workshop GAGA - OHAD NAHARIN
For professional dancers and the Academy of Music Arts in Prague - dance dpt.
Friday the 5th od December 2008
17:00 - 19:00
Anenské nám. 2, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Dance studio of the National Theatre in Prague
sign in obligatory!
Regarding the limited capacity of the studio,
please send a registration e-mail to info@420people.org.
We would communicate back to you the current posibilities.
Sign in fee 250,- czk on place.
AMU - register to the head of the department Ivanka Kubicová
GAGA is the creation of Ohad Naharin,
artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company.
For Batsheva dancers, GAGA is essential daily practice,
it’s a combination of the passion to move,
the effort and the pleasure....It began 20 years ago
when Naharin was providing choreography
for Batsheva dancers. After a serious back injury,
he explained by e-mail, “I needed two things:
to get my body to move a little bit and also to be able
to give other people the keys to the way to move in my work.
"In the process", I developed an awareness
that had to do with finding where in my body
I'm not hurting and where in my body I have
unused muscles, unused movement.
"Eventually, through continued communication
of such movement to his dancers,
"it became a language and a method."
For professional dancers, Naharin considers
GAGA "higher education".
He says: “The important idea is
to make people excel in the method
they already know.
It’s not to abolish or cancel or change their techniques.
If someone wants to be a ballerina,
then GAGA can help her to be a ballerina.”
photo: Paul B. Goode
source: Lisa Santandrea
17:00 - 19:00
Anenské nám. 2, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Dance studio of the National Theatre in Prague
sign in obligatory!
Regarding the limited capacity of the studio,
please send a registration e-mail to info@420people.org.
We would communicate back to you the current posibilities.
Sign in fee 250,- czk on place.
AMU - register to the head of the department Ivanka Kubicová
GAGA is the creation of Ohad Naharin,
artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company.
For Batsheva dancers, GAGA is essential daily practice,
it’s a combination of the passion to move,
the effort and the pleasure....It began 20 years ago
when Naharin was providing choreography
for Batsheva dancers. After a serious back injury,
he explained by e-mail, “I needed two things:
to get my body to move a little bit and also to be able
to give other people the keys to the way to move in my work.
"In the process", I developed an awareness
that had to do with finding where in my body
I'm not hurting and where in my body I have
unused muscles, unused movement.
"Eventually, through continued communication
of such movement to his dancers,
"it became a language and a method."
For professional dancers, Naharin considers
GAGA "higher education".
He says: “The important idea is
to make people excel in the method
they already know.
It’s not to abolish or cancel or change their techniques.
If someone wants to be a ballerina,
then GAGA can help her to be a ballerina.”
photo: Paul B. Goode
source: Lisa Santandrea