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this weekend // ALUMINUM ENTERTAINMENT because those CSI marathons are getting old.
After witnessing this performance, you'll never look at kitchen foil the same.
Unlike a typical theater production, The Aluminum Show offers its audience an interactive visual experience. The show features a group of athletic dancers and performance artists from Israel. They use their talent and skills to manipulate metal puppets, foil sheets, balloons and giant metal shapes. The props literally come off stage, offering a variety of pleasant surprises and inviting the audience to participate in this arrangement of movement and metals. The performers breathe life into this cold, industrial material through stunts, special effects and an original soundtrack.
Ilan Azriel, artistic director of "The Aluminum Show," founded the production in 2003. Azriel was inspired by aluminum because of its natures as both flexible and durable.
The show gives the concept of recycling a new meaning because the props and costumes are all made from aluminum. They have reinvented the traditional uses of aluminum through physical theater and entertainment.
"It brings out imagination. The idea was to transform people to a new world where aluminum and metal comes to life," says David Azulay, founder and president of Teev Events.
a production company that presents an array of Israeli, Jewish and global cultures to America. Azulay says the audience is witness to a strange and imaginary world.
From the Netherlands to Greece, "The Aluminum Show" has toured for seven years all over the globe. You can see the performance at 7:30 p.m., Friday at the Lied Center.
// ANNA KATHAGNARATH
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Reduce, reuse, recycle; 'The Aluminum Show'; a show featuring artists from Israel, relies heavily on the use of metal for props and materials
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