***

Audience members start to gather at Gate 5 of Haifa Port.

Once they all gather, a very old Capitan stands in front of them.

He lights up his flashlight and starts to walk into the port, without saying a word.

(A kind of “follow me.”)

The lights of the entire city shut off. A total darkness, apart from the Capitan’s flashlight.

The audience follows the narrow light beam. They arrive at a small pier.

The Capitan is boarding the audience onto rubber boats, one at a time. From that moment on, each member of the audience is in their own boat. Alone.

(Wearing life jackets, of course.)

The boats set off together in unison, under a starry night sky.

The boats arrive at a floating barge, upon which the Palestinian Philharmonic Orchestra is seated.

(Wearing life jackets, of course.)

It turns out that the Capitan is no other than Maestro Zubin Mehta.

The audience is staring at the city of Haifa in the dark. Time passes.

**

A single downtown crane lights up.

The Philharmonic starts playing the piece you forgot was your favorite.

A crane in the Bat-Galim neighborhood lights up for a moment and shuts off.

30 more cranes from Haifa Port light up, their arms starting to move in perfect unison.

150 more cranes from around the city join in a choreography that moves between darkness and light, east and west, south and north.

The cranes break their unified movement and start to move in different directions.

Possible structures are being created by their movements. Different shapes, sizes, and contour lines. They offer in their movements all of the cities Haifa could have been. Cities are formed and buried immediately.

A choreography of temporary structures.

From time to time, on their way to creating another passing formation, the cranes “accidentally” crash into a permanent building.

All of the Still buildings on the horizon are standing like gravestones waiting to be smashed by the cranes’ movements.

The city’s skyscrapers collapse.

The performance ends when the cranes recover their perfect unison movement, in time with the ocean waves underneath the rubber boats.

*

Until they all stop forever.