If you have ever seen a show at Tmuna Theater, chances are you have seen Matan Preminger’s work. As one of the most prominent lighting designers in the theater/dance/performance world, Matan has been illuminating stages for over a decade. Comfortable both behind the scenes and on stage, Preminger can be found most nights in the control booth of one of many theaters he works in, most often Tmuna. Beyond his role as an actor, lighting technician and designer, Preminger has created three staged works that brought the often-invisible world of lighting technicians and designers into the center of the stage. Read more
I’m about to use a word that parenting experts tend to hate: Etai’s Castle is simply… fun. Fun in the very best, most classic sense of the word. Like strawberry ice cream with sprinkles on a summer day.Read more
The pace of the work is relentless, transitioning from one rhythm to another, one pattern to the next, one dancer leading switched out for another. The dancers show no signs of listening for cues. Instead, they appear telepathically connected, pivoting and exchanging material with uncanny precision. Improvisational impulses are woven into a tightly organized, ever-shifting and unpredictable structure.Read more
Both works powerfully express the emotions we’ve all been carrying through this past month and more: anxiety, terror, helplessness, the attempt to survive inside all this darkness.Read more
Popalinda in the Kingdom of Imagination is a dance-theater work for children, but first and foremost it is a work of the body. Adi Eytan as Popa and Shachar Dolinsky as Roberto, inspired by Mary Poppins and Bert (a wink also to the parents’ generation), create movement work that both children and adults can enjoy.Read more
Each costume piece removed reveals not only Sirkis’ body but a transformation. A new character. A reference. A provocation. A version of how a body might be read.
She is not undressing.
She is multiplying.Read more
Throughout the work, the four performers repeatedly toy with the idea of transmuting thoughts into language; of expressing dance with words and vice versa; of making their inner and private dialects not only heard but understood by others — be it a dancer interpreting the choreographer’s score, a dancer reacting to a fellow dancer on stage or a dancer communicating her sensations and thoughts with the audience through words or movements.
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First Things by Michael Getman, performed with virtuosity by Ariel Gelbart, is a fascinating, deep, and multi-layered work. Fragments of textual and musical information meet a distilled choreography, and together they ask the most fundamental question: what is the human experience?Read more
In a sense, this opening image encapsulates the work as a whole, with both its strengths and its shortcomings: NONA creates a highly precise and aesthetically refined world, within which an entire ensemble operates, yet in too many moments leans on a single standout soloist.Read more
Tula Ben Ari, a singer of Yemenite and Polish descent, decided to step into the very large shoes of Ofra Haza and did so with great success in this performance.
She did not try to imitate Ofra Haza’s singing. Her voice was deep, strong, present, enveloping the entire space with its power and resonating into the fibers of the soul.Read more