He performed there for two years before dancing with the main company for ten more seasons. During these years, Matan also studied at Bat Dor Dance School, and at age 17 he attended the Juilliard summer program.Īfter high school, at age 18, Matan was accepted to the Batsheva Ensemble. He started dancing as a folk dancer and at the age of 15 was accepted to Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts. Matan was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel in 1982. This class gives dancers an opportunity to learn excerpts of Ohad Naharin’s choreographic works and to apply their training in Gaga to the repertory. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. The classes employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. Gaga classes are predicated on a deep listening to the body and to physical sensations. Gaga is the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and artistic director (1990-2018) of Batsheva Dance Company. If you want to participate in the repertoire class you also need to take the morning class! This summer training is a collaboration between Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Syd.
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