NCPA Dance Festival 2016
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Approximate 80 mins (No intermissions)About
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Deca Dance by Ohad Naharin is more like a reconstruction of his choreography work than creation. It includes such excerpts as Kyr (1990), Mabul (1992), Anaphaza (1993), Z/na (1995), Zachacha (1998), Virus (2001), Three (2005), Telophaza (2006), Max (2007) and Sadeh21 (2011) (listed in order of premiere of original works).
Credits:
Artistic Director: Ohad Naharin
Executive Director: Dina Aldor
Co-Artistic Director: Adi Salant
Company Manager & Stage Manager: Gavriel Spitzer
Senior Rehearsal Director: Luc Jacobs
Director: Iris Bovshover
Producer: Naomi Friend
Chief Technical Director: Roni Cohen
Lighting: Gadi Glik
Sound: Dudi Bell
Technician: Aliaksei Prezhyn
Wardrobe: Maya Lavi, Shoshana Or Lavi
Lighting and Stage Design: Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Costume Design (Original Creations): Rakefet Levi
Dancers:
William Barry, Yael Ben Ezer, Matan Cohen, Omri Drumlevich , Bret Easterling, Hsin-Yi Hsiang, Rani Lebzelter , Or Moshe Ofri, Rachael Osborne , Nitzan Ressler, Ian Robinson , Kyle Scheurich , Or Meir Schraiber, Maayan Sheinfeld , Yoni Simon, Zina (Natalya) Zinchenko, Adi Zlatin
Music:
Recado Bossa Nova - Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova All-Stars (N. Antonio/D. Ferreira)
Choo Choo Cha Cha – Rinky Dinks
Gopher Mamboby - Yma Sumac
Blue Rhumba - Rolley Polley
Chihuahua -Luis Oliveria
Glow Worm Cha Cha Cha - Jackie Davis
It must be true – John Buzon Trio
Hava Nagila arranged by Dick Dale
Illusion - Maxim Warratt
Echad mi Yodea- traditional folk song arranged and performed by Ohad Naharin and The Tractor's Revenge
Fac Ut Ardeat – Vivaldi
Stones Start Spinning - David Darling
Arab Folk Music arranged - Habib Alla Jamal and Khader Shama
Cum Dederit - Vivaldi
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen (adapted by Marusha)
Hooray for Hollywood - Don Swan & His Orchestra
Sway - Dean Martin (from "Cha Cha De Amor")
Favourite Final Geisha Show - Chari Chari
Flutter - Kid 606,
Mount Carmel - Rayon,
Ambient Trust, Chronomad (Wahed),Private Birds and You Stop - AGF
On – Fennesz
Na Tum Jono Ha Sum – Rajesh Roshan
Me - Seefeel
You're Welcome - Brian Wilson, performed by The Beach Boys
Batsheva Dance Company Choreographer & Artistic Director Ohad Naharin has been hailed as one of the world’s preeminent contemporary choreographers. As Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company since 1990, he has guided the company with an adventurous artistic vision and reinvigorated its repertory with his captivating choreography. Naharin is also the originator of an innovative movement language, Gaga, which has enriched his extraordinary movement invention, revolutionized the company’s training, and emerged as a growing force in the larger field of movement practices for both dancers and non-dancers.
Born in 1952 on Kibbutz Mizra, Ohad Naharin began his dance training with the Batsheva Dance Company in 1974. During his first year with the company, visiting choreographer Martha Graham singled out Naharin for his talent and invited him to join her own company in New York. While in New York, Naharin studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, furthered his training at The Juilliard School, and polished his technique with master teachers Maggie Black and David Howard. He went on to perform internationally with Israel’s Bat-Dor Dance Company and Maurice Bejart’s Ballet du XXe Siecle in Brussels.
Naharin returned to New York in 1980, making his choreographic debut at the Kazuko Hirabayshi studio. That year, he formed the Ohad Naharin Dance Company with his wife, Mari Kajiwara, who died of cancer in 2001. From 1980 until 1990, Naharin’s company performed in New York and abroad to great critical acclaim. As his choreographic voice developed, he received commissions from world-renowned companies including Batsheva, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and Nederlands Dans Theater.
Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company in 1990 and has served in this role except for the 2003-2004 season, when he held the title of House Choreographer. During his tenure with the company, Naharin has choreographed over 20 works for Batsheva and its junior division, Batsheva Ensemble. He has also restaged over 10 of his dances for the company and recombined excerpts from his repertory to create Deca Dance, a constantly evolving evening-length work.
Naharin trained in music throughout his youth, and he has often used his musical prowess to amplify his choreographic impact. He has collaborated with several notable musical artists to create scores for his dances, including Israeli rock group The Tractor’s Revenge (for Kyr, 1990), Avi Balleli and Dan Makov (for Anaphaza, 1993), and Ivri Lider (for Z/na, 1995). Under the pseudonym Maxim Waratt, Naharin composed music for MAX (2007) and edited and mixed the soundtracks for Mamootot (2003), (2009), Sadeh21 (2011) and The Hole (2013). Naharin also combined his talents for music and dance in Playback (2004), a solo evening which he directed and performed.
In addition to his work for the stage, Naharin has pioneered Gaga, an innovative movement language. Gaga, which emphasizes the exploration of sensation and availability for movement, is now the primary training method for Batsheva’s dancers. Gaga has also attracted a wide following among dancers around the world and appealed to the general public in Israel, where open classes are offered regularly in Tel Aviv and other locations.
Naharin’s compelling choreographic craft and inventive, supremely textured movement vocabulary have made him a favorite guest artist in dance companies around the world. His works have been performed by prominent companies including Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, Lyon Opera Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza (Spain), Cullberg Ballet (Sweden), the Finnish National Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, Bale da Cidade de Sao Paulo, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Les Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. Naharin’s rehearsal process with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet during a restaging of Deca Dance was the subject of Tomer Heymann’s documentary Out of Focus (2007).
Naharin’s rich contributions to the field of dance have garnered him many awards and honors. In Israel, he has received a Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa by the Weizmann Institute of Science (2004), the prestigious Israel Prize for dance (2005), a Jewish Culture Achievement Award by The Foundation for Jewish Culture (2008), a Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa by the Hebrew University (2008), and the EMET Prize in the category of Arts and Culture (2009). Naharin has also been the recipient of the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government (1998), two New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards (for Naharin's Virus at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2002 and for Anaphaza at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2003), the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009), Dance Magazine Award (2009), an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Juilliard School in New York (2013), an Honorary Fellowship by the Tel Aviv Museum (2014),and an Honorary Fellowship by the Rupin Academic Center (2015), The Carina Ari Medal, Sweden (2016), Award for Excellence in the Arts in Israel, The Harvard Club of Israel (2016). Naharin will participate this year in the prestigious Rolex Mentor-Protégé Arts Initiative, and will serve as mentor for Londiwe Khoza, a young dancer from South Africa.
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.