Improv Everywhere

July 28, 2008 - 2:52 PM by Harry · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art

Frozen Tel Aviv It all started in August 2001, a group of creative New Yorkers decided to bring joy to a city which had recently experienced it’s greatest tragedy of all time. They founded Improv Everywhere, a organization whose goal is to simply to “make scenes” in public. It’s where street theater meets public art meets entertainment. They’ve done some pretty quirky stuff such as a fake U2 concert on a NY rooftop, turning a subway car into a haunted house, and even conducting a musical in a mall food court (my personal favorite). Their most ambitious scene involved over 200 participants who simultaneously “froze” in the middle of Grand Central Station. The video of this event on YouTube has over 12 million views and has inspired many other groups around the world.

Including in Tel Aviv.

On July 11 a few dozen (sadly not hundreds) of Tel Avivites “froze” in the middle of a main public square at the end of the Carmel market simultaneously confusing and entertaining the myriad of shoppers, tourists and passersby.