Israel’s Cube Circus to take on Delhi with song and dance routine for Indian stage
A troupe of performers from Israel, who employ Japanese origami style, are set to display their extravagant puppetry prowess accompanied with a song and dance routine, to entertain Indian audience here.
The Train Theatre group from Jerusalem are presenting The Cubes Circus during the ongoing Ishara Puppet Festival, which the troupe is also marking as the 150th show since the inception of its presentation over four years ago.
Performers don and use paper folded origami style into cube like structures throughout the puppet show while enacting stories and miming characters, which includes animals, plants and humans.
‘The first scene you see on stage is the cube. The cube becomes all the elements in the entire show. Cube circus is the relation between the very basic form of the three dimensional form getting alive, becoming vivid characters or living characters. In circus there are clowns to perform this, says Dov Meilnik, stage designer and tour manager of the troupe.
With no text and no language, the show relies on language of object and body and the relationship between human beings
‘The concept of Cube Circus is absolutely Israeli but based on the centuries old origami which originated in Japan,’ says Meilnik.
Galia Levy-Grad, the director of the show evolved the concept in Israel four years ago. Incidentally, the first shows of the troupe were performed inside a train wagon.
Rerana Loten Ophir and Nir Eliyahu Landa (Sherving) are the performers who manipulations to be staged before audience.
‘It's a total manipulation. The cube is put on stage and opened. It will be one box actually. It can be then changed as a snake and immediately to a horse, a bird and anything else.
It is actually like an architectural work in the way of building different elements,’ says Rerana Loten Ophir who equates the show to a circus.
‘The form of the play can be related to a circus. it can also be interpreted as drama because we the performers are the clowns of the drama,’ he says. The shows by Train Theatre are not based on any epic or fairy tale, it is open to the interpretation of the audience, especially children.
The repertoire has shows scheduled in the India Habitat Centre and in Gurgaon before they head over to Chandigarh.
The Train Theatre group from Jerusalem are presenting The Cubes Circus during the ongoing Ishara Puppet Festival, which the troupe is also marking as the 150th show since the inception of its presentation over four years ago.
Performers don and use paper folded origami style into cube like structures throughout the puppet show while enacting stories and miming characters, which includes animals, plants and humans.
‘The first scene you see on stage is the cube. The cube becomes all the elements in the entire show. Cube circus is the relation between the very basic form of the three dimensional form getting alive, becoming vivid characters or living characters. In circus there are clowns to perform this, says Dov Meilnik, stage designer and tour manager of the troupe.
With no text and no language, the show relies on language of object and body and the relationship between human beings
‘The concept of Cube Circus is absolutely Israeli but based on the centuries old origami which originated in Japan,’ says Meilnik.
Galia Levy-Grad, the director of the show evolved the concept in Israel four years ago. Incidentally, the first shows of the troupe were performed inside a train wagon.
Rerana Loten Ophir and Nir Eliyahu Landa (Sherving) are the performers who manipulations to be staged before audience.
‘It's a total manipulation. The cube is put on stage and opened. It will be one box actually. It can be then changed as a snake and immediately to a horse, a bird and anything else.
It is actually like an architectural work in the way of building different elements,’ says Rerana Loten Ophir who equates the show to a circus.
‘The form of the play can be related to a circus. it can also be interpreted as drama because we the performers are the clowns of the drama,’ he says. The shows by Train Theatre are not based on any epic or fairy tale, it is open to the interpretation of the audience, especially children.
The repertoire has shows scheduled in the India Habitat Centre and in Gurgaon before they head over to Chandigarh.