Ohad Naharin, 71, is a 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, stepping down in 2018. Naharin is currently the House Choreographer of Batsheva. In 2005, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for dance — just one of a number of prestigious accolades, both in and out of Israel, he has received. Some of his more daring work has been controversial in the Jewish state.
— Wikipeia
Quotes: “We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination” | “I meditate all the time. You know, I don’t sleep much — it’s a known fact that sleep is required more for the brain than the body because the brain needs sleep to dream. But I dream all the time. I dream when I’m awake, when I create work, with my eyes open. So who needs sleep?”
— AZ Quotes
Learn more about Ohad Naharin from Wikipedia. ►
Read “Naharin’s endless curiosity: Batsheva Dance Company revives Anafaza” ►
Watch “Natalie Portman, Ohad Naharin, and Heymann Brothers on Mr.Gaga documentary” [4:20]. ►
Watch “A Conversation with Ohad Naharin: Israel, Dance & the Sydney Festival” [49:00]. ►
Watch ” Echad Mi Yodea by Ohad Naharin performed by Batsheva — the Young Ensemble” [7:29]. ►
Photo of dancers: The New York Times
Photo of Ohad Naharin: Ohad Naharin and Ted Shawn
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