{"id":5334,"date":"2010-05-30T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2012-09-05T05:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:53:42","slug":"oz-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=5334","title":{"rendered":"Oz in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yasmeen Godder Love Fire\/Photo: Tamar Lam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s no place like home \u2013 if you live in Tel Aviv. But even if you\u2019re from Kansas, you can enjoy \u201cOz in the City<\/strong>\u201d a weekend of interdisciplinary performance works taking place throughout Tel Aviv. Curated by Yehudit Shapira Haviv, the works chosen merge art, music, cinema, dance, new media and theatre and will take place in diverse venues. Even the name, with it\u2019s allusion to both the Land of Oz and the Hebrew word for courage, sets up the expectation of an unusual journey.
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Oz in the City \u2013 Full Program<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 2
\n“Hey Britney”\/”Voice Over”
\n<\/strong>20:00 Tmu-na, 8 Soncino St, 03-5611211
\n“Hey Britney”
\n<\/strong>Created by Yair Vardi and Alit kreiz
\nAlit Kreiz \u2013 performer
\n“Voice over”
\n<\/strong>Created and performed by Michal Dvir
\nTwo pieces, two intentions, two attempts by two separate women on stage, claiming their right to exist peacefully and intensively.
\n“Fight or Flight”<\/strong>
\n21:30 Tmu-na
\nSagit Mezamer \u2013 video installation and drawings and Zohar Shafir (Nico Teen) \u2013 music and singing
\nParts of video installation, Yordei Hasira, in which as an array of drawings are consequently merged together using digital editing techniques combined with a work of sound and song.
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Eifo Dana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Eifo Dana” Company<\/strong>
\n22:00 Tmu-na
\nCreated by The Eifo Dana Company, Yair Kass \u2013 Music, Ram Matza \u2013 video
\nSix minutes and forty seconds, five meters wide paper, and through a timed sequence of actions, Eifo Dana will perform a collective ritual that ends with the erection of a large origami paper object. The performance will be accompanied by live video feeds.
\n“Wild”<\/strong>
\n22:15 Tmu-na
\nOri Lichtik \u2013 Musician, DJ, drummer \u2013 creates original music for modern dance performance. He is an expert on varied techniques of sound that revolves around groove, rhythm, and improvisation.
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Animal Memories Amit Drori and Gai Sherf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Animal Memories”<\/strong>
\n22:45 Tmu-na
\nGai Sherf \u2013 musician and Amit Drori \u2013 theatre director and designer
\nIn this audio\/visual installation on stage there are objects inspired by music, music inspired by objects, mechanical animals, digital nature, and imaginary landscapes.
\n“Bney Hama”<\/strong>
\n23:15 Tmu-na
\nIshai Adar \u2013 electronic musician and film composer and Ohad Fishof \u2013 musician, dancer and artist
\nIn this live show electronic synthesizer tunes and background sounds join fragmented texts and movement creating danceable beats that combine minimalism and drama.<\/p>\n

Thursday, June 3
\n\u201cMarina P.O.P\u201d<\/strong>
\n21:00 Zimmer, 5 HaGdud HaIvri Street
\n“Soak”<\/strong>
\n17:30-19:30 Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, 27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd. 03-6077020
\nShahar Marcus\u2013\u00a0 visual artist
\nThis performance is a personal journey that is both physical and spiritual.
\n“Echo”
\n<\/strong>20:00 Rothschild 69
\nVideo by Nir Evron, participants: Uzi Feinerman \u2013 musical score and performance and Shaham Ohana \u2013 music
\nThis video projection with live music soundtrack consists of archive material and original soundtrack. These materials undergo digital manipulation making them deconstruct and reform in a way that resembles the sewing and fraying of fabric.
\n“Schnechentempo”<\/strong>
\n21:00 Rothschild 69
\nNevet Yitzhak \u2013 video, audio and direction and Yael Barolsky \u2013 violinist
\nSchnechentempo combines live music (solo violin), video, and soundtrack.
\n“Body Without Organs \u2013 Experiment No.1”<\/strong>
\n19:30 CCA
\nAdiya Porat\u2013\u00a0 Curator
\nA spatial composition constructed event, which enables one-time meetings between artworks that exist in different spaces and random times.
\nAch with Alex Drool \u2013Zimmer View’s gooay Mo’p
\n21:00 Zimmer
\nLive audio\/video by Michal Rivlin and Asaf Setty<\/p>\n

Friday, June 4
\n“Friday, an excerpt from Seven Days” (a work in progress)<\/strong>
\n12:00 CCA
\nCreated by Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Maya Dunietz and Alona Rodeh
\nFriday is a day of audio-visual happenings inspired by the sixth day of creation, as it is depicted in Genesis I.
\nSupported by Tel Aviv Municipality with the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the arts and The Pais (Israeli lottery) Committee for Arts and Culture.
\n“On the yellow brick road\u2026”
\n<\/strong>16:00-19:00 Cinematheque
\n5 comments on The Wizard of Oz combined with rare clips from the film by Uri Klein, Gili Bar-Hillel Semo, Sahara Blau, Sivan Shtang, and Yehuda Nuriel
\n“Love Fire”<\/strong>
\n12:00 Yasmeen Godder’s studio, 1 HaTkuma St, Yafo
\nBy Yasmeen Godder and Yochai Matos
\nThis dance performance is about the aesthetics of romance through a personal and private prism and with the desire to be moved and charged by it, without judging it.
\nOz in the Spaceship<\/strong>
\n18:00 The Spaceship \u2013 70 Hayarkon St
\nA carnival wandering off the Yellow Brick Road and into the Spaceship
\nAmong the Goofs: Ilanit Ben Yaakov and Vered Dror, Bordel Total, Daphna and the Cookies, Jossef Krispel, Sally Krysztal Kramberg, Hybrid Lava, Michel Platnic, Ariela Plotkin, Achi Raz, Meital Raz, Nissim Zadok<\/p>\n

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Saturday, June 5
\n“Ballet in Levinsky Garden”<\/strong>
\n19:00 Levinsky Garden
\nBy Netally Schlosser, Lior Waterman, Moti Brecher
\nThe Garden Library for Migrant Communities in Tel Aviv hosts Ballet in Levinsky Garden, a unique event combining performance and dance. During the event a variety of dance will be performed including performances from Ethiopia, Ecuador, the Philippines, India, China, and Sudan.
\nProduced with the support of the Rabinovich Foundation
\n“Dado-masochism” \u2013 Marina P.O.P<\/strong>
\n20:00 Rothschild 12
\nBy Rafael Balbirski and Guy Hugler
\nA unique integration of sound and visual mediums referencing a vanished entertainment form called “Spook Shows,” using the \u201cpleasure of fear\u201d principle
\nMikraot Israel
\n<\/strong>21:00 Rothschild 12
\nBy Joseph Sprinzak
\nAudio performance based on voice processing and sound technologies of texts out of “Mikraot Israel.” The manipulation of the material gives an ironic meaning to the affinity between language studies and the conquest of Israel’s ethos.
\nMusic Show<\/strong>
\n22:00 Rothschild 12
\nAriela Plotkin (Miss PLO) and Barak Ravitz together and separately perform adapted sweeping pop songs in a dramatic, cabaret style.
\nNX2 SPACE PATROL
\n<\/strong>23:00 Rothschild 12
\nBy Shahar Yahalom, Noga Shatz and Alex Levi
\nAn alternative rock band of three musicians who play original material in English
\nMusic by Avi Sabah, Pesach Slabosky and Gabi Kricheli
\n24:00 Rothschild 12
\nThese three artists create the music during the show in an exciting and scary way
\nAshmai HaVideo Hosts: Schenkentempo<\/strong>
\n21:00 Zimmer
\nNevet Yitzhak and Yael Barolsky
\nLive video concert with violin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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