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Ohad Naharin was born on 22 June, 1952 in Kibbutz Mizra, Israel, is an Israeli choreographer and dancer. Discover Ohad Naharin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director to 2018
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 June 1952
Birthday 22 June
Birthplace Kibbutz Mizra, Israel
Nationality Israel

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Who Is Ohad Naharin's Wife?

His wife is Mari Kajiwara (1978 ~ 2001) Eri Nakamura (~ present)

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Children 1 daughter (with Eri Nakamura)

Ohad Naharin Net Worth

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1952

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.

Ohad Naharin was born in 1952 in Kibbutz Mizra.

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.

Nevertheless, Naharin did not start dancing until age 22.

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.

1978

In 1978, he married Mari Kajiwara, a native New Yorker and an Alvin Ailey dancer.

1990

He served as artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company from 1990; he stepped down in 2018.

In 1990, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director, there by launching the company into a new stage.

The company is international in nature, made up of individually unique dancers from Israel and other countries.

Dancers are encouraged to affirm their distinct creative gifts, as creators on their own.

Naharin's signature style and technique has developed during his time with Batsheva.

His style is "distinguished by stunningly flexible limbs and spines, deeply grounded movement, explosive bursts and a vitality that grabs a viewer by the collar."

His dancers do not rehearse in front of a mirror as this enables them to move away from self-critique and allows them to feel the movement from within.

Naharin is known to be a reserved and private person, and this is apparent in the studio as well.

He does not get angry or raise his voice, but comments constructively and calmly.

Since he has also been musically trained, Naharin sometimes collaborates on the compositions used in his pieces.

During his time directing and teaching the Batsheva Company, Naharin developed Gaga, a movement language and pedagogy that has defined the company's training and continues to characterize Israeli contemporary dance.

A practice that resists codification and emphasizes the practitioner's somatic experience, Gaga presents itself as a movement language rather than a movement 'technique'.

Classes consist of a teacher leading dancers through an improvisational practice based on a series of images described by the teacher.

Naharin explains that such a practice is meant to provide a framework or a "safety net" for the dancers to use to "move beyond familiar limits".

The descriptions that are used to guide the dancers through the improvisation are intended to help the dancer initiate and express movement in unique ways from parts of the body that tend to be ignored in other dance settings.

One example is the image of "Luna", which refers to the fleshy, moon-shaped regions between fingers and toes.

In keeping with Gaga's insistence on moving through sensing and imagining, mirrors are discouraged in rehearsal spaces.

Naharin's works have been commissioned by the Frankfurt Ballet, Opéra National de Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Sydney Dance Company, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Rambert Dance Company, Compañia Nacional de Danza, Cullberg Ballet, Finnish National Ballet,, , Bavarian State Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Royal Danish Ballet.

He seeks to create movement that is universal yet personal.

He always has a clear social and political conscience in his works, but his dances are not meant to be political.

He finds storytelling of suffering and the world's problems boring in comparison to a person's ability to use texture and multi-layered movement.

He contrasts physical explosiveness with stillness, taking an interest in contrasts, edges, and extremes, which creates vital distance and space in dances.

His philosophy, shared with many who devote their lives to choreography, is that everyone should dance.

Deca Dance highlights many excerpts from his previous works.

Naharin says himself, "Deca Dance is not a new work. It is more about reconstruction: I like to take pieces or sections of existing works and rework it, reorganize it and create the possibility to look at it from a new angle. It always teaches me something new about my work and composition. In Deca Dance I took sections from different works. It was like I was telling only either the beginning, middle or ending of many stories but when I organized it the result become as coherent as the original if not more."

In Max, "Mr. Naharin’s theatrical ingredients are space, movement and light."

A critic comments, "In this tremendously potent work, there are few obvious displays of emotion, yet Max is full of imagery that slips between real life and dance in fleeting flashes."

2001

In 2001, she died of cancer at age 50.

He is now married to Eri Nakamura, a Batsheva dancer and costume designer with whom he has a daughter.

Naharin is currently the House Choreographer of Batsheva Dance Company.

2018

He served as Artistic Director as well until 2018.