Batsheva close up.
OK, I'll say it: Ohad Naharin Ohad Naharin (born 1952, Israel) is a dancer and choreographer.
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. is one of the greatest choreographers This is a list of choreographers A
- Paula Abdul
- Alvin Ailey
- Richard Alston
- Robert Alton
- Gerald Arpino
- Frederick Ashton
- Fred Astaire
- Lea Anderson
B
- Jean Babilée
- George Balanchine
of our time. He has the ability to dig deep and let you feel a person's pain or joy or slyness or hopeless love. Always there is an urgency; always there is a moment of human revelation; always there are inventive, poignant, desperate, or serene movement sequences spliced together. This fall the BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. Next Wave Festival brings Naharin's Mamootot (pronounced mah/MOO/tote) to the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, November 15-27. The space is intimate, the dance is in the round, and the nine dancers are from his excellent Israel-based group, Batsheva Dance Company The Batsheva Dance Company is a highly respected dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel and founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964, after whom it was named.
Ohad Naharin has been its in house choreographer since 1990. . www.bam.org.
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