BINA is a contemporary circus performance
designed especially for the elderly audience.
This non verbal performance combines high
level circus skills, live music, physical
humor and surprising moments.
BINA brings the magic of circus to the elderly
population environment and offers an
experience of artistry and heartfelt moments
in a warm and inclusive atmosphere
Creators & Performers: Yuval Oz, Ron Beeri.
Costume Designer: Laura Garcia.
Circus Performance for the Elderly Audience
How?
During two years we’ve done week-long creation residencies in various countries, focusing on the theme of “The Path to Wisdom”. During these residencies, we explored the integration of live music into our circus disciplines, as research shows that it has a profound impact.
This approach allowed us to gain valuable insights into the challenges of creating a circus show inside elderly home spaces. More importantly, it helped us understand what truly resonates with this audience and how to design a performance that addresses their unique needs in meaningful and thoughtful ways.
Through this process, we also discovered other pressing issues faced by elderly homes, such as a lack of human contact, playfulness and colors. To address those issues we created a scene that directly tackles those themes.
It was crucial for us to involve our audience not only in the performance itself but also throughout the creative process. At the end of each residency, we visited local elderly homes, where we presented a work-in-progress and asked for feedback from both residents and staff.
Artists
Ron Beeri
Ron is a Juggler/ Circus artist, mentor and a pedagog.
Ron was born in a small “Kibbutz” (Beit Haemek) in the north of Israel.
As a teenager he discovered juggling through kids on the street in his hometown (Kfar Saba). Beside the art form being a way of expressing himself, juggling became a medicine for his ADHD.
After Creating and performing the show “Manipulation” with Kulu Orr, he moved to Stockholm Sweden where he graduated from the BA program at Dance & Circus University ( DOCH/SKH ) in 2012.
Later on he founded his own company BEERI in Sweden as well as co-founding Lazuz Company with Itamar Glucksmann. He created and toured around the world his solo shows YAD & KUNTZIM, his duo shows LAZUZ & BAKTANA and toured with Claire Parsons Dance Company.
Beside performing on stage, he is teaching his own methods in different venues and schools around the world.
Ron is also working with several circus companies as an outside eye and mentoring.
Yuval Oz
Yuval is a circus artist ( head and hand balancer ) musician, an entrepreneur and the founder and artistic director of “Bascula”, Tel-Aviv, Israel. His first time on stage was at the age of 7 in “Be’er Sheva Municipal Theater”. He Graduated from “Thelma Yellin High School Of The Arts” with a major in theatre. He created the “Alabama” band and performed with it over 300 times in Israel.
In 2006-2007 he learned the art of Hand & Head Balancing under the guidance of Claude Victoria, in France. After returning back to Israel he performed as a circus performer in various productions, with the Israeli Opera, The Cameri Theater (Tel-Aviv Main Theater) and more. In 2011 – 2012 he performed in the US with different productions and also won the “STREB Emerging Artists” scholarship. After Returning to Israel in 2012 he created the “LOBOS” show, as well as creating and producing several other shows and managing the production for 2 shows from abroad.
In 2015 he established “Bascula”, a company devoted to promoting contemporary circus in Israel. While managing “Bascula”, Yuval created and co-created a few more shows like “Randomania”,“Alterman”, “Elements”, “Up Beat” and “Imperfections”.
