decadance: New Premiere of the National Theatre Ballet in June

For the first time ever, the Czech National Ballet’s repertoire will include works of the legendary Israeli creator Ohad Naharin. On Thursday, June 4 it will be the premiere decadence that will take place at the New Stage of the National Theatre.
“And although the evening will comprise a special combination of parts of and entire opuses conceived by Ohad Naharin over the past decade, to a certain degree it will be a new form, since original moments will be created within the direction line and choreographic structure of the whole performance. Ohad Naharin’s powerful charisma, specific geographical and cultural background, singular and unique poetics of movement and idiom in general represent an immense and novel experience not only for the Czech National Ballet dancers but also, and most notably, for the audience, who can expect an exceptional, overwhelming, remarkable spectacle,” organizer say.
Born in 1952 in Kibbutz Mizra, Ohad Naharin began his dance training with the Batsheva Dance Company at the age of 22. During his first year with the company, the visiting choreographer Martha Graham singled out Naharin for his talent and invited him to join her own company in New York. While in the USA, he studied and polished his technique. He went on to perform internationally with Israel’s Bat-Dor Dance Company and Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels. Naharin returned to New York in 1980, making his choreographic debut at the Kazuko Hirabayshi studio, and that year he formed the Ohad Naharin Dance Company with his wife, Mari Kajiwara. Since 1990, he has been at the helm of the Batsheva Dance Company, based in Tel Aviv.
Naharin himself says about his dance language Gaga: Gaga is a language that is still developing. And it largely concerns listening to your body, that which it feels, no matter if you are dancing or are at rest. This consciousness in turn creates space for emotions, as emotions are borne on a current of energy. Becoming aware of your body gives rise to space for its explosiveness; to explode, you also need space. Yet becoming aware also creates scope for subtlety. And that is what I strive to achieve.”
“Ohad Naharin is a choreographer capable of escalating the audience’s tension, his productions are rituals and celebrations, great events and spectacles. Even though his works are in the repertoire of the world’s most renowned companies, he has never premiered any of them with any other than his own, Batsheva. On the other hand, he does not transfer his works to other companies blindly, without arrangements, usually modifying them, as well as often devising tailor-made collages made up of abstracts of his choreographies and amending them with new elements and connections.
Naharin’s choreographies are vital, ever-evolving. This is also the case of the version of decadance
created for Prague and the Czech National Ballet,”
conclude organizers.
The auspices of the production have been personally assumed by His Excellency Mr. Gary Koren, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Czech Republic.

Source: The Czech National Ballet

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