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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.
In 1990, Ohad Naharin was appointed artistic director of the company. One of the first things Naharin did as director was request higher pay for the dancers and make their workdays much longer. Naharin had been studying with Graham in New York and had previously presented choreographic works in New York as well as in Tel Aviv.
The Gaga movement language was created by Ohad Naharin, former Martha Graham dancer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company (1990-2018), and has been further developed in relation to Naharin's research in dance and choreography. Naharin created Gaga as a reaction to a back injury he was experiencing.
In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater, and after dancing for five years retired from performing to become artistic director of the main company, leading NDT1 for a decade and presenting the works of Jiri Kylian, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot ...
Ohad Naharin has been artistic director since 1990. The Bat-Dor Dance Company was an Israeli dance company co-founded by Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild and dancer Jeannette Ordman. [18] Bat Dor made its debut in 1968 with Ordman as its leading dancer. The company existed until July 2006. [19]
She is a teacher of the Gaga style of dance, invented by the director of the Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin. [2] In Israel, Agami danced with the Batsheva Dance Company from 2002 to 2010. From 2008 to 2010, she was the company's rehearsal director. [3] In 2011, Agami moved to New York and became the executive producer of Gaga USA.
Entebbe (titled 7 Days in Entebbe in the U.S.), a 2018 crime thriller film directed by José Padilha and written by Gregory Burke, features a dance on the tunes of the Echad Mi Yodea song, choreographed by Ohad Naharin of the Batsheva dance company. [3]
Jon Boogz; Lil Buck; Israel Galván; Akram Khan; Ohad Naharin; Kimiko Versatile; Theatre and dance scholar Octavian Saiu, who hosted dialogues with three of the artists featured in the series, praised the programme for “disseminating information about contemporary dance to a wide audience”.