Modern Ballet An adaptation of Peter Handke’s play Offending the Audience By Ohad Naharin "NAHARIN Alexandrinsky Imperial Ballet Theatre (established 1756)
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Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra "Congress"
[The] calligraphy of the body is stunning…
The New York Times
What a splendid Virus… as powerful as the eye of the storm…
Jerusalem Post
Comme un lâcher prise, un abandon de soi, cette création chorégraphique est une aspiration à la liberté.
Culturebox Franceinfo
Inspired by Naharin’s intricate movement vocabulary, which is full of tantalizing angles, disconnected hip thrusts, and slithering and sliding into seemingly impossible positions, the dancers became infected with an intensity of commitment — and the “virus” they created was a sensation.
Backstage USA
Naharin’s Virus is one of those performances that is ahead of its time. Even in a decade and a half after a premiere it looks stunningly ground-breaking and “different”.
When I first saw a performance of “Naharin’s Virus” over a decade ago, I knew that this ritualistic, insurrectionary dance was the way my own body wanted to move, if only it could be freed from gravity and decorum, Anna Della Subin says.
That is what Naharin did: he wasn’t just staging the play but liberating the dancers and letting them float freely in the sea of the sculpturesque creativity. The energy that literally radiates from the Batsheva dance here integrates with the deep meaning of the body language that was reinvented, but remained comprehensive and meaningful. Although plotless the show deeply penetrates into the audience’s soul. And probably not so much into the soul but into the self-awareness, self-consciousness of the audience.
The piece was based on and inspired by the text of Peter Handke, one of the most significant writers of the second half of the 20thcentury, the great rioter of the European New Wave. Offending the Audience was written back in the 1960-s and became one of the program works of the Neo-Avantgarde: without plot, action or even characters, capable to clear off “the exact moment in time at the exact point in space” out of the meaning imposed by words.
Text: Peter Handke (excluding the stories by the dancers)
Lighting Design: Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Sound Design: Frankie Lievaart
Recordings: Frankie Lievaart, Haim Laroz
Costume Design: Rakefet Levy
Suit Design: Zohar Shoef
Batsheva’s dancers participated in the original creation of this production
World Premiere: March 14, 2001, Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv
Duration: 60 minutes without intermission
Schedule for An adaptation of Peter Handke’s play Offending the Audience By Ohad Naharin "NAHARIN 2022
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