GAGA - Ohad Naharin's movement language

GAGA DANCERS: SATURDAY, 13th of August 2016, 2pm - 6pm
Open studio: 2.00 pm
Start: 2.15 pm
1h and 15 min GAGA DANCER class
1h Choreography
45 min Improvisation session

GAGA PEOPLE: SUNDAY, 14th of August 2016, 10.30 - 1.30pm
Open studio: 10.30 am
Start: 10.45 am
1h GAGA PEOPLE class
1h Improvisation

Each GAGA DANCER/PEOPLE class will be a completed circle of movement with music which allows participants to unfold during both hours anew into heights and depths, strength and softness, sounds and flavours on their journey in movement.

Booking essential.
TICKETS for both or each event individually:
GAGA DANCERS: £25
(GAGA DANCERS can purchase a ticket for both events: £30)
GAGA PEOPLE: £15

Get in touch if tickets are sold out, we can put you on the waiting list.

Other contact: Di: di_sol@yahoo.com or Batel: batia1111@googlemail.com

GAGA DANCERS class:
Gaga/dancers classes are open to professional dancers or advanced dance students ages 16+.
These classes are taught by dancers who have worked closely with Ohad Naharin. Gaga/dancers classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge.

GAGA PEOPLE class for all dancers at heart including the professional dancer to the one with no previous experience.

Both classes work with the layering of familiar movements with Gaga and presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places. Gaga deepens the dancers awareness of physical sensations and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures.

"We are moving without any stop, all together, to ride on ongoing movement that is moving inside our bodies constantly without using mirrors."

Both workshop will be taught by Natalia Iwaniec who was born in Poland and is currently a freelance dancer and teacher in Europe. After completing her degree in dance at the Dance College in Wroclaw in Poland, she studied a Master in Theatre in Krakow. Natalia became a qualified Gaga teacher in August 2012 and since then, has travelled throughout Europe and Israel leading classes and workshops in Gaga Technique.
She is also choreographing various works, recently create ” The Link” for dance students in STW in Poznan,Poland and “FORMal” in residency in Scenario Pubblico in Sicily.

LOCATION: The Dance Space, The Island, 1st Floor, Bridewell Street, 1st floor, Bristol, BS1 2LE

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Ohad Naharin about GAGA:
"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."