ZAZEL

 

In 1877, seventeen-year-old circus acrobat Rossa Matilda meets the “Great Farrini”, a clever producer and businessman who invented an innovative machine for launching objects and people into the air. She becomes a human cannonball and, under the stage name Zazel, quickly transforms into a major star. As a human projectile, she performs dangerous circus acts all over the world.

 

Zazel is both heroine and victim, an innocent girl and a symbol of death, protagonist and observer. In a gradually intensifying process, we witness the accumulation of attention leading towards the climax — the cannon shot.

 

Choreographer Miriam Engel, in collaboration with composer Yigal Myrtenbaum, has created a music and dance work that reveals the true story of Zazel — from her fateful encounter with Farrini, through the first cannon shot, to the bittersweet ending.

 

Choreography, direction and performance: Miriam Engel

Music: Yigal Mirtenbaum

Lighting design: Guy Galili

 

Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Sport, Jerusalem Municipality, Campi, Yael – Home for Dance and Performance Creators in Jerusalem, Choreographers Association

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