The Cubes Circus | the Train Theater

The Cubes Circus

Age: 
4+
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Language: 
Without words
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קרקס קוביות הצגת תיאטרון חזותי הצגת ילדים בתיאטרון הקרון
קרקס קוביות הצגת תיאטרון חזותי הצגת ילדים בתיאטרון הקרון
קרקס קוביות הצגת תיאטרון חזותי הצגת ילדים בתיאטרון הקרון
קרקס קוביות הצגת תיאטרון חזותי הצגת ילדים בתיאטרון הקרון

How many cubes does the princess wear?
And how would you train a cube dog?
Is the clown's nose round or square?
In the cubes circus everything can happen!

A couple of clowns / dancers succeed to set in motion a wondrous world of cubes. The cubes will be spread out, shrink and divide into different and bizarre animals.

The actors wear cubes and dance with them; they train and cast a spell on them. Sometimes they get eaten (but not for real). They quarrel, make up, fall in love and create a wondrous
and joyful world.

An inventive performance without words combining puppetry, plastic art and Dance Theater.

The show has won many prizes and performs in festivals around the world.

 

Awards

  • Festival Cirkul'art, Bratislava, Slovakia 2016
  • Gyeonggi Puppet Festival, Suwon, South Korea 2016
  • Best Performance at the 2014 Red Festival, Moscow
  • Performance of the Year Interdisciplinary Award for  Puppet and Accessory Design, in the 2012 Stage Award for Children's Performances Competition
  • Best Performance, the 2010 International Puppet Theater Festival, Slovakia

From the reviews

A performance based on the highly imaginative use of blocks that attach to the bodies of two actors/dancers and transform into all sorts of shapes and creatures.  The acting is superb with delightful musical accompaniment, and the result is a light, intelligent and highly enjoyable play that adults will enjoy, too.

Shai Bar-Yaakov, Yediot Aharonot

This show emanates magic in a way we haven’t seen onstage for a long time.  One actor and one actress, working seamlessly together … create an entire world out of cubes ... with a combination of clever lighting effects and impressive hand and body work.  Towards the end of the show, when a ballerina wearing a skirt of cubes twirled sweetly onstage to a dreamy melody, I felt my child melt in my arms, and I melted completely along with her.

Noa Rivlin, Time Out

Lovers of movement and dance can’t help but enjoy the show and be moved and thrilled by this bit of dance theater with no words, but plenty of blocks. The performance conveys the unique beauty of puppet theater, the integration and collaboration between the puppets’ and accessories’ creator on the one hand, and the actors/operators on the other.  The fantastic acting and movement of the actors/dancers, their sounds and facial expressions, bring the cubes to life...  The synchronous movement between the live characters and the cubes is so perfect, it’s hard to know which came first – actor or cube, dancer or box.

Nurit Assayag, Achbar Ha’Ir Online

Participation in the following festivals:

  • Shenzhen, China 2018
  • Festival Cirkul'art, Bratislava, Slovakia 2016
  • Gyeonggi Puppet Festival, Suwon, South Korea 2016
  • הפסטיבל הבינלאומי לתיאטרון בובות ירושלים
  • פסטיבל חיפה הבינלאומי להצגות ילדים
  • Visiting Arlekin, Intern. Festival of Puppet Theatres, Omsk, Russia 2015
  • Playground Israel Festival in Berlin, Germany 2015
  • Red Mood Intern. Puppet Festival of Small Forms, Moscow, Russia 2014
  • Ishara Puppet Festival, New Delhi, India 2013
  • International Festival of Puppetry Art, Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2012
  • International Puppet - Mime Festival of Kilkis, Greece 2012
  • Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey, 2011
  • Malta Festival Poland 2011
  • The Naive Theatre Liberec, Festival MATEŘINKA 2011
  • Festival BÁBKARSKÁ BYSTRICA 2010, Slovakia (winner of first prize in the children shows section) Golem Theater Jewish kids’ theater 
  • Golem Theater Jewish kids’ theater festival Budapest, Hungary, 2010  
Credits

Concept and Design: 
Galia Levy-Grad
Acting:
Nir LandaRotem Goldenberg
Direction: 
Galia Levy-Grad, Marit Ben-Israel
Artistic Language and Script Development: Marit Ben-Israel
Music: Avi Benjamin
Lighting Design: Dov Mielnik
Production: The Train Theater

Support

National Lottery Council for the Arts