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Music The Red Sea Guitar Festival | Eilat For three whole days, the 6 th edition of the Red Sea Guitar Festival will light up Eilat with a bonanza of live shows by some of Israel’s biggest musical artists. Among the A-listers on the roster are Aviv Geffen, Eviatar Banai, Danny Sanderson, Lola Marsh, Ninet Tayeb, and more. After the shows, midnight jams will take place at the Jasper 08 cocktail bar at the Isrotel Agamim Hotel until the small hours of the night. Isrotel, the festival’s official partner, offers package deals that include a hotel stay and tickets and passes to the shows. March 20-22, redseaguitarfestival.co.il

Exhibition “If I were a body” | The Petach Tikva Museum of Art The Petach Tikva Museum of Art has opened the season with six new exhibitions. The main one is a group exhibition entitled “If I were a body” on the theme of the fragility of the human form and its physicality within the world - all at once a body that is fragmentary and whole, public and private, present in the here and now, but also inhabited by the memory of things past. The exhibition presents drawings, installations, sculptures, and video art by a variety of artists including Igael Tumarkin, Sigalit Landau, Alex Kremer and Merav Maroody. Sculptor Ofer Lalush’s monumental sculptures from his “Atalya” series, presented here for the first time in Israel in its entirety, will be installed outside the museum. Considered the pinnacle of Lalush’s artistic output of the last ten years, the sculpted figures possess a fascinating everyman quality that is all at once archaic and futuristic. (Curator: Irena Gordon). Until June 28 th , petachtikvamuseum.com Artwork by Merav Maroody

Dance Godani & Foniadakis, the Kamea Dance Company | The Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv

“Godani & Foniadakis” is a veritable international summit meeting between two acclaimed choreographers, Jacopo Godani and Andonis Foniadakis, who both emerged from the school of Maurice Béjart. Godani’s creation, for which he has also designed the costumes and lighting, skillfully plays the body as a multi-part instrument, challenging classical ballet through its own abstract language. Original music by Ulrich Müller. Foniadakis’ piece, “Kosmos”, is an intense work that challenges the limits of physicality and athleticism, fusing modern dance with entranced club dancing and mind-blowing physical acrobatics. (Artistic director: Tamir Ginz). March 6-8 at the Suzanne Dellal Centre, May 11 th at the Megiddo Cultural Centre, May 14 th in Beer Sheva; kameadance.com

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