Ohad naharin biography
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Ohad Naharin (IL)
BIOGRAPHY
Ohad Naharin (born 1952 in the kibbutz Mazra, Israel) is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and musician.
Naharin studied at Juilliard and with the Martha Graham company before returning to Israel to direct the Batsheva Dance Company, which was founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild.
Naharin's works are performed by the Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Frankfurt Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Rambert Dance Company.
Most recently, his work has been performed by the Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble in New York.
12.12.2008
ARCHIVE
Performances
2004
Nederlands Dans Theater - NDT II
Kylian, Van Manen & Naharin
Minus 16
1998
Nederlands Dans Theater / NDT II
Un Ballo u.a.
Passomezzo
1998
Nederlands Dans Theater / NDT III
A Way A Lone u.a.
Two Short Stories
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Ohad Naharin
Biography
Naharin was born in Kibbutz Mizra to Eliav Naharin (an actor at the Bimah Theater in the 1940s) and Zofia, a dancer who had to quit dancing due to health issues and turned to teaching movement and choreography. When he was five and a half years old, the family moved to Kiryat Shmona.
Naharin played the guitar and sang with the Northern Command Band as a singer and dancer. After his military service, he studied ballet in New York and was a member of Martha Graham's dance company. He later joined the Maurice Béjart dance company in Brussels. Upon returning to Israel in 1982, he started choreographing for various Israeli dance groups.
In 1990, he was appointed the artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company and created numerous works, including "Tabula Rasa," "Virus," "Anaphaza," and "Kyr." Naharin became embroiled in a controversy between religious and secular groups during the performance of "Jubilee Bells" in 1998. Religious figures protested the use o
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Ohad Naharin
Israeli choreographer and dancer
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.
Biography
[edit]Ohad Naharin was born in 1952 in KibbutzMizra.[1] Raised in an artistic home, he wrote stories, composed music, and painted as a child. His father was a psychologist specializing in psychodrama and an actor who performed with Habima and the Haifa Theater. His mother was a Feldenkrais instructor, choreographer and dancer. [2] Nevertheless, Naharin did not start dancing until age 22.[3] During his first year with the Batsheva Dance Company, Martha Graham visited Israel and invited Naharin to join her dance company in New York. After dancing for Martha Graham, he attended Juilliard and the School of American Ballet.&