Ohad naharin biography of decca dance review
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Power and power play are brought into sharp focus in this series of highly charged sequences from the past 20 years of works made for the Israeli company, Batsheva Dance bygd choreographer Ohad Naharin.
We enter the theatre to share the kraftfull space with solo dancers moving immaculately and silently in their own groove of movement. A short script that speaks of beauty, style and suffering, inspired bygd Charles Bukowski communicates literally to the audience and then leaves dance to be the communicator. And how they dance!
These are beautiful dancers with clean clear rhythmic moves that relentlessly deliver individual styles. United visually by the formality of suits and white shirts – the attire of business – gradually the stage fills and abruptly the gardin falls! An unexpected and mildly disconcerting moment as we the audience are shut out from this sinuous world of possibility.
When the gardin flies out again, eighteen formally clothed, hatted, asexual danc
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As I mentioned at the end of the last post, I am introducing a new category on the blog to allow me to write the occasional review. I used to keep a blog about dance, but gave it up when I moved to New Zealand to concentrate on writing about our new life here. Anyway, with the New Zealand Festival now in full swing, I thought it a good time to start this new addition to the blog. Feedback, as usual, is welcome.
On the opening night of the Festival, I went to see Batsheva Dance Company. The evening, called ‘Deca Dance’, was composed of extracts of a number of works, choreographed by the artistic director, Ohad Naharin. I had actually seen two of the extracts twice before, once in Edinburgh and once in Copenhagen.
The evening began with an improvised solo piece (danced by Shamel Pitts), which was performed while the audience was entering the theatre and finding their seats. He had wonderful elastic movements which drew eyes to the stage while people switched off mo
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Ohad Naharin
Israeli choreographer and dancer
Ohad Naharin (born 1952) (Hebrew: אוהד נהרין) is an Israeli choreographer, contemporary dancer, and creator and teacher of a unique system/language/pedagogy of dance called Gaga. He served as artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company from 1990; he stepped down in 2018.
Biography
[edit]Ohad Naharin was born in 1952 in KibbutzMizra.[1] Raised in an artistic home, he wrote stories, composed music, and painted as a child. His father was a psychologist specializing in psychodrama and an actor who performed with Habima and the Haifa Theater. His mother was a Feldenkrais instructor, choreographer and dancer. [2] Nevertheless, Naharin did not start dancing until age 22.[3] During his first year with the Batsheva Dance Company, Martha Graham visited Israel and invited Naharin to join her dance company in New York. After dancing for Martha Graham, he attended Juilliard and the School of American Ballet.&