STRIKE! is a luscious & innovative Electronic Opera, based on the classical play Lysistrata by

Aristophanes. Set in TLVillage, a partially imagined city, STRIKE! opens as Lizzy unites the women of her war-torn region by calling for a sex strike, which ignites a full blown battle of the sexes.

 

STRIKE! is a live, evening-length spectacle of music and visuals that incorporates a wide range

of genres in electronic music and incorporates sculpture, projection and light design.

While the rhythm and melody tell a heroic story of female power, the animation, video and mapping, light design and stage installations offer an outrageous and cohesive display.

STRIKE! embraces elements from various disciplines, such as night life, rock & pop, classical art (through a modern interpretation), urban energy, fashion and many more.

 

It is a full-bodied, sensorial experience performed by Rona Geffen and Ann Streichman, with Video & Mapping by Vj Kalma, video projection design by Danna Grace Windsor, sculpture by Yoav Admoni and Layla Klinger, and light design by Yochai Matos. This unique, feminist and unapologetic work delivers a strong message of peace and equality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STRIKE! live show gathers an ensemble of talented cutting edge artists from different disciplines:

 

DANNA GRACE WINDSOR - ANIMATION & VIDEO
Danna Grace Windsor is a NY based, Israeli born graphic artist. She works with video, classical animation and highly detailed illustration methods to convey her ideas ranging from social matters to women's sexuality.
www.Dannagracewindsor.tumblr.com

 

 

Elizabeth Laplace - VJ & MAPPING

Laplace explores spaces and experiments with objects using senses to reach an understanding of their function and relationship to herself and others. Solo exhibition CONTOURS: A Collection of Nature Inspired Ceramic Sculpture (2012). Received a Bachelors of Arts in both Biology and Studio Art from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA (2012). Masters of Fine Art in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA (2015). Presented in multiple group shows, among them Contemporary Vessel, Detroit, MI, USA, (2014), Mercedes-Benz Art Loan group shows at their corporate offices in Farmington Hills, MI, USA (2014/2015), Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Exhibition and Call for Chelsea: (Re) Imagining Art’s Aura in the Age of Turbo-Capitalism, at Galleria Ca’ d’O’ro, New York City, NY, USA (2015). Most recently, she held a solo show at Larry, Berlin, Germany on June 29th, 2016 and has been published in the magazine FrequenZine released in Berlin on July 2016. Is currently residing at artist residency, GlogauAIR Berlin. Since arriving in Berlin, Laplace has continues to explore light, technology, and vibrations in her work.

www.elizabethlaplace.com

 

 

YOCHAI MATOS - LIGHT DESIGN
Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Graduated Bezalel in 2004. His work deals with the public space as a property, taking place in both fields; on the streets and inside the established Art world - searching the cross points between the two disciplines.

Matos uses in his works basic and simple images derived from the Modern Culture; images which already contain layers of replication and recycling. By dealing with pop and kitsch icons Matos wishes to touch once again the romantic, authentic and lost emotions, suggesting a simple and comforting way of confronting the contemporary disease of emotional disability.

Matos has exhibited solo shows and has attended in group shows in USA, Latin America, Europe and Japan.

www.yochaimatos.com

 

 

YOAV ADMONI - STAGE DESIGN:
A multi-disciplinary artist working mainly with Sculpture and Performance with emphasis on public space. Admoni’s works travels between site-responsive, socio-political conceptual performance and between sculptures and installations, often involving an image of Nature in its imitation or in its fusion with a domestic object. Admoni's work investigates the border line between the physical space and the socio-political space existing in the Landscape, focusing on areas of conflict, trying to reveal the production of Nature in its various manifestations. His works travels between site-responsive, socio-political conceptual performance and between sculptures and installations that often involve an image of Nature, in its imitation or in its fusion with a domestic object. Admoni's work investigates the border line between the physical space and the socio-political space existing in the Landscape, focusing on spaces of conflict, trying to reveal the production of Nature in its various manifestations

www.yoavadmoni.com

 

 

DARYA KRASNOVA - COSTUME DESIGN 

Darya Krasnova, fashion designer, constructor and illustrator, creator

of the Couture Lingerie label Si Señor.

In love with costume design colors and music.

Worked with choreographs, stylists and brides.
www.vimeo.com/113008759

 

 

LAYLA KLINGER - STAGE & LIGHT DESIGN

Queer textile queen, specializes in knitting. Fantasizes with embroidery.

Klinger works with handmade textile and crafts researching manipulation of women professions in modern and queer contexts. In her work she combines between soft materials, traditional techniques and images of objects that exceed from the permissible and desirable spectrum.

www.instagram.com/violetmenace
 

 

STRIKE! & TUBY DIKMAN - DIRECTION 

Rakhel Zinder and Tuby Dikman are partners in life who work and create together since 2001. They both studied Theatre Arts at the Tel Aviv University and graduated with honor. They co-founded “Culture Lab” in Israel, a unique, alternative avant garde theatre where they also positioned as artistic directors. “Culture Lab” was funded by Israel’s ministry of culture and Mifal HaPayis (the national lottery of Israel).
Zinder and Dikman have created 3 major pieces together and many other theatre productions separately that were raved and awarded. Between the years 2009 and 2012 Dikman held a senior position in the artistic committee of Akko Festival, the biggest and most important alternative festival for theatre in Israel. Dikman was also a lecturer at the Haifa university theatre department (2006-2008) and a senior lecturer at other theatre forms and institutions. Zinder worked as a director with groups of women and people with special needs.
The two are very much appraised and significant fringe creators in the Israeli fringe theatres.