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ISRAEL FESTIVAL - JERUSALEM 2003: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PRODUCTIONS OF ISRAELI PERFORMANCES The Israel Festival, which will take place this year between May 29 and June 6, will focus on Israeli artists. In light of the security situation, the directors decided to forgo an international program this year, and the festival is made up primarily of special multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, one-time performances. The festival, which will take place in the courtyard of the Jerusalem Theatre, the Sultan's Pool, and Binyanei Ha'Ooma, will express personal, cultural and political statements by the artists. The Zik group will open the festival with "Music" - a performance that combines sculpture, visual effects, and music - in conjunction with the Ra'anana symphony orchestra, which will perform live music. As in the other events, the audience will be active participants. In its Israeli premiere, Akko's Theatre Center will perform "Yisraela Shlomo" which was first performed at the Munich, Berlin, and Dusseldorf festivals in Germany and at the Avignon festival in France. The stage director Muni Yosef creates confrontations with the participants and performers. This show exposes Israeli society in 2003, as well as the relationship between audience, art, and artists. The Hebrew-Arab Theatre from Jaffa will perform a special three-part performance: "Memory," which is based on two stories: "The Story of the Wrinkled Sheikh " and "Did You Kill Anyone There?" In the second part of the evening, the play "Fathers and Daughters in the Bathhouse" will be performed. Three actresses meet in the bathhouse and imagine a meeting with their fathers, who are acted out by the daughters themselves. The evening will conclude with a Hebrew- Arab song performance by the entire choir. This is the first time that this theatre will perform for a Jerusalem audience. A series of concerts dedicated to classical romantic music from Germany, Austria and Russia will be held in Ein Kerem. Israeli performers will play Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, and others. The festival will conclude at the Sultan's Pool with "The Songs of Leah Goldberg"; the poetess's songs will be performed by well-known artists. The Israel Festival, in conjunction with the Society for the Protection of Nature, is also sponsoring tours of three Jerusalem courtyards -- Sergei, Anna Ticho House, and Mizkeret Moshe, which will conclude with concerts. Several photo and art exhibitions will be held in the courtyard of the Jerusalem Theatre, including, "Inspired by Hanoch Levin," an exhibit by 16 leading Israeli artists. The festival is collaboration with the drawing and painting workshop in the "Marathon of Painting Jerusalem Panoramas," an international project headed by American artist Bill Reilly and Israeli artist Yisrael Hirschberg.
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