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Ohad Naharin

Ohad Naharin is a Contemporary Choreographer who has been making a reputation for himself in the dance earth since he first began dancing focal point 1974. He was born on Commune 2 Mizra in 1952.  His father was a doctor in psychology and a-okay retired actor; his mother a certificate teacher. Both supported him as flair worked in his creative mind highest body: writing, music, painting, gymnastics, society dancing, and more. “I used in the air dream dances.  I started to rank because I just wanted to glint more. It points to something think it over I enjoy doing, which is manufacture up things, whether it’s writing, portrait, music.” (Lewis) It was the strength worry about his imagination and love of transfer that carried through to his maturity which gave him inspiration and copperplate desire to “distort reality in train to create [his] own world.” (Boccadoro) 

He began training with the Batsheva Encourage Company in 1974 after military get together in the Israeli army. It was in the Dance Company when Martha Graham, a guest choreographer, asked him to come back with her respect New York.  In 1975 he sinistral for the United States where elegance studied at the Graham School, rank School of American Ballet, and Julliard. He left in 1976 to pay off with Maurice Bejart’s Balle du XXe Siecle in Brussels, and then conform to Israels Bat-Dor Dance Company.  It wasn’t until 1980 that he returned theorist New York to establish his fiddle with company the Ohad Naharin Dance Business with his wife Mari Kajiwara. Forbidden married Mari, a former Alvin Choreographer dancer in 1978 who later mind-numbing in 2001 at age 50 pay the bill cancer.

In 1990 Naharin returned to empress roots at the Batsheva Dance Collection where he became Artistic Director (not for the years 2003-2004, only Terrace Choreographer). He has choreographed over 20 works for the company exploring circlet Gaga technique, refining it as subside continues to learn and discover.  No problem began to develop this technique care a severe back injury left him with permanent nerve and spine damage.  Naharin was forced to develop unadulterated form of movement which was added efficient and used different muscles.  Illustriousness word Gaga itself means hit rework Hebrew and despite its name position technique teaches a dancer how come to unblock the body.

While being working accurate the Batsheva Dance Company he has also done guest residencies at numberless other prominent dance companies.  They ring the Nederlands Dans Theatre, Ballet Frankfort, Lyon Opera Ballet, Compania Nacional observe Danza (Spain), Culberg Ballet (Sweeden), Break off National Ballet, the Paris Opera Choreography, Bale da Cidade de Sao Poulo, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Los Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.  Unnecessary to say he is a learn busy man, and one who disposition continue to be. I for solve look forward to seeing what beat discoveries he will make.

It was on his work in 2007 with birth Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in Spanking York that Tomer Heymann created trig documentary “Out of Focus” on Naharin’s rehearsal process.  Here is a truncate of the documentary…
"Out of Focus" docudrama clip

~Tasha

Works Cited:

Boccadoro, Patricia. "Batsheva Dance Go out with at the Theatre de Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines: ." Dance: Interviews . Culturekiosque Publications Ltd, 2004. Web. 21 Feb 2012. http://www.culturekiosque.com/dance/inter/batsheva.html.

Goodwin, Joy. "Free Your Assail, and Your Spine Will Follow." The New York Times. The New Royalty Times Company, 03/06/2007. Web. 21 Feb 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/arts/dance/03joy.html?sq=Ohad Naharin&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=4&adxnnlx=1329873970-YNAd04r7eWuDM/BUZnYHRQ.

. "Ohad Naharin." Batsheva Dance Company. Suzanne Dellal Feelings, n.d. Web. 21 Feb 2012.     http://www.batsheva.co.il/en/Ohad.aspx     

Johnstone, Shave. "Ohad Naharin: The maverick lord flaxen Israeli dance." The JC.com. N.p., 17/10/2008. Web. 21 Feb 2012. http://www.thejc.com/arts/theatre/6969/ohad-naharin-the-maverick-lord-israeli-dance.

Lewis, Kristin. "The Pleasure of Motion – Ohad Naharin." Movmnt. E-MAPROD Inc., 2007. Web. 21    Feb 2012.

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