GAGA DANCERS CLASSES AND OHAD NAHARIN REPERTOIRE

Gaga is the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a world-renowned choreographer. Gaga classes are predicated on a deep activation of the body and physical sensations. We provide a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and the imagination. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. The research of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly.

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. The 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. 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. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness. 

Hani Sirkis was born in 1998 in Israel. She graduated from Thelma Yellin High School of Arts’ Dance Department. Hani also studied at the Shira Ganor Dance School. She received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship in the years 2013 and 2014 & won the Jeannette Ordman scholarship in 2015. Hani participated in Batsheva’s “Hamama” in 2014 and 2016. She also served in the IDF under the “Excellent Dancer” status.

Hani joined Batsheva – the Young Ensemble in 2016 and Batsheva Dance Company in 2018, where she danced until 2022.

Other than her work as a dancer and Gaga teacher, Hani also creates and performs as a drag queen under the stage name “Barbie Cute,” and manages the drag show “Kunty Klub.”

Gaga Photo: Ascaf