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A physical-multimedia theatre laboratory on the northern border of Israel.
“We do not tell stories. We create states of being.”
The Shlomi Centre for Creativity | Est. 2000 | Shlomi, Galilee
The Shlomi Centre for Creativity is an innovative multidisciplinary centre for the arts and education, established in 2000 on the initiative of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. It is a home for creativity, education and community service — a school for alternative theatre, an artistic ensemble, and a laboratory for the research of awareness and creativity.
Based in Shlomi, a remote northern town, the theatre treats its periphery location as its material: deeply local, rooted in the landscape and social tensions of the Galilee, yet open to artists and audiences from Israel and the world.
Three pillars hold the whole vocabulary.
Actors are “bio-architects.” Movement is structural, not decorative — drawn from intense physical training inspired by Eugenio Barba’s anthropological theatre and Jerzy Grotowski’s poor theatre.
The stage is never static. Sets are modular, built from raw industrial materials, scaffolding and shifting platforms. The audience is repositioned — inside the action, or as voyeurs watching video feeds.
Video art is not a backdrop; it is a third dimension of the actor’s soul. Live projections and real-time camera feeds externalize the performer’s inner life as a moving image.
Shlomi Theater rejects psychological realism in favor of a postmodern, fractured, ritualistic approach — where logic gives way to raw sensory experience.
Modular sets of raw industrial material, scaffolding and shifting platforms. The audience is repositioned — sometimes inside the action, sometimes watching from the edge.
Where mainstream Israeli theatre is narrative-driven, with a strong emphasis on dialogue, Shlomi is an outlier in the periphery — operating as a theatre research lab focused on non-verbal, visceral and visual storytelling.
Deeply local and globally nomadic: an open platform where European, Israeli and Asian performance traditions meet in a borderless vocabulary of movement and image.
“Memory objects” — furniture, mannequins and debris as characters. The stage as a graveyard of memory.
The “holy actor”: extreme physical and vocal training that strips away artifice to reach a primal, exposed state.
Barter performances — an exchange of artistic gestures with communities — and pre-expressive acting principles: energy, balance, opposition.
Site-specificity and audience integration from the Akko Theatre Centre, breaking the fourth wall into a “fourth dimension.”
A constructivist sculpture: scaffolds, suspended screens, trapdoors and moving walls form a dynamic, unstable geography.
Live-feed manipulation: extreme close-ups of faces run through real-time filters. Abstracted video replaces scenery.
At least one new production premiered every year.
Participation in festivals and events across Israel; the “Ma Shlomi al HaGvul” festival.
A three-year school teaching the theatre’s unique language.
For drama-major students from schools nationwide.
For organizations and adult and youth groups.
For theatre and education professionals.
A lab for innovation in creation and education.
Ensemble and student activity in Shlomi and across the north.
A platform hosting Israeli and international artists.
A world premiere of visual, movement-based theatre — a corridor, a journey, intimacy, fading memories.
Performed at Shlomi and at Tmuna Theatre in Tel Aviv.
Presented at the Centre, Hapricha 1, Shlomi.
An exhibition open to the public in Safed.
A project touring around the country.
Tickets: 70 NIS regular; 50 NIS concession (locals, seniors, students, soldiers, youth). Booking advised — limited seats.
Or Nadav-Argov — formerly Artistic Director, Mirror Theatre, Kiryat Shmona
Pnina Rinzler — Founder, Lod Fringe Theatre
A three-year school teaching the theatre’s unique language, alongside the Centre’s artistic ensemble. Students are active in community work in Shlomi and across the north.
Begins November 2026. Registration is open.
High study scholarships available.
Prospective students are invited — details on the school page.
If studies in Shlomi cannot take place for security reasons, the school will operate at an alternative location in the north.
Faces as projection surfaces. Bodies as architecture.
Selected images © Graciela Jaichenco
Festivals, presenters, cultural institutions, schools, funders and residency partners — we would love to talk.