DECADANCE #22
Batsheva Ensemble
Ohad Naharin
Ohad Naharin created Decadance in 2000 to mark the tenth anniversary of his work in Batsheva Dance Company with ten excerpts from choreographies he created for the company. Since then, every season Naharin returns with the dancers to Decadance and presents new adaptations to iconic works from his repertoire as well as new pieces, meticulously curating and editing them into a captivating collage.
Østre Gasværk Teater
27th - 28th of May, 2023
“Decadance is where we celebrate our repertoire, the playground in which we add or subtract and adapt pieces from our body of work. It is an opportunity to look at our work from different angles. More than anything, I love how Deca-dance allows the dancers to give their own interpretation, which is full of sublime moments.”
Ohad Naharin
“Emotional, essential, formidable”
British Theatre Guide
Decadance embodies the possibility of a piece to remain open-ended, forever becoming, never finite. This is an invitation to revisit compositions written for the body and the company’s diverse materials, to dive into them, remix them, look at them with fresh eyes, and sense ourselves in front of them time and again, but never the same.
Ohad Naharin is also a familiar figure in the Danish dance scene. The Batsheva Dance Company has previously performed in Denmark, brought here by the Copenhagen International Theatre, the Royal Danish Theatre, and the Dance Scene, and Ohad Naharin has staged his works with both the Royal Danish Ballet and the Danish Dance Theatre.
Ohad Naharin has developed the experimental movement and body language GAGA, which is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through the body.
GAGA increases awareness of the body's physical possibilities and awakens strong emotions.
In his many years as artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin expanded the dancers' scope for interpretation and movement when GAGA became part of the company's DNA.
The dancers from the Batsheva Ensemble will undoubtedly provide the audience with a creative and inspiring experience in their encounter with professional Gaga, where imagination can work and thoughts can flow freely.
Credits
Performed by The Batsheva Ensemble season 2022-2023:
Gili Yaniv Amodai, Adi Blumenreich, Maya Botzer Simhon, Emil Brukman, Holden Cole, Lounes Landri, Bo Matthews, Mermoz Melchior, Roni Milatin, Kylie Miller, Dor Nahum, Sofiia Pikalova, Adi Schwarz, Ido Toledano, Naomi Turnpo, Annika Verplancke.
Aspirants: Mika Goren, Niv Kabiri, Ori Mbazbaz, Leann Reizer.
New choreographies of excerpts from:
Seder (2007), Sadeh21 (2011), Yag (1996), Anaphase (1993), Naharin’s Virus (2001), Kyr (1990), Max (2007), Zachacha (1998)
Light Design: Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Costume Design: Rakefet Levi
Costume Fitting Eri Nakamura
Soundtrack Design and Edit: Maxim Waratt
Text: Maxim Waratt
Text about the performance Shira Vitaly
Teknisk Chef: Yuval Glickman
Lys: Nir Gavrielli
Sound: Ran Yeshurun
Sceneteknik: Saul Itzhak
Music:
“Issa Nore” by Maxim Waratt
“Train” by Goldfrapp
“Pictures” by Ohad Fishof & Maxim Waratt
“Stones Start Spinning” by David Darling
“Verlaine: Part I: Un midi moins dix” by John Zorn
“Al Ghariba” by Khader Shama
“Riacho” by Guem
“Hava Nagila” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones
“Echad Mi Yodea” by The Tractor’s Revenge & Maxim Waratt
“Somewhere over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen
“Sway” by Luis Demetrio
“Na Tum Jano Na Hum” by Rajesh Roshan Ibrahim Ashq
“Do” by Micha Acher, Markus Acher, Guido Hieronymus
“You’re Welcome” by Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks
Verdenspremiere: Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv, 2000