{"id":41572,"date":"2017-01-15T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=41572"},"modified":"2017-01-16T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:35:10","slug":"scrutiny-batsheva-dance-company-decadance-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/01\/15\/scrutiny-batsheva-dance-company-decadance-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SCRUTINY | Batsheva Dance Company Draws Out The Curious With Decadance 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Batsheva Dance Company Decadance 2017 (Photo: Maxim Waratt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Batsheva Dance Company<\/h3>\n

Decadance 2017 \u00a0with Ohad Naharin (choreographer),\u00a0<\/em>at\u00a0The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Saturday, Jan. 14.<\/h3>\n

As part of their all new International Dance Collection Trilogy, The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, welcomed the Batsheva Dance Company<\/a> (from Israel) as their second guest last night to Toronto audiences.<\/p>\n

The Batsheva Dance Company performed \u2018Decadance 2017\u2019, which included a collection of work from Artistic Director\u2019s, Ohad Naharin\u2019s creations.<\/p>\n

True to form, the Batsheva Dance Company immediately threw the audience into the mix by inviting our eyes onto the stage and partaking in a twitch warm up \u2014 perhaps already part of our everyday lexicon albeit buried within our automatic thoughts and actions. Ohad Naharin\u2019s vision is \u2018to unlearn the process\u2019. Through choreography, he tests the audience \u2018to let go\u2019 just as he has encouraged his dancer\u2019s to not become a product of their immense dance training. In \u2018Decadance 2017\u2019, the audience is asked to look through a more human lens as oppose to a mechanized one in what we think a modern dance movement style should be.<\/p>\n

The curtain closes and reminds the audience that these scenes are blinks in time. The curtain rises, and we see the dancers suited and hatted in contrast to their flailing bodies, hectic voices scream out while clothes and shoes fly in hapless union. They are now longer walking the line; they have regressed and taken on animalistic tones as they chant along to \u2018Echad Mi Yodea\u2019 a traditional folk song arranged and performed by Ohad Naharin and Tractor\u2019s Revenge. The audience feels the meditation brewing in the room and in our chests.<\/p>\n

The music begins to lull the audience into a trance allowing your mind to inhale the visceral and direct movement of the dancer\u2019s bodies. The dance movement style is accessible and is comparable to an audience member drinking a fine wine or listening to music within the comfort of their home. Songs like \u2018The Pearl\u2019 from Harold Budd and Brian Eno and remixed by Maxim Waratt and Arab Folk Music arranged by Habib Alla Jamal and Khader Shama punctuate the dance experience with even further detail and richness.<\/p>\n

The dancer’s bodies take on different forms throughout \u2018Decadance 2017\u2019. At first loose and free, then the mixing in of traditional ballet sculptures and then a Gaga-esque movement style. The movement is matched in blanketed music that ranges from traditional Jewish folk songs, classical snippets and a handpicked \u2018audience only\u2019 dance off to a techno beated \u2018(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow\u2019 from Harold Arlen (adapted by Marusha).<\/p>\n

The \u2018You\u2019re Welcome\u2019 (from Brian Wilson performed by the Beach Boys) in closing, was Kumbaya in intent in summarizing the learning from the performance. The theme of \u2018not letting go\u2019 but rather being colonized by a new understanding is an easy take away from the Batsheva Dance Company\u2019s \u2018Decadance 2017\u2019. A harder goal would be \u2018being available\u2019 and incorporating that theme into the landscape of our daily lives. Naharin has raised the bar high.<\/p>\n

To truly appreciate Naharin\u2019s artistic vision, catch \u2018Mr. Gaga\u2019 a documentary from Mongrel Media (in March 2017) which provides a behind the scenes snapshot into his life, dance aesthetic and dreams for the Batsheva Dance Company.<\/p>\n

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