Born With Magic - Genesis, City Hall Theatre, August 7 In the beginning Tnuatron created darkness and much squealing from toddlers.
Down on stage, a man swallowed light and then blew it back and there was day. The stars and the moon were a silver Atlas, a human strobe. A swathe of sheeting bubbled and erupted to become the Earth.
Creeping things stamped a rhythm across the stage with their hands. Cubist shapes danced into life.
The Tnuatron Dance Theatre's biblical references may have been a little hard to get, the Philippe Starck look easier to clock, the show nearly half-an-hour too long for the large number of small people in the audience, but the Israeli company was still an inspired piece of programming for the Children's Arts Carnival.
Slick, fast, witty, this troupe of female actors aged 10-20 from primary, junior high and high schools around Tel Aviv, told the story of Genesis, the first chapter of the Bible, through theatre, gymnastics, dance, music and mime.
Their choreographer and artistic director, Dorit Shimron, created an often seamless series of dances: The Four Elements, Luminaries - Sun And Moon, Wild Life, Human Being and Grandfather's Tale.