Batsheva Dance Company SADEH21
Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director and Choreographer TUE, NOV 4 / 8 PM / ARLINGTON THEATRE
photo: Gadi Dagon
Principal Sponsors: Jody M. & John P. Arnhold
Dancers Stephanie Amurao William Barry Ariel Cohen Or Schraiber Omri Drumlevich
Dance series sponsored in part by Margo & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund
Bret Easterling Maya Tamir Eri Nakamura Chen-Wei Lee Ori Ofri
About the Company Batsheva Dance Company has been critically acclaimed and popularly embraced as one of the foremost contemporary dance companies in the world. Together with its junior Batsheva Ensemble, the company boasts a roster of 34 dancers drawn from Israel and abroad. Batsheva Dance Company is Israel’s biggest company, maintaining an extensive performance schedule locally and internationally with over 250 performances and over 75,000 spectators per year. Hailed as one of the world’s preeminent contemporary choreographers, Ohad Naharin assumed the role of artistic director in 1990 and propelled the company into a new era with his adventurous curatorial vision and distinctive choreographic voice. The Batsheva dancers take part in the creative processes in the studio and create themselves in the annual project, “Batsheva Dancers Create,” sup-
Shamel Pitts Oscar Ramos Nitzan Ressler Ian Robinson Maayan Sheynfeld
Bobbi Smith Zina Zinchenko Adi Zlatin Bobbi Smith
ported by The Michael Sela Fund for Cultivation of Young Artists at Batsheva. Batsheva Dance Company was founded as a repertory company in 1964 by the Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, who enlisted Martha Graham as its first artistic adviser. Since 1989, Batsheva Dance Company has been in residence at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv.
Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director and Choreographer As artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company since 1990, Ohad Naharin has guided the company with an adventurous artistic vision and reinvigorated its repertory with his captivating choreography.
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