and Archived') have received high praise and have captivated large audiences thanks to the charming depiction of the past resonating in modern language. 'Step' is another iteration of this unique artistic language, taking it one step forward.
Please note: this performance is also suitable for 9th graders and up.  

 

Director: Zvi Sahar | Artistic Advisor: Rina Yerushalmi Participants: Yuval Fingerman, Yinon Cohen, Yael Finkel | Ayelet Golan, Omri Raveh, Zvi Sahar, Chihiro Tazuro, Shani Shabtai.

 

Artist’s Notes
After the show, the audience is invited to a talk with its creator, Zvi Sahar, in the lobby.
 

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20.2
Thursday
20:00

On Listening | Prof. David Harel, Prof. Ruth Kanner and the Ruth Kanner Theater Group

A scientist listens to the music of words. A woman of the theater listens to the scientist. The actors of the theater group listen to both and perform. 

A conversation and acting segments on the connection between hearing and listening, intention and understanding. 

Professor Ruth Kanner - a theater director and creator, who has developed a unique and groundbreaking stage language over the years, and Professor David Harel - Israel Prize recipient in 2004, former dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose research deals with tools that help artificial intelligence listen, decode and interpret spoken text. 
The Ruth Kanner Theater Group – Since 1988, has been exploring processes on stage to deepen the means of expression in acting, movement, voice work, sound and visual images, stemming from deep listening to personal and artistic truth. 

Duration: approx. 1.5 hours.
 
24.2
Monday
20:00

The Property | Screening and dialog with Dana Modan

A journey full of secrets and deceptions, which begins with real estate issues but actually devotes itself to matters of the heart, in Dana Modan’s first film as director, based on a graphic novel with family autobiographical elements, written and illustrated by her sister, Rutu Modan.



Regina and her granddaughter Mika embark on a journey to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II. 
But their quest quickly unravels. Regina unexpectedly decides to abandon the mission entirely, leaving Mika lost and confused. 
To complicate matters further, an irritating distant relative keeps appearing at every turn. Just as Mika finds herself falling for a charming tour guide, Regina seizes the opportunity to pursue her own hidden agenda: finding her long-lost love, from whom she was separated seventy years ago.

 

‘The Property’ blends the different and similar characteristics of the Modan sisters as creators, and echoes their previous works: on the one hand, the pull to an ironic gaze and to comic situations steeped in black humor, evident in the television series created by Dana (‘Love Hurts’, ‘Significant Other’, ‘Aviram Katz’), and on the other hand, a dreamy-melancholic atmosphere that characterizes Rutu’s stories and illustrations. Cinematographer Yaron Scharf does a good job of translating the visual perspective of the illustrator Modan into film, and also of capturing Warsaw in a way that blurs its past and its present into a uniform, theatrical time, which well serves the journey that the grandmother and granddaughter take down memory lane.” (Shani Litman, Haaretz)
 

StageTalk Following the screening, a conversation with the film director Dana Modan