The new season of the performances of the Batsheva Dance Company opened with the show Decadance #21, which included the premiere of 'Zorn'- a short piece to the sounds of original music by John Zorn, created by Ohad Naharin with students from Juilliard.
Ohad Naharin, Batsheva's in-house choreographer, created the first Decadance in 2000, marking a decade of his work with the company, and it included ten excerpts from the works he had created for the company up to that point.
Since then, every season, Naharin returns to Decadance and presents varied adaptations of iconic passages from his works, alongside passages from new works, whose meticulous editing remakes them anew each time.
Naharin explains that the Decadance show deals with the possibility that creation can be perpetual, always in the present, and never final. It is an opportunity to re-examine the diverse materials of the company, to dive into them, to manipulate them, to view them with a fresh look, but never in the same way.
Among the large crowd visiting the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, where the show was staged were: Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai; Gili Navot, Batsheva's Artistic Director; Dina Eldor, CEO of the troupe; Zvi Ziv, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Batsheva Dance Company; Mickey Kenny, Chairman of the Public Council; Professor Michael Sela, Honorary President of the Public Council and Sara Sela; Tamar Yasur, Chairman of the dance company's Circle of Friends and others.
