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Cultural events to look out for.

By BARRY DAVIS
Alon Olearchik (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Alon Olearchik
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Sounds good
The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon is hosting an intriguing exhibition which goes by the name of “Composition for Two Floors and a Corridor.”
The show was created by Amnon Wolman, as a site-specific work.
Wolman, a professor of music and a composer of experimental music for over 30 years, incorporated elements previously used in sound laboratories and also created new sonic items for the exhibition. The work features a motley array of artifacts, such as tallitot, army uniforms, planks of wood, handcuffs and books.
“Composition for Two Floors and a Corridor” is divided into two sections, with parts displayed on two floors. One level houses a densely visual sound-producing collection, while the upper section is visually sparse but sonically saturated.
On the lower level, for example, the Sound-Architecture Book Series comprises books on architecture and art placed on loudspeakers; Wolman drilled holes in the books through which the sound from the speakers can be heard. The audio content of this item consists of recordings of excerpts taken from the books, in addition to the artist’s personal take on them.
The Sound Tallitot Series features six tallitot draped around loudspeakers. In order to be able to hear the sound coming out of the speakers, visitors have to wrap themselves in the prayer shawls.
“Composition for Two Floors and a Corridor” closes on June 27.
For more information: (03) 556- 8792 and www.digitalartlab.co.il
Notzar’s Abandoned Property
The Bat Yam-based Notzar Theater company will put on performances of Abandoned Property by Shulamit Lapid, on March 25 and 31 (both 8:30 p.m.).
The play tells the tale of three female characters, a single mother and her two adolescent daughters. The three of them are faced with a life-changing situation, whereby their crumbling abode is about to be demolished to make way for a new road. While one daughter prepares for the move, her sister and mother – whose husband abandoned her – indulge in a spot of escapism.
In addition to the events taking place and retold on the stage, the subtext addresses the painful and politically contentious issue of people in varying circumstances having to leave their home, which is subsequently taken over by new tenants from a different cultural and ethnic group. In Hebrew.
Abandoned Property is directed by Shifra Milstein, and the cast features Yael Branfeld, Irit Sopran and Avia Brosh.
For tickets: (03) 635-0772
 Dancing in the South
The fourth annual Arava Dance Festival will take place at Sapir from March 25 to 27. This year’s program includes performances, workshops and activities for the entire family.
The festival will open with two new works: Mauve, by choreographer and Gaga artist Stefan Peri; and an excerpt from I Capuleti e i Montecchi – The National Opera, created by Idan Cohen, which is based on the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with music taken from the opera by early 19th-century composer Vincenzo Bellini. The performance will also feature the Arava Choir.
The festival performance program will close with The Birth of the Phoenix by the Vertigo Dance Company, based on an ecological theme, and there will also be an exhibition of video art by American artist Michele Fletcher, and a dance workshop given by Galit Liss.
For tickets and more information: (08) 659-2260
Tea for Two
Veteran rock-pop singer and bass player Alon Olearchik will team up with jazz saxophonist Eli Degibri for a launch performance of material from their new album, Tea for Two, at the Enav Center in Tel Aviv on March 23 (9 p.m.).
The album is based on Hebrew translations – by Olearchik – of numbers taken from the American Songbook, including such jazz standards as “All of Me” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” Degibri is responsible for music production.
Olearchik and Degibri will be joined on the stage by Ofer Ganor on guitar, Gadi Lehavi on piano, double-bass player Barak Mori, drummer Ofri Nehemia and cellist Yael Shapira, with Julia Klein and Leah Gedaiev on violins.
For tickets and more information: *9080 and www.zappa-club.co.il/