Set-Design: Noam Dover
Projections: Sara Michal Cederbaum
Video: Jerome Vernez
Music: Gai Sherf
Animation and mechanical handling animals: Sylwia Drori, Inbal Yomtovian
With: Amit Drori, Sylwia Drori, Gai Sherf, Jerome Vernez, Inbal Yomtovian
A new interdisciplinary piece by Amit Drori, based on the stage animation of a hand crafted robot and mechanical animals. An imaginary landscape is being created on stage, it reflects a recognized fauna and yet suggests the image of a mythical garden in which life has just begun.
Each animal is crafted in a unique way to create and preserve the essence of ex- pression and sensitivity. It is a complicated machinery based on computerized sequen- cing and live motion control methods, but these are also machines that trigger human emotion and tease the boundaries of iden- tification. The piece is constructed as a series of episodes. Each episode of the performance focuses on a different animal territory. In each episode the manipulation of the objects uses different techniques in order to focus on other qualities and attentions. This is the world of an angry monkey, the sophisticated intimate culture of the elephants, the ecstasy of motion of the bird communities and the symphonic qualities of the ecosystem in which all these territories exist simultaneously in a fragile and myste- rious balance. On stage five performers control the means and facilities of the performance: ob- jects, sound, live video and space. The tension between the image and its creation is exposed and made visible for the audience as an invitation to a debate brought about by the appeal to our different senses, a debate about our fundamental need to reflect on ourselves in imaginary universes and alternative realities.
Executive producer : Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Co-production: CAC Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy;
Culturescapes - Basel
Supported by the Cultural Department of the Israeli Embassy in France, Mamut Pasal Center of Arts, Jerusalem
