GAGA PEOPLE + Repertoire and Choreographic tasks

Gaga is the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and artistic director (1990-2018) of Batsheva Dance Company. 

The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. 

Gaga People Class - 60 minuts

Lee Brummer Repertoire- 90 minuts

Gaga/people classes offer a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve their flexibility and stamina, exercise their agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.

Throughout the class, participants are guided by a series of evocative instructions deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation. Rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.

This class gives dancers an opportunity to learn excerpts of Lee Brummers choreographic works and to apply their training in Gaga to the repertory.

Lee Brummer is an independent choreographer, international guest teacher and educator based in Sweden who frequently works both across Sweden and internationally. Lee is the Associate Director and co-founder of ilDance, an independent and international contemporary dance company and organisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Lee studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where she also completed her BA and teaching degree in 2007. She studied psychology, theatre and pilates alongside her career as a dancer and choreographer. In 2019 Lee became a certified Gaga teacher though the Gaga teachers training programme under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin, Bosmat Nossan, and Saar Harari. As a dancer Lee worked with the Bat Dor Dance Company (Israel), The Emanuel Gat Dance Company (Israel) and with various independent choreographers across Europe. She has worked as choreographer’s assistant in a variety of dance productions and musicals in Sweden and abroad.

Over the years Brummer has been teaching and working with companies such as: DV8, Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, National Dance Company Wales and Norrdans to name a few. She has been guest teaching at open professional classes, schools and universities worldwide and has been choreographing her own work within different international structures since 2010.