The curator and team-members of the Israeli exposition have taken the theme of MUSIC as their inspiration. The design team for PQ 2015 decided to create a video-art installation. We want to invite our visitors to sit comfortably in our specially designed space and enjoy a few moments of peace and relaxation.
Sit back and watch three different video art films, each of them 10 minutes long and screened simultaneously. The films will present up to fifteen productions, each designed by a different Israeli designer, for mainly Israeli plays, musicals and operas.
All performance designs presented have a strong musical influence.
This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce the special sound and music of Israel and their visualization.
All audiences will be given earphones with three channels, allowing them to switch between the three different films or watch all three at the same time.
Welcome and enjoy.
The Israeli exposition is a collaboration between the Israeli Association of Stage Designers, the Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama, Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- רוני תורן (Roni Toren)
* 30.11.1954, Jerusaleo
Specialization: journalist, teacher, set designer, costume designer, Started as a T.V. & Radio presenter /editor of documentary, art and music programs Hosted and presented T.V, Litrature meetings with writers.
Education: Art and Theatre Studies in Paris, France (Université de Vincenne-Paris 8 and Beaux Arts). Graduate of the Faculty of Arts - Theatre Department at Tel Aviv University
Collaboration with theatres: The New Israeli Opera /National Theatre Habima, Israel/The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv/Israel / The Cha'an Theatre Jerusalem, Israel /The Belgrade Theatre,Coventy,England /The "X" Theatre ,Tokyo,Japan /Bayerische Staatsoper - Munich, Germany /English National Opera - London, United Kingdom /Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Germany /De Vlaamse Opera - Belgium /Opera de Monte Carlo/The Santa Fe Opera, USA.
Teaching activities: Professor of Stage Design at the University of Tel-Aviv, 1999-2006
Participation in other important exhibitions: Winner of the silver medal at WSD 2005
Continuing collaboration with directors: Dr. Jonathan Miller, David Alden , Hanoch Levin, Hanan Snir, Micah Lewinsohn
Awards: Silver Medal at the 2005 WSD Toronto for Set Design - Toronto, Canada
Additional information: He started out as a TV and radio presenter and editor of documentary, art and music programs. He started his career as a theatre designer in Israel, designing sets and costumes for many productions, and later worked
on opera productions in Europe.
Exhibiting works
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Yigal Mosinzon, Joel Silberg, Amos Ettinger, Haim Hefer: (Kazablan),
Cameri Theatre
(Cameri Theatre),
2014, Director: režie/director: Tzadi Zarfati, skladatel/composer: Dov Zelzer, hudba/music: Yossi Ben Nun
, kostýmy/costume design: Ofra Konfino, světelný design/lighting design: Amir Brener ; Identification of exhibit:
video ;
Comments: An Israeli musical. Set in the 1950s, the residents of a rundown neighborhood in Jaffa, new immigrants from different ethnic communities, rise up against the authorities’ decision to tear down the neighborhood. Kazablan, a young man of Moroccan extraction, is in love with Rachel, the daughter of Feldman, the Ashkenazi head of the neighborhood.
- Uri Onn
Specialization: architect, set designer, scenographer
Education: Graduated from the Technion (architecture)
Collaboration with theatres: Jaffa Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Igal Azrati
Additional information: Graduated from the Technion (architecture) and works as a stage designer for the Arab-Hebrew Jaffa Theatre.
Exhibiting works
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Selim Nassib, Igal Ezraty, Eden Uliel: (Oum Kulthoum ),
Theatron Ivri-Arvi Yaffo
(Arab-Hebrew Theatre Jaffa),
2014, Director: režie/director: Igal Ezraty; hudební režie & Oud/ music direction & Oud: Ala Abu Amara; podle nejznámějších písní Oum Kulthoum /based on all the famous songs of Oum Kulthoum , kostýmy/costume design: Shimoon Dahan; světelný design/lighting design: Nadav Barnea; video: Nimrod Zin
; Identification of exhibit:
video ;
Comments: Oum Kulthoum. Based on the novel 'Oum' by Selim Nassib
The life story of the most famous and well-loved Egyptian female singer ever. She was also very involved politically. The main role is played by well-known Israeli singer Galit Giat, who sings all the songs in the original language, despite not speaking Arabic.
- Niv Manor
* 1972
Specialization: set designer
Education: MFA from Tel Aviv University
Collaboration with theatres: Habima Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Shay Pitovsky,
Additional information: Set designer. Has designed many sets for the theatre and opera, including: 'The Magic Flute', 'La Cenerentola' (The Israeli Opera), 'God Waits at the Station', 'The Oath' (Habima Theater); 'The Orchard', 'Mother of Him' (Beit Lessin) and 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
Exhibiting works
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Shay Pitovsky: השבועה (The Oath),
Habima Theatre
2013, Director: Director: Shay Pitovsky
Music: Alberto Shwartz, kostýmy/costumes: Natasha Tuchman Poluak, světelný design/lighting design: Ziv Voloshin ;
Comments: 'The Oath' is based on a medieval Jewish tale. Just before his death an important sea merchant makes his son swear that he will never go to sea. However, a year later he finds himself with a suitcase in his hand and on his way to the sea, leaving his wife and son behind. Thus begins a journey. This is a story of passion, on the walls and the great sea which is in all of us.
- אלכסנדר ליסיאנסקי (Alexander Lisiyanski)
Specialization: teacher, set designer, scenographer
Education: Architect (MA, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Voronezh)
Collaboration with theatres: Cameri Theatre, Gesher Theatre (Israel), M. Rozovsky Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: M. Lurye, M.Rozovsky,U.Pevzner
Additional information: Set designer in Israel and Russia.
- Frida Shoham
* 1960
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: MA from Tel Aviv University
Teaching activities: Head of Stage Design at Seminar Hakibutsim.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Itzik Veingarten
Additional information: Participated in PQ 1991.
Exhibiting works
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Dan Almagor : איש חסיד היה (Only fools are sad),
Haifa Theatre and Haifa Municipal Theatre
2012, Director: Itzik Vinegarten, aranžmá/arrangements: Ori Vidislavsky, kostýmy/costume: Shany Tur; světelný design/lighting design: Meir Alon ; Identification of exhibit:
video ;
Comments: A collection of new arrangements of Jewish and traditional Hasidic tales and songs. First brought to stage in the 1960s and has enjoyed considerable popularity since. Now presented in an even more modern arrangement.
- Shani Tur
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: Freelance designer. Designs set and costumes for all theatres, chiefly at Habima.
Exhibiting works
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Shahar Pinkas: אדם לא מת סתם (A Man Does Not Die in Vain),
Habima National Theatre
2013, Director: režie/director: Shir Goldberg; hudba/music: Daniel Solomon, kostýmy/costume design: Natasha Tukhman Poliak, světelný design/lighting design: Roni Cohen
; Identification of exhibit:
video ;
Comments: Arrangement of four short stories by Deborah Barone. The play takes place in a poor neighborhood of a remote small town in White Russia. The production won the most awards at the 2013 Israeli Theatre Awards: Shahar Pinkas for Playwriting, Shani Tur for Best Set Design and Daniel Salomon for Best Music for Theatre.
- Anat Messner
Haifa
Specialization: actor, teacher, set designer, costume designer, scenographer, curator
Education: Central School of Art and Design, London
Teaching activities: Over twenty years' experience teaching stage and costume design
Participation in other important exhibitions: Curator of a large retrospective exhibition on design in Israeli plays from 1960-2014
Additional information: Freelance since 1978. Messner has produced designs for over 200 shows and performances, mostly for large, small and fringe theatres in Israel, as well as for many children's theatre productions. She has won several awards in this field. She is an active member of Assitej Israel. Curator for PQ.
- Neta Haker
Specialization: teacher, set designer, costume designer, scenographer
Education: Tel Aviv University
Collaboration with theatres: Habima, Cameri Theatre, Beer-Sheva, Haifa
- Bambi Friedman
* 1969
Specialization: teacher, set designer, lighting designer, studied Computer Design at “Chelsea college of Art & Design” – London
Education: MFA degrees in Stage Design Studies from the Department of Theatre Arts, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Teaching activities: Teaches at Tel Aviv University
Additional information: He has designed stage and lighting for a large number of productions, as well as sets for television productions. He runs a design studio for commercial spaces, exhibitions and events.
- Lily Ben Nachshon
* 1963
Specialization: set designer, scenographer
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Collaboration with theatres: Habima, Cameri, Beit-Lessin
Teaching activities: Theatre design at Tel Aviv Kibbutzim College, Israel
Additional information: Stage designer for theatre and dance. Designs (sets and, for some productions, costumes too) for several theatres in Israel.
- Dana Tsarfaty
* 1970
Specialization: teacher, set designer, costume designer, scenographer
Education: MA, Tel Aviv University, Department of Theatre Art
Teaching activities: Teaching on the Stage Design Program at the School of Performing Arts, Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv.
Additional information: She has designed numerous productions for all the leading theatres in Israel, including the Israeli Opera, Habima National Theatre and the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv.
- Svetlana Berger
Ukraine
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Collaboration with theatres: Khan Theatre, Beersheba
Additional information: Works for all theatres in Israel.
- Natasha Tuchman-Poliak
* 1978
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Collaboration with theatres: Habima Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Shay Pitovsky' Shir Goldberg.
Additional information: Graduated with excellence from the MFA Stage Design Program at the Department of Theatre Arts, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (2005) and received the department’s Scholarship for Notable Achievements.
- Yoav Cohen
Specialization: director, visual artist, Video Art creator
Education: Sam Spiegel School of Film and TV, Jerusalem. Bezalel School of Art New Media and Film
Collaboration with theatres: Cameri, Habima and Beit Leisin Theatres, Israel and Kiel Schauspielhaus, Germany
Additional information: Many video-art works for theatre. Recent works: 'Hair', 'Electra', 'The Strange Story of the Dog', 'The Visit', 'The House of Bernarda Alba', and more.
- Maor Zabar
* 1978, Haifa
Specialization: teacher, costume designer, fashion designer, Milliner
Education: BD in Fashion & Costume design at Shenkar College of Design
Collaboration with theatres: Habima Theatre, Cameri Theatre and Hakhan, Jerusalem
Teaching activities: Computerized Illustration at Shenkar College, Millinery Design at own studio.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Ilan Ronen, Shir Goldberg, Micki Gurevitch, Moor Zaguri
Additional information: Works with all theatres in Israel. Winner of Israeli Theatre Award for Best Costume Design in 2013 for 'La Calandria Hakhan'. Major works: 'The Merchant of Venice', Habima, 2012, 'Romeo and Juliet', Beersheba, 2015.
- Eran Atzmon
* 1981
Specialization: set designer
Education: Stage Design and Theatre Studies at Seminar Hakibbutzim
Collaboration with theatres: Habima, Cameri, Beit Lessin, Beer Sheva and Haifa
Continuing collaboration with directors: Gilad Kimchi
Additional information: Set designer since 2004. Has designed for all major theatres in Israel, including musicals, classical and modern theatre.
