I samarbete med Kulturakademin Trappan och Högskolan för scen och musik
Gaga is a movement language which Ohad Naharin developed over the course of many years
and which is applied in daily practice and exercises by the Batsheva Dance Company
members. The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, everchanging
power of movement.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga
provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and 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.
The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and
unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple
way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with
himself and others. OBS! Undervisningen sker på engelska
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Hillel Kogan is a choreographer, dancer, dramaturge and teacher. He has been creating dance
works since 1996. For nine years he focused on short creations and was commissioned to
create works for the National Ballet of Portugal , Muza Dance Company, for the Shades of
Dance Festival at the Suzanne Dellal Center and others.
He teaches Gaga, repertoire (his own and other’s) and contemporary dance. He has
taught at companies such as Norway’s Carte Blanche, Gauthier Dance in Germany, IT Danza
in Spain and more. He also teaches dance to undergraduate students of the Jerusalem
Academy of Music and Dance.
In 2005, he received an invitation to work as Assistant Choreographer to Ohad Naharin. In
this role, Hillel has worked with the Batsheva Ensemble as well as various foreign troupes. In
parallel to this position, he has been an active member of the Israeli and international dance
communities as an independent choreographer. A number of his works have been celebrated,
featured and praised in international festivals and the media.
