ADI SALANT
At the age of six she entered the Bat-Dor Dance School, where she studied for 12 years. After her graduation from Alon High School of Art (dance division) and the Bat-Dor School, Adi joined Bat-Sheva Junior Ensemble for 2 years. She then was invited to Bat-Sheva Dance Company where she danced for 5 years.
In 2001 when Adi left the company, Mr. Ohad Naharin offered her the position as his assistant. Until 2009 Adi has been staging his works on leading companies all over the world. ?in 2004 Adi moved to Denmark to join her partner, and sparked off her own teaching and choreography career by winning the choreography competition "Dansolution", in Copenhagen Denmark. ?In the following years she was commissioned to create for various theaters & companies in Denmark, and was invited to present the creations in festivals in USA, Europe & Israel.?In September 2009 Adi returned to Israel with her family, and rejoined Bat-Sheva Dance Company, as the Associate Artistic Director.
Gaga is the movement language that was developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and the artistic director of the "Bat-Sheva" Dance Company.
Gaga has tracks for: Gaga/ dancers, Gaga/ People.
Gaga is the daily training of the "Bat-Sheva" Dance Company. Several years ago, Naharin started an experiment on non-dancer friends and acquaintances. Over the course of two years Gaga evolved and became a dynamic language that is suitable for everyone, of any age without the necessity of prior experience. Gaga was opened to the public in 2001, and today it is being taught to a growing group of people in the Suzanne Dellal Centre, and at additional places in the country and abroad.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self awareness through your body. Gaga is a new way for learning and strengthening your body, adding flexibility, stamina and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations and offers ways for their elimination. Gaga elevates instinctive motion, links conscious and subconscious movement. Gaga is an experience of freedom and pleasure. In a simple way, a pleasant place, comfortable close, accompanied by music, every person with himself and others.
"Gaga challenges multi layer tasks. It is fundamental for gaga users to be available for this challenge.
At once we, the users, can be involved in moving slowly through space while a quick action in our body is in progress. Those dynamics of movement are only a portion of what else might go on at the same time.
We are letting our mind observe and analyze many things at once, we are aware of the connection between effort and pleasure, we connect to the "sense of plenty of time?, especially when we move fast, we are aware of the distance between our body parts, we are aware of the friction between flesh and bones, we sense the weight of our body parts, we are aware of where we hold unnecessary tension, we let go only to bring life and efficient movement to where we let go...
We are listening, seeing, measuring, playing with the texture of our flesh, we might be silly, decorating our inside, we can laugh at ourselves.
We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination.
We learn to appreciate understatement and exaggeration, we discover the difference between joy and pleasure and use both to protect ourselves from injuring and hurting our body, we learn to apply our force in an efficient way and we learn to use "other" forces,
We become more delicate and we recognize the importance of the flow of energy and information through our body in all directions!
We discover the advantage of soft flesh and sensitive hands, we learn to connect to groove even when there is no music.
We become more aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all. We never look at ourselves in a mirror, there are no mirrors. We become better aware of our form. We connect to the sense of the endless of possibilities.
We explore multi dimensional movement, we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles, we are ready to snap, we are aware of what we are made of, we are aware of our explosive power and some times we use it.
We change our movement habits by finding new ones, we can be calm and alert at once.
We become available..."
About Gaga
Gaga is the movement language that was developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and the artistic director of the "Bat-Sheva" Dance Company.
Gaga has tracks for: Gaga/ dancers, Gaga/ People.
Gaga is the daily training of the "Bat-Sheva" Dance Company. Several years ago, Naharin started an experiment on non-dancer friends and acquaintances. Over the course of two years Gaga evolved and became a dynamic language that is suitable for everyone, of any age without the necessity of prior experience. Gaga was opened to the public in 2001, and today it is being taught to a growing group of people in the Suzanne Dellal Centre, and at additional places in the country and abroad.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self awareness through your body. Gaga is a new way for learning and strengthening your body, adding flexibility, stamina and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations and offers ways for their elimination. Gaga elevates instinctive motion, links conscious and subconscious movement. Gaga is an experience of freedom and pleasure. In a simple way, a pleasant place, comfortable close, accompanied by music, every person with himself and others.
"Gaga challenges multi layer tasks. It is fundamental for gaga users to be available for this challenge.
At once we, the users, can be involved in moving slowly through space while a quick action in our body is in progress. Those dynamics of movement are only a portion of what else might go on at the same time.
We are letting our mind observe and analyze many things at once, we are aware of the connection between effort and pleasure, we connect to the "sense of plenty of time?, especially when we move fast, we are aware of the distance between our body parts, we are aware of the friction between flesh and bones, we sense the weight of our body parts, we are aware of where we hold unnecessary tension, we let go only to bring life and efficient movement to where we let go...
We are listening, seeing, measuring, playing with the texture of our flesh, we might be silly, decorating our inside, we can laugh at ourselves.
We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination.
We learn to appreciate understatement and exaggeration, we discover the difference between joy and pleasure and use both to protect ourselves from injuring and hurting our body, we learn to apply our force in an efficient way and we learn to use "other" forces,
We become more delicate and we recognize the importance of the flow of energy and information through our body in all directions!
We discover the advantage of soft flesh and sensitive hands, we learn to connect to groove even when there is no music.
We become more aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all. We never look at ourselves in a mirror, there are no mirrors. We become better aware of our form. We connect to the sense of the endless of possibilities.
We explore multi dimensional movement, we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles, we are ready to snap, we are aware of what we are made of, we are aware of our explosive power and some times we use it.
We change our movement habits by finding new ones, we can be calm and alert at once.
We become available..."
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