In Hungarian. / We recommend the programme above age 7.
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION
On 24 October Attila Nemes, program adviser at Kitchen Budapest, will be talking with Amit Drori, the director, after the performance (in English with Hungarian translation).
An 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.
“Amit Drori’s Savanna looks like a mechanical Eden. Enchanting robot creatures nose the air and investigate the stage: a trundling tortoise, a springbok made of springs. There are “ohhhs” of wonder and delight as each new animal emerges. […] Drori’s work starts with a stage full of crates and boxes. In voiceover, he tells the story of his mother’s piano, an old instrument that required intense maintenance. The young Drori resented the way it took his mother’s time, but was awed by the sight of its inner workings, like the skeleton of an elephant or a whale. When the piano finally became unfixable, he tried to build a creature from its strings and hammers. Savanna, A Possible Landscape is the story of that battle; it’s a landscape of memory and loss as well as a paradise of automata. Like the animals, designed by Drori and Noam Dover, it’s both bewitching and matter-of-fact.” (The Independent)
“The robotic animals are handcrafted objects, technological yet constructed as very personal sculptures. The clear line that divides nature and civilization is breaking down here, in the attempt to treat the machine as a sensitive creature. Unlike the industrial world, where machines are made for functional use, the only function of these robots is to reflect human emotions and imagination.” (Amit Drori)
Conceived and directed by Amit Drori
Design by Noam Dover, Amit Drori
Projections by Michal Sara Cederbaum
Video design by Jérôme Vernez
Music by Gai Sherf
Animation and programming by Amit Drori, Sylwia Drori, Inbal Yomtovian
Outside view by Talia Beck
Performed by Amit Drori, Laila Bettermann, Gai Sherf, Jérôme Vernez, Li Lorian
Produced by Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Co-produced by Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy and Culturescapes, Basel
With the support of Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art Centre, Jerusalem
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION
On 24 October Attila Nemes, program adviser at Kitchen Budapest, will be talking with Amit Drori, the director, after the performance (in English with Hungarian translation).
An 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.
“Amit Drori’s Savanna looks like a mechanical Eden. Enchanting robot creatures nose the air and investigate the stage: a trundling tortoise, a springbok made of springs. There are “ohhhs” of wonder and delight as each new animal emerges. […] Drori’s work starts with a stage full of crates and boxes. In voiceover, he tells the story of his mother’s piano, an old instrument that required intense maintenance. The young Drori resented the way it took his mother’s time, but was awed by the sight of its inner workings, like the skeleton of an elephant or a whale. When the piano finally became unfixable, he tried to build a creature from its strings and hammers. Savanna, A Possible Landscape is the story of that battle; it’s a landscape of memory and loss as well as a paradise of automata. Like the animals, designed by Drori and Noam Dover, it’s both bewitching and matter-of-fact.” (The Independent)
“The robotic animals are handcrafted objects, technological yet constructed as very personal sculptures. The clear line that divides nature and civilization is breaking down here, in the attempt to treat the machine as a sensitive creature. Unlike the industrial world, where machines are made for functional use, the only function of these robots is to reflect human emotions and imagination.” (Amit Drori)
Conceived and directed by Amit Drori
Design by Noam Dover, Amit Drori
Projections by Michal Sara Cederbaum
Video design by Jérôme Vernez
Music by Gai Sherf
Animation and programming by Amit Drori, Sylwia Drori, Inbal Yomtovian
Outside view by Talia Beck
Performed by Amit Drori, Laila Bettermann, Gai Sherf, Jérôme Vernez, Li Lorian
Produced by Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Co-produced by Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy and Culturescapes, Basel
With the support of Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art Centre, Jerusalem
Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art Centre, Jerusalem
