I started out in the back, talked to a friend and suddenly everyone was floating and I was right smack in the middle, right front front of Ohad Naharin.
Frist off, a huge shout out to Paul Bloom for making this class of Gaga classes and Batsheva Repertoire happen. And then another shout out to Aya Israeli for hashing out the details to make it to Suzanne Dellal to take class from Ohad with the Batsheva Company, to sit in on a stage rehearsal of "Shlosh" and finally to have a short but lovely talk with Ohad himself.
There's often a creation of godlike qualities with "celebrities". It gets your expectations up. Which is all wrong. Humanity is all we have. And Ohad is definitely human for those who were wondering. It was such as odd experience. A feeling of surreality, from being in a room with people that help to motivate your everyday, with a feeling of reality, that these are people, that make decisions, mistakes, and laughs. And jokes. Oh the jokes.
To have taken Gaga classes from over a dozen different dancers that have studied under Ohad and then take from the master himself only to hear him say (along the lines of) "I make up these terms and then forget them, and then when I remember them, they are reinterpreted"...I mean, yeah, that's what is creating a movement language. You don't wake up one morning and have most of it figured out. It comes and goes and is misunderstood and re-understood. At first I was slightly confused by the terms, because some things were unclear, or contradicted from teacher to teacher, but now I realize, he doesn't even fully understand everything! Because he's still investigating. We are all investigating what these terms mean: moons, yo-yo, pika, lena, groove, fofo (fufu?), horizontal movement, thread, far away engines and many many more...
To be apart of this understanding, even in a secondary format, is really incredible.
To be in that space with those energies, of excitement, worry, nervousness, comfortability, tire, relaxation....it was an amalgam of beauty to create a lovely space for research and creativity.
Newest Decor: the challenge to find comfortability under gazing eyes...
Frist off, a huge shout out to Paul Bloom for making this class of Gaga classes and Batsheva Repertoire happen. And then another shout out to Aya Israeli for hashing out the details to make it to Suzanne Dellal to take class from Ohad with the Batsheva Company, to sit in on a stage rehearsal of "Shlosh" and finally to have a short but lovely talk with Ohad himself.
There's often a creation of godlike qualities with "celebrities". It gets your expectations up. Which is all wrong. Humanity is all we have. And Ohad is definitely human for those who were wondering. It was such as odd experience. A feeling of surreality, from being in a room with people that help to motivate your everyday, with a feeling of reality, that these are people, that make decisions, mistakes, and laughs. And jokes. Oh the jokes.
To have taken Gaga classes from over a dozen different dancers that have studied under Ohad and then take from the master himself only to hear him say (along the lines of) "I make up these terms and then forget them, and then when I remember them, they are reinterpreted"...I mean, yeah, that's what is creating a movement language. You don't wake up one morning and have most of it figured out. It comes and goes and is misunderstood and re-understood. At first I was slightly confused by the terms, because some things were unclear, or contradicted from teacher to teacher, but now I realize, he doesn't even fully understand everything! Because he's still investigating. We are all investigating what these terms mean: moons, yo-yo, pika, lena, groove, fofo (fufu?), horizontal movement, thread, far away engines and many many more...
To be apart of this understanding, even in a secondary format, is really incredible.
To be in that space with those energies, of excitement, worry, nervousness, comfortability, tire, relaxation....it was an amalgam of beauty to create a lovely space for research and creativity.
Newest Decor: the challenge to find comfortability under gazing eyes...