Elephants don't dance ballet

Direction: Galya Weingarten & Ophra Levy-Yehudai / Artistic consultation: Yael Inbar / Musical adaptation: Eldad Leedor / Set: Lily Ben-Nahshon / Costumes: Dalia Pen / elephants' design: Revital Arieli / Lighting: Shai Yehudai / Cast: Lenny Shafir/Hen Danon, Maytal Kain, Yuval Segev/David Blinka, Michal Almogi/Irena Shulman, Daffna Nagler/Noa Rosenthal, Shlomit Pondaminski, Yael Rosen-Tal.

When the elephant Esmeralda wanted to become a ballet dancer, her mother was not so sure she should- after all, elephants don’t dance ballet.  But Esmeralda always gets what she wants and she started to learn ballet. When the dancers learned how to pirouette Esmeralda got entangled with her trunk, fell down and turned over. But, at the end, Esmeralda managed to prove to all, that elephants could dance ballet.

"This show appeals to anyone who wants something and finds it hard to achieve. The message is that with a lot of strength and willpower one can reach even that which seems to be unreachable. Much was invested in this show, the actors are excellent, the dancers superb and famous by their own right. The decorations, the costumes – everything is as it should be and on the highest level" .
(Ronny Gur "The first source", 29.04.2005)

 

For ages: kindergarten to grade 3