Flamenco fire The 21st annual Flamenco Days Festival will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv from March 19 to 21. The three-day program includes performers from here and abroad, who will present dance shows and workshops. One of the bill toppers at this year's festival is internationally renowned Spanish dancer Concha Jareño, who will star in the main show, El Baul de los Flamencos (Flamenco Toolbox), which will be performed each evening. Jareño will also present a master class on March 20 at 10 a.m. The following day at 12:30 p.m., the large-scale An Israeli Flamenco Morning slot will feature some of our best young talent in the field. There will be plenty of homegrown professionals on show as well, such as the Jerusalem- based Remangar company, which will present its Desahogar production. And the Ars-Poetica show for the whole family will take place on March 21 at 5 p.m. For tickets and more information: (03) 510-5656 and www.suzannedellal.org.il Art complex The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art is running several intriguing complex exhibitions, which include group and oneman shows. “Tiebreak,” which pertains to the latter category, curated by Sally Haftel Naveh, incorporates sculptural environments of both a wild and domesticated nature, with images taken from the world of competitive sports. The iconography included in the exhibition's three installations offers a narrative sequence of episodes suggestive of an alternative, deceptive reality which encompasses the everyday elements but also aspects of the fantastic and unexpected. Uriel Miron's exhibition “Playing for Time” features three projects created in recent years. Spider House includes etchings that illustrate poems by Dan Pagis, while Unraveling is a sculptural installation placed inside a greenhouse, where huge white sculptures marry elements of painting and sculpture, fusing the organic with the artificial. The exhibition also includes a video project created by USborn Anthony Aziz and Peruvian- born Sammy Cucher called In Some Country under a Sun and Some Clouds. The work proffers a disturbing, symbolic picture of reality which touches on extreme situations of uprooting, abandonment, war, foreignness and a lack of belonging. Dancers are shown in spectacular panoramic Judean Desert landscapes, each moving according to his or her own enigmatic, surreal set of rules. The soundtrack infuses the work with a range of cultural associations. Juxtaposing fantasy and reality, the video becomes an image that is timeless and topical, local and global. For more information: (09) 955- 1011 and www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/ Composers saluted at Kfar Blum The next musical weekend at the Pastoral Hotel at Kfar Blum, which will take place from March 19 to 21, will laud some of the works written by iconic Israeli composers David Zehavi, Sasha Argov and Ya'akov Hollander. Zehavi's songs will be performed by his third wife, Dafna Zehavi, and her son Hillel Zehavi. The Melodies of Granddad David Zehavi program will also include stories about Zehavi's life, from his childhood in Little Tel Aviv to his later years on Kibbutz Na'an. The Zehavi evening will be emceed by his biographer, Dr. Moti Zeira. Sasha Argov is another of our celebrated composers, and the Beresheet show will present some of his most popular numbers and mark the centenary of his birth. A production devoted to the work of Ya'akov Hollander, who died last year at 86, will feature a string of hits, such as “Ahavticha,” “Tnu Lanu Yad Venelech” and “Shir Le'erev Hahag.” They will be performed by Ohad Shragai, Hanni Livneh and the Adam Le'adam Choir. For more information: (04) 683- 6611 and www.kfarblum-hotel.co.il Life after death The Jaffa Theater will put on a performance of Hayei Hametim (The Life of the Dead), based on a poem of the same name by Hanoch Levin. The play tells the story of a recently deceased man and what he endures as he passes into the world of the dead – successes and failures, illusion and discovery. The play is directed by Noa Wagner with music by Nadav Vikenski. The cast includes Meital Ner, Roni Einav, Michal Cherni, Omri Raveh and Ma'ayan Rahamim. March 21 at 9 p.m. For tickets and more information: (03) 518- 5563 and www.arab-hebrew-theatre.org.il/
JOSE PORCEL and Sylvia Doran will step lightly on the stage of the Suzanne Dellal Center in their Flamenco show.