Every day of the festival, at the Clipa Theater Bar, before the main show begins, Zvi (Hebrew word for Deer) warms up the audience, juggles with the drinks and kick-starts the food in a variety of bizarre characters.
The Dear Deer is a completely different deer every day, adapting to its natural habitat, according to the native country of the group performing that day.
The typical Israeli Deer will sing Israeli folk music when the Israeli groups perform, Giorgio the charlatan charmer deer will accompany the Italian Group, Slippery Gustav will mix cool drinks for the Finish group, a mysterious character will accompany the Japanese performers and finally – the dear deer will go back to its origins when the Russian group arrives.
Creator, performer, writer, player, baker and bar-deer: Zvi Patrovsky.
Israeli Creation - Program A
pantomime / Movement / Physical Theater
Diamedia
modern pantomime. The love story of a man and a television.
One boring day, as boring as all of the ones before, during the usual Television watching time, something finally happens and changes the plans.
Through the story of a lonely man and his TV, the many paces of this media are exposed. a story of love and hate that will finally tell us who gets to keep the remote control.
Creators and Performers: Daniel Brosovni and Anael Blumental. Sound track: Jonathan Yudkovich Design: Shutzi, Costume design: Noam Blumental Thanks to Daniel Bozer.
With sadness Movement Theater
A Dance - a confession for one human performer and fifty rubber ducklings.
Symbols, myths, associations and personal experiences combine to create a hybrid, multi-faced and contradictions, of a young mother.
Creators: Tami and Ronen Yitschaki
Performer: Creators: Tami Yitschaki
Music: Broadway Project, DXM
Eggnes three clerks and an egg
Physical Theater
Three strange clerks are executing a meaningless Sisyphean task, in a grayish office.
They are subjected to the authority of a tough, mysterious and silent boss – a giant egg!
Their melancholy work routine is cut off by a power failure, causing a surprising and far reaching change in the workforce and human relation at the office.
Creation and direction: Rotem Volk and Hagar Ben Zaken
Three duets between a person and its shadow, combining dance and video art.
A struggle and a separation of a figure from its shadow, in a precise and complex dialog with the shadow world.
The piece deals with the tension between the Visible and the hidden, with the secretes that threaten to burst out of the disciplined and meticulous dancer's body, undergoing an unveiling process, dealing with his disobedient shadow.
The woman who did not want to come down to earth
Visual theater
Episodes in the life of a woman that refuses to touch ground.
Up in the air, she obeys neither rules nor gravity, reaches extreme and absurd situations trying to preserve the unbearable lightness.
A piece of total theater, combining movement in its extreme form, with speech and everyday objects.
Creator and performer: Gabrielle Neuhaus
Atom
Dance Theater
Combining movement, video and shadow theater Atom reveals a couple, exploring the different possibilities and depth of the physical connection.
Moving in a space under gravity that transcends both of them, Slamming body to body until the borders and outlines blur together, until they become one.
Creators and performers: Oded Zadok, Kazuyo Shionoiri.
Traffica
Object Theater
An energetic visual theater performance, using a theatrical language that combines commix, sign language and slapstick, to present the sad and funny story of an elderly couple that lost all means of communication with one another, except…road signs! After years of mutual misunderstanding, they have developed an extensive set of rules and regulations for self expression through road signs. And so, they fight, argue, bring up memories and mainly – keep a safe distance until the inevitable clash.
The Year of the Hare
Visual theater & animation
On the stage: a little woman in a big box, a big man in a small box, a small box in a big box.
"Assuming every man had a box that contains something we call 'a beetle' and no one could ever look at another one's box, then everyone will know what is this beetle just by looking on their own beetle". (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Moving Hold group, founded by Osnat Wald and Efrat Rubin, explores potential connections between different arts disciplines. The group's work has a distinctive design style, alongside complex and brave choice of content.
The term Moving Hold is taken from the animation world and describes the pause of a minimal movement - instilling life in a static position, creating the illusion of a presence.
Osnat Wald, a graduate of the Bezalel arts academy (animation department) and the Hebrew university, an animator dealing with the connections between animation and dance and a lecturer at the Bezalel arts Academy.
Wald was a member of the animation team of the movie "Waltz with Bashir" and amongst her works you can find the video dance work "Day", presented in many festivals around the world.
Efrat Rubin danced and interned as a choreographer at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, belonging the Belgian dance group ROSAS.
A choreographer, dancer and designer, she graduated the Bezalel arts academy (Visual communication), Rubin's work was presented in both Israel and Belgium.
Creator: Osnat Wald and Efrat Rubin
Performers and co-creators: Yuval Goldstein, Osnat Wald, Ofir Yudilevich and Efrat Rubin
Art, set and costume design: Osnat Wald and Efrat Rubin
Set exacution: Yaron Salkin
Animation: Osnat Wald
Music: Yonatan Alblack
Sound effects: Yael Dakar
Thanks to: Wald family, Yoni Kazman, Iris Mualem, Rubin family and Lior Schechter
A solo creation, incorporating live text, in which the performer explores the relevance of modern dance and the essence of performance art, in her eyes and in the eyes of her audience, viewing the audience's demands as a consumer and art as a product while creating a dialogue about the value, so to speak, of culture.
Michal Herman, an independent artist, graduate of the Kibbutzim Collage.
Performs and creates for festivals in Israel and around the world and creates for Clipa Theater.
Awarded the "Minister of Science, Culture and Sport's prize" for young artists for the years 2003 and 2007.
Creator and performer: Michal Herman
Rite of Spring
An Adaptation by dancer and creator Hilel Cogan to the Rite of Spring, a milestone in the history of dance, readapted by countless choreographers since it's premier, with the choreography of the legendary Vaclav Nijinsky.
The original music by Igor Stravinsky, alongside quotes of choreographers and ghosts from the dance pantheon, draw the fine line on which Cogan walks to sacrifice himself as the victim for his ritual. The victim's conflict takes place between the mind and the hart, between the beast and the civilized man, between the loyal patriot and the traitor.
In a series of images based on performance clichés and with obedience to Stravinsky's music, a limited and fixed time exists, the spring, a time of an urgent opportunity to concur and exercise passions.
Creator and performer: Hilel Cogan
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Costumes and props: Hilel Cogan
Artistic advice: Irad Matzliach and Nava Zukerman
Created for Intima Dance Festival 2011, Tmuna Theater.
My father is a clown!
Modern Clowning
Unexpected incidents happen to F', an actor and a very serious person, on his way to the show you are about to watch tonight. F' gets in to trouble and doesn't arrive to fulfil your expectations.
He does not break a leg, he is not arrested for an interrogation and even his clown father doesn't help him in developing the problematic plot.
Eventually, we are left with no choice but to be careless and float, weightless and with no content, on the laughter waves, in the brilliant nonsense world of mister F'.
Fyodor Makarov (1975), actor, clown and creator, graduate of the school for visual theater in Jerusalem. After graduating he joined the legendary clown group of Slava Polonin (Snowshow) and travelled all over the world with them. Fyodor created "the Don Vitorio Celebration" (2006), "legends" (2007), Odiceus Ceoticus (2008), one and a half (2011).
Amongst his selected and complex roles: a Shark in "Snowshow", Monkey in "marvels and wonders", and a Pigeon in "a Pigeon and a Boy" (Gesher Theater).
Creator and performer: Fyodor Makarov
Gindaor
Butoh
Gindaor is a halved creature, Amphibian, existing on the fine line between reality and imagination.
It wakes up from an eternal coma, looks at the sunlight in cold blood and waits.
Suddenly something happens. Everything floats, bursts from within it. In Crocodile tears it sheds its skin, splashes itself with water jets, Simulates its prey, and invites itself to an imaginary duel, a dance of life and death.
Arthur Astman is an artist, fisherman, painter and dancer with an extraordinarily powerful physical ability. In his youth he studied in the strict Russian balet schools, where he also specialized in Russian folk dances.
After coming to Israel he danced with several groups, took part in many dance projects and even won the reality competition "born to dance".
His work is dreamy and based on the sincerity of his performance, alongside complexed and special movement.
He moves within the
He moves within the ideological foundations of Butoh, while he carries on his back the long tail of the Russian dance tradition.
Creator and performer: Arthur Astman
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